Wisconsin’s two-year public journalism project Building the New Wisconsin Economy plans a major forum this week.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal the project is “designed to engage the public and stimulate a high-profile, ongoing public discussion about the importance of economic development in our state.”
This just in from the Boston Herald:
Jeannine Guttman, editor and vice president of The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, was named Thursday as this year’s winner of the Judith W. Brown Spirit of Journalism Award.
The award, presented Thursday during the annual convention of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors at the Radisson […]
On Tuesday we ran Part I of Jay Rosen’s advice on how to write a blog. These remarks come from a transcript at our Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference. Here Rosen continues his discussion on how he blogged from the Democratic National Conventon–now in day two.
Rosen Blogs the […]
Jeff Jarvis is the lead off interview in a two-month series of interviews The Future of Digital Media at Corante.
Jarvis says in part:
So now anyone can control, create, market, distribute, find, and interact with anything they want. The barrier to entry to media is demolished. Media, always a one-way pipe, now becomes an […]
Here is advice from Jay Rosen on how to have an effective webblog. The advice is a transcript from a talk he gave at our Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Particpatory Journalism conference. His talk follows advice from Warren Kinsella, whose information we ran last week. Kinsella said keep your blogs short and […]
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.