Key Quote from this IM Interview with Dr. Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte:
Given the track record historically of censorship by omission
and the ongoing distortion of news about minority populations, leaders and issues, the mono-perspective content, the press has long failed its mission to inform.
Dr. Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte, an associate professor at the University of [...]
An article in Thursday’s New York Times, “5 leading institutions start journalism education effort” describes a $6 million effort for five leading journalism programs (Columbia, Berkeley, Northwestern, USC, and Harvard) to “revitalize journalism education” and address the crisis in journalism.
Journalism educators clearly have a stake in the outcome of restoring trust in the media, and [...]
Wade Roush, senior editor for Technology Review, has created a blog for an article he is writing on on continuous social computing. The full article is now posted on the Continuous Computing Blog and readers are commenting on the article to help shape and inform what is eventually published in the magazine. He’s using pop-up [...]
Yesterday, the Project for Excellence in Journalism released this study THE GENDER GAP: Women Are Still Missing as Sources for Journalists. One way to lessen the gender gap may be for women to run newsrooms.
Should women be in charge of newspapers? If you agree with Cynthia Gorley Millers arguments, there is good [...]
Today the Project for Excellence in Journalism posted a study on how men dominate the sources in news stories. Tomorrow, learn in a PJNet IM Interview Leonard Witt held with Cynthia Miller, how if women ran the newsroom, the problem could be solved.
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.