Just a tad cold for Georgia — The Marietta Town Square
As far as ice storms go this one is fairly tame, at least as of noon in Marietta, Georgia. On the day my wife and I were married back in December 9, 1972 in Hamden, Connecticut—-now that was an ice storm. You could hardly walk [...]
Last night when I heard an ice storm was about to hit the Atlanta metro region, I charged my digital camera battery so it would be ready. I wanted to find a public site and post some photos.
Well, the Atlanta Journal Constitution has set up a link on its home page to send photos [...]
It wasn’t too long ago that Jack Shafer, Slate’s media critic, was declaring public journalism dead. Of course, we public journalists were put on the defensive, and I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, saying we were very much alive.
Now Shafer is going after bloggers, but in a different way. He has [...]
Poynter Online has two articles on the problems and potentials that newspapers face in making economics work in this new era of citizen journalism and online news.
Dan Gillmor:
We’re not close to figuring out the business model either for tomorrow’s citizen journalists or today’s mass media as they make the transition to what’s coming. But we’d better, or society is the loser.
That quote is from a three-part series at Jay Rosen’s site on what participants learned at the Blogging, Journalism [...]
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.