The New York Times today has a story on how weblogging critics might or might not be influencing the press. Here’s a quote from Jay Rosen, chair of the New York University journalism department and keeper of the blog PressThink:
“The traditional players, including the press, have lost some of the control or exclusive control [...]
Mark Glaser at the Online Journalism Review has an excellent overview of what’s happening in citizen media on the hyperlocal level. A must read for those interested in citizen journalism.
Dan Gillmor points us to a citizen written Wikinews proposal from the folks who created the Wikipedia.
Today I hosted eight Moldavian visitors to the United States and told them the story about public journalism and about how things are changing rapidly in the world of mass media. One of the visitors at the end of my 90 minute talk and blog demonstration asked if the end was in sight for the [...]
Get your applications ready. Some 20 micro-local journalism projects nationwide will be eligible to received grants of up to $17,000 in start-up seed money, according to a press release from the J-Lab at the University of Maryland. Its says in part:
The Institute for Interactive Journalism will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures [...]
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.