It is official, the Knight Foundation is helping underwrite the new Master’s Degree in community journalism program at the Anniston Star in Alabama.
Nice part is that students who get accepted when the program begins in 2006 get a free ride.
The story is below, unfortunately, it costs $4 a month to get into the [...]
Reuters has posted short video cuts of speeches from George Bush and John Kerry on various issues. You can pick an issue and see what each says.
This from the Civic Journalism Interest Group (CJIG) at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC):
The AEJMC will hold its 2005 convention in San Antonio, Texas, next summer — and it’s time to start rounding up ideas for panels and programs. The deadline for proposals is the end of the day [...]
In an earlier blog I mentioned Jeff Jarvis’s Op-Ed piece on the possibilities for good that the Rather, National Guard, Bush memo can actually do to lead us towards issue oriented journalism.
Jarvis himself is giving it a stab with his new blog series he calls appropriately enough Issues2004. He says in part:
I’ll write my wish [...]
Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine has an excellent op-ed piece on bloggers and their influence on media. The piece grows out of the Dan Rather, CBS, Bush memos but points us to the real issue here. Will blogs do better or will they be a channel amplifying our most sordid selves?
He writes in part:
As a [...]
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.