If you are a traditional newsroom journalist, you have to love Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson answer when asked about a business plan for the paper’s new online Town Square experiment. He told Poynter Online interviewer Bill Mitchell:
Business plan? We don’t need no stinkin’ business plan!
If we drive eyeballs to the site, […]
An interesting phenomena is playing out with the Social Security debate in ways that would have been impossible prior to the rise of the blogging class.
Academic critics, and some public journalists, have long said that journalism objectivity is a suspect notion. Here for example is scholar Herbert Gans in an online conversation with Jay […]
This is really for those living in the Altanta Metro region. I am hosting an AEJMC academic conference here at Kennesaw State University on Feb. 11-12, 2005. As part of the weekend I am also hosting a symposium that is open to the public. Here are the details:
Journalism and the Public
Restoring the Trust
Have an […]
eMediaWire, an online public relations newswire, reports:
TakeBackTheNews.com Brings News-Sharing Community Online:
New website launched to serve and involve news consumers. TakeBackTheNews.com represents grassroots participatory journalism effort.
Editor’s Note: There is an interesting comment here from Brendan Watson.
The Massless Media, The Atlantic Monthly article by William Powers, which got me into a discussion with the Atlantic’s online director Eric Westby, is now online.
Its subhead is:
With the mass media losing their audience to smaller, more targeted outlets, we may be headed for an era of noisy, contentious press reminiscent of the […]
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.