In a few weeks I will be giving two introductory blogging workshops on my campus at Kennesaw State University. One thing I wanted to mention was the power of using blogs, even if you have no readers, as a resource to tuck away ideas. They come ready built with links which mean easier footnote searching, [...]
By Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, joins an expanding chorus in warning that “The sovereignty of Big Journalism is eroding.”
Tim Porter at First Draft has been on a roll the last couple of weeks with excellent blogs on saving journalism, including:
Should We Blame the Readers? Not If We Want to Survive
Explode the Newsroom: Six Ways to Rebuild the System
Atlanta’s Focused Training Model
This from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story on the Harvard Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference:
The number of Americans reading blogs jumped 58% in 2004 to an estimated 32 million people, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project, with about 11 million looking to political blogs for news during the presidential campaign.
I am really impressed with Dan Gillmor’s essay on the four elements that make the news objectivity argument moot.
They are: Thoroughness, Accuracy, Fairness, and Transparency.
For more on objectivity see my post earlier this week.
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.