The photo today in The New York Times of Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, and Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The Times, tells us a lot about the future of newspapers.
They were at the American Society of Newspaper Editors annual meeting, according to a Times story, to unveil software ” that would allow [...]
Two colleagues here at Kennesaw State University, Dr. Earl Holliday and Mike Keleher, and I have received a $46,000 No Child Left Behind Grant to teach language arts teachers in the Cobb County and Marietta City Schools how to use weblogs in the classroom.
It is an exciting year-long project with a centerpiece being [...]
NPR reports:
Congress Votes Against Internet Neutrality Bill
Morning Edition, April 27, 2006 · Congress defeats legislation that would have required all Internet traffic to be treated equally as it moves across the network. Telephone and cable companies want to start charging higher rates for faster and preferential connections.
Fear is that small blogs like PJNet.org will get [...]
This from the latest The Pew Internet & American Life Project study:
latest survey, fielded February 15 – April 6, 2006 shows that fully 73% of respondents (about 147 million adults) are internet users, up from 66% (about 133 million adults) in our January 2005 survey. And the share of Americans who have broadband connections at [...]
Without radical change newspapers could be done for within 10 years, according to consultant Vin Crosbie. a long analysis he writes:
More than 1,250 of the 1,500 daily U.S. newspapers are owned by publicly-traded companies. Their stockholders, particularly the institutional ones, aren’t going to wait until the the day when it becomes no longer [...]
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.