Steven Johnson, one of the more interesting thinkers of our time, has a wonderful column in Discover on why new digital technologies will not only help people out in the sticks communicate with each other, but will be even more powerful for folks in big cities.
He builds his argument around a new social networking [...]
Steve Outing, in an Editor & Publisher piece entitled Modernizing the Editorial Page, gives us great examples at the Dallas Morning News and Seattle Post-Intelligencer of where citizen journalism fulfills the civic journalism mission. His examples play into our continuing discussion about the intersection of civic and citizen journalism.
Here is part of what [...]
In continuation of our discussion about the intersection of civic and citizen journalism, here is some historical perspective:
This from Sharon Iorio:
As required, the Civic Journalism Interest Group (CJIG) applied to AEJMC for Interest Group renewal in 2002 and was approved. You can read…for yourselves to see if you think the citizen aspect or [...]
Eric Samson, a French news correspondent and professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, has been blogging regularly about public journalism at his Spanish language site Periodismo Público América Latina. I like the fact that I helped get him started. Anyway, he blogs about an article in the French Liberation that focuses on citizen journalism. [...]
Jan Schaffer’s J-Lab, New Voices launches J-Learning, to help citizens produce their own media. Here is an explanation at its website:
J-Learning is a companion to J-Labs New Voices project. It is designed to help individuals, civic groups and school groups jumpstart their own community media projects. It offers basic training in Web site [...]
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.