Expanding the Definition of News Media Trust is a conversation led by Jay Rosen at the San Antonio Wake Up Call Conference. You can read the whole discussion at the conference’s Final Report page.
Here are experts from the conversation with Charles Lewis, Neil Chase, Dan Gillmor and Rosen:
Rosen, professor at New York University and blogger [...]
With its half serious, half frivolous Commutants blogging exercise the Atlanta Journal-Constitution opened itself to new citizen journalism possibilities. I share my advice on the paper’s opinion pages today.
Its editorial writers looked for alternative ways to get to work and blogged about their experiences, while asking citizens to comment. Here is part of what [...]
Anyone who has been reading this blog, knows that Phil Meyer, author of the Vanishing Newspaper, gave newspapers an early Wake Up Call, by talking about the death spiral. Unfortunately, now it sounds like a prophesy. However, Clyde Bentley, University of Missouri professor of convergence journalism, sees it not as a death, but as [...]
Steve Outing says he doesn’t think citizen journalists and photographers will continue to work for free and gives media companies some compensation tips.
I would recommend that people look at some open-source software models to learn what motivated the hackers.
Witt note: In the midst of our big Wake Up Call Week I will [...]
Are the news media in an irreversible decline? Can quality journalism be saved? Tune in all this week to hear what top thinkers said at our San Antonio conference: A Wake Up Call: Can Quality and Trust Save Journalism?
Starting here today we’ll be posting a series of edited transcripts, complete with MP3 files, taken from [...]
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.