My public journalism workshops in Ecuador are paying off with nice dividends in Ecuador. One group is already considering using my advice on making Vlogs to have Ecuadorian women tell their own stories. Other groups are seeking to put together a national election project and as I mentioned earlier Eric Samson has set up a [...]
The J-Lab at the University of Maryland, announced the finalists for the $10,000 Batten Award, “honoring them for setting new standards for interactive journalism, advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in their communities.”
The press release provides this information about the finalists:
The View, Interactive Magazine Online (IMOL)
A [...]
Sometimes things are just meant to be. As is my introduction to you of Gustavo Pérez Ramírez, a human rights columnist for La Hora in Quito, Ecuador, and now, thanks to some interesting circumstances, a human rights blogger.
Recently I was in Ecuador giving public and citizen journalism workshops. My son was visiting and he [...]
Over at Jay Rosen’s PressThink, Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, writes in part:
the role and acceptance by our state of the media as a legitimate and necessary institution is weaker now than ever before.
He prefaced that remark by saying:
there are haunting similarities between the [...]
Eric Samson, a journalist and professor at La Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, launched a blog centered around public and citizen journalism in Latin America. The blog still needs a little fine tuning, but the information is there and Samson says he is dedicated to making it a vital resource for Latin America [...]
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.