This from Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the New York Times, as quoted by Jeff Jarvis, who is blogging from a panel on journalism ethics at the ASNE conference:
“The scariest thing of all of last year for me… wasn’t Jayson Blair…. The scariest part was that the people we lied about didn’t bother […]
The problems of Jack Kelley and USA TODAY report just released stresses broken communicaton within the newsroom. I would have liked to have seen how sources and audiences members could have gotten their grievances better heard by management. Hopefully, when fixes are made at USA TODAY, that will be part of the fix. Here […]
Excellent post by Tim Porter, in fact, it’s real journalism by a blogger, on why newspaper newsrooms remain so white even though there is an ample supply of minority communication graduates.
Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine proposes starting a Citizens’ Media Association.
More on Diebold e-voting security problems, this time from the Oakland Tribune (remember this is a story that the web has been covering, at least up to now, better than the mainstream papers. I have written about it here). The Tribune writes:
Other documentation obtained by the Tribune shows that the latest approved versions of Diebold’s […]
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.