Johnnic Communications, the company that owns the Sunday Times of South Africa is launching reporter.co.za, an online citizen newspaper, where citizen writers will be paid nominal fees for contributions.
This from a press release:
reporter.co.za is managed by Johncom Digital Media, the electronic arm of Johnnic Communications. Its virtual newsroom will be led by a [...]
I received this requested from Stjepan Malovic, director of the International Center for Education of Journalists, Dubrovnik University Study of Media and Culture of Society, Opatija, Croatia:
Croatia is losing quality newspapers. Global media companies are buying existing publishing companies and developing tabloids only. We would like to preserve at least one newspaper as [...]
Larry Sanger, co founder of Wikipedia, is helping build the Digital Universe, which, he says in a CNET News.com interview, will:
be a non-commercial, free or open content authoritative information resource that mirrors reality. You can think of the Digital Universe as a set of portals, each defined by a topic, such as the planet Mars. [...]
As I try to learn more about open source and how it might be applied to the saving journalism, I have been reading the book How Open Is the Future? edited by Marleen Wynants & Jan Cornelis. In it they talk about all kinds of open source projects, including OpenCola.
Wow, I thought, of [...]
Dan Gillmor will run the Center for Citizen Media in California. Here is the introduction:
This is the website for the Center for Citizen Media, a new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level.
The nonprofit Center is jointly affiliated with the University of California, Berkeleyâs Graduate School [...]
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.