Tom Mangans key quote: Corporate execs would love to be told, “look at blogs, they’re all unedited and people love them. Think how much more money we’d make if we weren’t paying all these editors.”
Tom Mangan is a features desk copy editor at the San Jose Mercury News and is well known [...]
The Japan Media Review, hosted by the University of Southern California, reprinted Public Journalism: Lessons from Japan by Kate Parry, which was first published here at PJNet.org on January 6, 2004. Congratulations Kate and thanks to Japan Media Review editor Michelle Nicolosi for giving Kate’s piece even more exposure.
Every citizen’s a reporter. Journalists aren’t some exotic species, they’re everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others.
That’s one paragraph in a declaration posted four years ago at OhmyNews, the South Korean online news site which today claims it has some 30,000 citizens reporters [...]
The World Editors Forum has a launched a pilot weblog for an exchange of ideas among top editors worldwide.
The World Editors Forum describes itself as:
…exclusively dedicated to senior newsroom editors. It is a platform where you can share ideas, experiences and new initiatives on how to defend editorial excellence in the face of shrinking [...]
I am looking for the names of any newspapers that have sponsored significant civic journalism projects attempting to foster solutions-oriented public deliberation on the Iraq war and/or the current presidential primaries.
Thanks in advance for any help this group can offer.
Peter Parisi
Associate Professor
Department of Film & Media Studies
Hunter College
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.