Last week was all about grading papers and putting finishing touches on a grant I am helping write to teach Language Arts teachers how to blog. So I feel a bit behind on my blogging. Now I am on the road. Tomorrow though I hope to be posting original content– my IM Interview with [...]
The other day ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin did a count of 380 think tank interviews at National Public Radio in 2005. That’s more than one a day.
Today we learn in a Business Week article that Jack Abramoff was paying off think tank members to write op-ed pieces favorable to his lobbying efforts. [...]
Chris Waddle, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellow, wants everyone to know about an upcoming conference and the new Master’s in Community Journalism program that will be taught by University of Alabama professors at the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama.
Here is the good news:
The partners have covered the cost of tuition and [...]
Want to see what happens when you get Editorial Cartoonists mad, then go to here . Here is what an Editor & Publisher story says in part:
A note on EditorialCartoonists.com states: “‘Black Ink Monday,’ a nonviolent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is a response to the Tribune Company’s recent elimination of [...]
Here is the press release from a new study just released by The Project for Excellence in Journalism entitled: “Extra! Extra!”
The study found that readers of the new commuter tabloids will be more likely get a basic outline of the news about a broader range of topics during their subway ride to work than [...]
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.