Adrian Holovaty, creator of ChicagoCrime.org maps and now editor of editorial innovations for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, is subject of an Editor & Publisher Q & A on “everything from the citizen-journalism movement to open-source software development.”
Key issue keeps coming back, newspapers don’t react very well to innovation even though talented folks want to help, [...]
Went to my first Atlanta Media Bloggers Association meeting Thursday night and was pleased that I did. There were just 15 or so of us, but we were coming to it from all different angles. Sort of a microcosm of the blogging world. There was Grayson Hurst Daughters who is looking for a new [...]
ConvergeSouth is a two-day citizen media, bloggers conference scheduled for October 7-8, 2005 in Greensboro, N.C. Many of the big names like Jay Rosen, Chris Nolan and Hoder will be making presentations. Here is a recent article about it.
To David Carr, Media Critic of the New York Times:
After I read your defense of newspapers in The New York Times, I turned to the Wall Street Journal story saying that Yahoo “signed nine new columnists to write for its Yahoo Finance site and plans to hire as many as 30.”
Now compare that to last [...]
Last week I mentioned an editorial about civic and citizen journalism in the Philippines. Now just like the USA they are trying to make sense of how blogging, emailing and all the rest figure into good journalism. Here is an editorial in the Sun.Star Cebu that ends:
It is now up to both the public 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.