Looking for a new model for citizen produced news, see the open source newspaper that The Bakersfield Californian has started. Below is a report from Mary Lou Fulton, Publisher of The Northwest Voice, and New Product Development Manager, The Bakersfield Californian. She will provide more information on this experiment at the Exploring the Fusion Power [...]
The South Carolina journalist and libertarian, John Lofton (1919-1990), argued persuasively that American newspapers champion First Amendment values “based more on self interest than on principle.” In other words, strange as it seems, our newspapers fight for freedom of expression mostly when it helps one of their own (for example, in the Pentagon Papers [...]
David Akin, broadcast, print and blogging journalist, has agreed to moderate the Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism, August 3, 2004 in Toronto.
Akin is one more of a long line of high-powered journalists, educators and bloggers, who will be actively involved in this highly interative conference. Join them, register now.
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Never judge a book by its movie, someone once quipped, but perhaps there was no Fahrenheit 9/11 back then. I watched this searing tragi-comic documentary tonight with a few Kennesaw State University colleagues, a day after my favorite radio talk show host said it had collected $56 million in two weeks.
Wasn’t I the [...]
Help us build a road map to the future of journalism.
Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon, Jay Rosen, and partners Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman, are all bloggers and cutting-edge thinkers when it comes to public and participatory journalism. They all will be in the thick of the very interactive Exploring the Fusion Power [...]
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.