One of my favorite blogs for staying up to date on interesting developments in new media is Poynter’s E-media Tidbits group blog. I’ve been struck the past few weeks by how much the content on the blog is now about citizen journalism. The convergence between new developments in technology and “grassroots journalism” as former tech [...]
This is worth a read:
Pew Research Center survey has shown the public to be broadly critical of the press, yet still favorable in its overall view of news organizations themselves. In fact, the public has long been two-minded in its views of the news media faulting the press in a variety of ways, [...]
Clyde Bentley at the University of Missouri’s My Missourian visited Korea and OhMyNews and writes about what he saw. He writes in part:
The common wisdom among many Internet hands is that a glance at Korea will give one a good idea of what technology will look like in the United States in three to [...]
My wife Diana and I took a bike ride on the Greenways from Vienna to Prague. On our return I made a mini travelogue, plus I put together a little academic spoof.
These little two-minute vlogs are much more meaningful to me than just a simple slide show. Plus they help bring out the amateur [...]
This from the Korea Times:
Citizen reporters from around the world who contribute to a local online newspaper will hold a forum in Seoul starting today to discuss the future potential of online journalism and citizen participatory journalism.
Organized by OhmyNews (www.ohmynews.com), the first International Citizen Reporters Forum will take place until Sunday at the Convention and [...]
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.