Am I the only person who is not among the young who is taking self-portraits of himself with a digital camera? The New York Times has a rather large style section story about self-portraits in MySpace.com and makes a big psychological deal out it in a story that really shows why the young aren’t reading […]
This year the Midwinter Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) will be held Feb. 24-26 at Bowling Green State University.
Click here for a press release and here for a full list of panels and speakers.
Alberto Ibarguen, the newly appointed president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds journalism projects, likes a quote by Carnegie Corporation’s Vartan Gregorian:
âEveryone has needs; but it’s ideas that we need to fund.â
He also says:
We are wedded to excellence in journalism, though not to newspapers, however important a role […]
This from Advertising Age:
Steve Rubel, by some counts the No. 1 advertising blogger, is going mainstream with a move to PR giant Edelman.
The article continues:
The move is yet another blogger-makes-it-big tale — even if itâs not quite up to Engadget snuff. Mr. Rubelâs MicroPersuasion has become a popular read in a marketing world that […]
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, thinks there must be a balance between mainstream and citizen journalism. Here is a part of an interview from the City Pages in Minnesota’s Twin Cities:
If you’ve read my blog lately, you’ll notice I’ve been emphasizing recently a balance and merging of professional and citizen journalism. The deal is, […]
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.