At our Fusion Power conference, Mary Lou Fulton talked about the Northwest Voice, a participatory journalism newspaper project, and said if someone wants to submit a story about a little girl selling lemonade to fight MS, why not find a place for it to run. Here’s her logic:
I think one of the things that [...]
Still run into people who are not sure what a blog is or does? Send them to this Fortune article entitled: Why There’s No Escaping the Blog
So the New York Times runs a story about the tsunami and bloggers and, of course, must ask: But Is It Journalism?
The answer from Xeni Jardin, one of the four co-editors of BoingBoing.net, is:
…people online often argued about whether blogs would replace mainstream media. The question is as meaningless, she said, as asking “will [...]
An interesting development is Wisconsin. Worried that lobbyists out number legislators, people from all parts and parties in Wisconsin are invited to set their own agenda at the first “People’s Legislature” on January 4, 2005.
This from the Madison Wiconsin Capitol Times:
Already nearly 500 people have registered for the daylong event – it [...]
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, based on findings of a just released study, will soon be providing TV stations training on how to make local news global and global news local.
The study concludes in part:
We have learned that global perspective coverage can be presented at nominal cost. It does not require international travel, [...]
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.