Earlier I wrote about free access to WiFi and in the comments Matt Cook pointed me to The Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Directory. It’s a good resource for free hot spots.
Then I found that Austin, Texas, has a free WiFi movement underway at The Partners in Free WiFi , also the Austin Free-Net and finally Austin Wireless [...]
See Jeff Jarvis’s thoughts on starting The Center for Citizens’ Media with New York University.
Key IM Interview Quote: In the 1960s when newspapers first began hiring journalists of color it was because they could not get to one of the biggest stories facing the country, the Black Power Movement, without black reporters. Today, we have so many other options for getting our news that if an organization does not [...]
Jennie Buckner, Vice President and Editor of the The Charlotte Observer, today announced her plans to retire July 1. Buckner was an early advocate for public journalism and led the paper to a Batten Award. Of course, as with many public journalists there were moments of controversy especially with the “Your Voice, Your Vote” project. [...]
In an Editor & Publisher article Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., New York Times publisher:
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…talked about the Internet as a news medium that’s changed the speed at which news has to be reported. While Sulzberger commented that it created the “fascinating dilemma” of trying to figure out how to keep up with the technology, at the [...]
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.