In September Chasqui, the Latin American magazine devoted to communication, ran the hard copy of an essay by Francisco Seoane Perez and me entitled in English: Tomorrowâs Winning Journalism Formula: News for the Public and by the Public.
The article is in Spanish and finally has been posted online. So if you read [...]
Will the Public Broadcasting Service be changing its name to Public Service Mediaâalong with changing the way it does business? Recently PBS released the 133-page Digital Future Initiative report by a panel co-chaired by James Barksdale and Reed Hundt in which Public Service Media was the theme. To find out what it might [...]
The Twin Cities Daily Planet is up and running thanks to a grant from the New Voices project at the J-Lab, the University of Marylandâs Institute for Interactive Journalism. Incidentially, the New Voices’ second round of grant proposals are due by Feb. 8, 2006. They will be awarding 10 grants in the new year for [...]
Key Quote: “Eventually newspapers are going to realize that their best weapon in the competitive journalistic war is the editorial cartoonist. It’s going to make economic sense and journalistic sense.”
–Clay Bennett, president, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Last week editorial cartoonists let the Tribune Company have it with their Black Ink Monday protest against the [...]
Join the discussion at the “Seigenthaler and Wikipedia- Lessons and Questions.” case study produced by Committee of Concerned Journalists. It says in part:
The case raises some interesting questions. What does the controversy say about the Web as a platform for information delivery? What does it say about Wikipedia itself? What lessons can journalists take [...]
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.