It seems at the end of each week, I provide an overview of something of interest from Jay Rosen’s PressThink. So to be consistent here is an interview he did with Bill Grueskin, Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal Online. It is a conversation mostly about how newspapers might find the proper fit [...]
George Cisneros, one of the panelist at the Wake Up Call conference on Aug. 9, is rushing a deadline in San Antonio “to get free or low-cost Internet access to some of the city’s poorer residents,” according to a San Antonio Express article written in early April.
Cisneros told the Express: “This is going to [...]
I am watching a C-Span speech by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of the News Corporation, at today’s American Society of Newspaper Editors conference. He restated the dire warning about the vanishing newspapers that you have been reading in these pages often.
I am pulling this quote from Jeff Jarvis’ Buzzmachine. (Go to Buzzmachine to [...]
The Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust website has just been launched. Of special interest is the conference A Wake Up Call: Can Trust and Quality Save Journalism? It’s on August 9, 2005 in San Antonio.
It’s got a great line-up already including Jay Rosen, Peggy Kuhr, Dan Gillmor, Philip Meyer, Dori Maynard, Jeff [...]
Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC Global News Division, tells HypergeneMediaBlog, in an email interview:
I believe there will always be a place for editorial judgement to be applied the essence of the brand value of major news operations but participation from our audience or users is increasingly important in terms of earning [...]
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.