Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor, Mercury News Technology Columnist and blogger supreme, will be part of the program at the Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference August 3, 2004, Toronto. It precedes the AEJMC Convention.
His attendence will in sync with the release of his new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism [...]
Fewer journalists today see the press as too cynical. And, compared with five years ago, fewer also see journalists as out of touch with their audiences.
Both of these are areas that reform movements such as public journalism–which was concerned with trying to reconnect journalists and the public–focused on.
That’s a direct quote from commentary addressing [...]
The Poynter Institute has an online seminar that you can register for at no cost and listen to the discussion. The online seminar was held on May 20, 2004. It deals with the gruesome photos that are being generated around the world. The effort is to help journalists make wise decisions when faced with horrific [...]
Camera/Iraq is a site every journalist, academic, and citizen interested in photojournalism should be watching. It is already filled with useful commentary.
Here is how it describes itself:
Camera/Iraq is a special project of Carleton College’s Cinema & Media Studies Department and Ratchet Up to gather articles, commentary and photographs about public and personal image practices [...]
Jack Schafer has an interesting piece at Slate about electronic newspapers. He especially likes Florida Today and The Guardian for their usability. They are worth looking at as are the Washington Post and New York Times demos. Downloading the entire New York Times to your computer takes two minutes. A free sample is available, if [...]
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.