Live webcast Disrupting the News Industry Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism, Friday, April 30, 2004, 10:30 am — 12:00 pm. (PDT). Presented by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
Panelists include:
Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch
Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance LLC media consulting firm
Dan Gillmor, columnist for the […]
In the near future you will be able to download the equivalent of digital Happy Meal Toys, when you go into your favorite McDonald’s. It’s a part of, what Greg Waring, director of McDonald’s business development, calls the “the de-plasticizing” of McDonald’s restaurants. I just heard him speak at the Go Mobile or Go Home […]
Yesterday I wrote about a woman who lost her job because of a photo she took of coffins containing the remains of American soliders killed in Iraq. It appeared in the Seattle Times.
Today The New York Times and other papers across the country ran similar photos. It happened not because of an aggressive media, […]
IBM now has its equivalent of the Media Center’s We Media report, but the IBM’s Media and Entertainment 2010 white paper is way more radical in its thinking. It predicts by 2010 we’ll have wide open media, reacting quickly and nimbly in a digital world of micropayments. Here are some of my excerpts from the […]
See J.D. Lasica’s post Woman loses job over coffins photo. He uses the story as an example of the power–and for the woman, I would say, pitfalls–of citizen journalism.
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.