Alicia Parlette, 23, is a successful recent graduate of our journalism school, the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Alicia, who is working as a copy editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. As she dealt with the shock and endless rounds of […]
Manuel Chavez, writing a report for the Center for Communications and Community (C3) at UCLA, says when it comes to citizen participation in the news media “the model for change is in Mexico not the United States.”
Chavez writes that citizen participation has roots going back to 1991 at Grupo Reforma, a family-owned organization […]
This being a day to celebrate the ideals that impelled the creation of America, I started the day trying to get through the reproduction of the Declaration of Independence published in The New York Times. I was struck first by the Founding Father’s sense of obligation to explain why they were making an independent declaration: […]
Doc Searls has an interesting post on his IT Garage blog, called AdTension. He’s writing about the ability of users to block multiple types of online advertising, and how, to be successful in the online environment, advertisers need to understand that relationships with consumers must be built on something besides counting eyeballs. He writes:
We need […]
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.