My summer has kicked in with some adventures in store. I will try to chronicle some here with maybe a vlog or two if I can pull it off. But mostly with maybe a couple of exceptions this site will be going dark until about July 21.
Have a nice summer.
Jay Rosen is having some fun at BloggerCon IV testing the Dan Gillmor advanced theory that our audiences know more than we do as journalists. See this post and earlier ones.
Here is how to tune into BloggerCon IV.
This from a Knight Foundation press release:
“… the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism a $1.25 million grant to establish the Knight Case Studies Initiative to promote journalism leadership. The initiative will integrate a multimedia method of instruction involving real-world case studies into the [...]
When I first conceived the idea for my paper on Reinventing Journalism at First Monday, I was thinking BIG, of reinventing on a macro level, but now I am more inclined to think about it on a micro level. I wish news media organizations would walk through it point by point to see how [...]
I notice these tips for young journalists at Poynter. I wanted to file it for my features class next fall. So as not to forget it, here it is. I love my blog as a public file cabinet.
The journalist Peter Zuckerman, who won the Livingston Award for young journalists, is also interviewed.
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.