Why did I hear that Vioxx was dangerous in July while sitting at a cafeteria in Spain, but the rest of the world is only catching up with the story now?
In June I got this rather spontaneous and extremely painful inflammation of my sternoclavicular joint. My doctors here in the States put me [...]
The first Restoring the Trust IM Interview I ran yesterday with Buzz Merritt did as I hoped it would. It got thoughtful people like Tim Porter of First Draft and Dan Suwyn, managing editor at the Savannah Morning News, to expand upon how journalists can get back the public’s trust. Both are excellent reads.
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This interview with Davis Buzz Merritt, a founder of the public journalism movement, is the first in a series of Leonard Witt IM Interviews I plan to do over the next year under the heading Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust. It is part of a bigger project I am in the midst of [...]
Public radio’s Marketplace, American RadioWorks series called Power Trips is journalism at its best. In great detail it showcases which of our federal elected legislators are taking the most and least travel freebies from all sorts of organizations.
The winner for my state Georgia is Senator Saxby Chambliss. On one seven-day free trip to Italy he [...]
I received an email request for advice from Tom White, a publisher launching Social Enterprise Reporter: News and Innovations for Nonprofit Entrepreneurs. He writes:
I am seeking referrals to public journalism models for business journalists. Have the tenets of public journalism been translated and used successfully in business, trade or commercial publishing? I am launching 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.