Jeff Jarvis has left Newhouse’s Advance.net apparently to get closer to the citizen publishing movement. Dan Gillmor made the break from Mainstream Media earlier. Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, is thinking how to incorporate citizen journalism into what he does.
So what does all this mean? Find out at our A Wake Up Call conference [...]
Hideya Terashima, a reporter at Japan’s The Kahoku Shimpo, has a new book coming out in Japan entitled: “Civic Journalism Challenges: American Regional Newspapers Connecting Communities.” The book is in Japanese.
Terashima, who came to Kennesaw State University as a charter member of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet), writes:
I’m proud of it being the [...]
A couple of weeks ago at BlogNashville, G. Patton “Pat” Hughes, the publisher of Paulding.com, sat down next me at dinner. I live in Cobb County, Georgia, and Paulding County is right next door. It is a little more rural, but also caught in the metro Atlanta population explosion.
As it happens, unbeknownst to me, Hughes [...]
In a few weeks, I will be going to Ecuador to give a public journalism workshop. In doing my research, I came across this quote by Jack Shafer, Slate media critic, who, back in 2000, taking a poke at Jay Rosen and public journalism, wrote:
…if Rosen really wants to frame his debate–and his call to [...]
This from Editor & Publisher:
When Comments Get Out of Hand,
VenturaCountyStar.com Pulls the Plug
The story begins:
So much for participatory journalism. The Ventura County Star in Ventura, Calif., announced today that it has shut off comments on its Web site because the tone of those comments had grown too vicious and incendiary.
In the beginning, [...]
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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.