New free tools are here for Mac users and will be available soon for Windows that will allow anyone to build a worldwide, or community based, Internet TV channel. This from a Boston Phoenix article :
WorcesterÂ’s Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a small cadre of young activists and programmers, … has developed an open-source, [...]
The New York Times ombudsman has posted some comments he has been receiving from the public about the Judith Miller case. But in my mind, it is being done as if it were on paper 20 years ago. This is a digital age. It is a conversation. Get over the letter to the editor mentality [...]
If you were the editor, what would you do if a part-time copy editor attended the September peace march in Washington, D.C.? The St. Paul Pioneer Press suspended Tim Mahoney for three days and let him know that next time he would be fired.
Here is a part of a City Pages story:
He was suspended [...]
Steve Outing at Editor & Publisher says a lot of the citizen journalism material is simply dull. Then he gives suggestions to editors on how to improve the quality of citizen journalism.
Here are some highlights of an article worth reading:
“If you don’t have a well-developed strategy to populate the site with content of interest [...]
This from the Online Journalism Review:
Forget what you might have heard: Journalists can earn money publishing online. We’ve started a wiki for OJR readers to share tips on how they do it.
It adds:
This article is designed to help journalists learn how to make extra money, or even a full-time wage, by publishing independently online. [...]
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.