Too often what passes for photojournalism isn’t journalism at all, it’s public relations. Would a real journalist print a press release as delivered? Would a real journalist write verbatim about a staged event, just as it was scripted by the event managers who delivered the event?
So why do the photojournalists even from the biggest agencies [...]
In my earlier post below about the $6 million journalism school fortresses, I said let’s make journalism schools incubators for grassroots journalism ideas just as the J-Lab has for communities. The key paragraph in Mark Glaser’s MediaShift story, which includes parts of my earlier post, is:
So why not take the $6 million (Knight and Carnegie [...]
Key excerpt from essay below:
The last thing that journalism schools need is more of the fortress mentality, where their students think: “I am a professional and therefore I can practice journalism and you are not a professional and therefore you cannot do journalism.”
Mark Glaser at PBS’s MediaShift asked me for some comments for a story [...]
Be your own video aggregator, set up your own site with via Magnify Networks.
The site’s tagline is:
Turn your site, your community, and your passion into a video site that draws from across the web. Peer-powered, User-generated.
Interesting stuff, especially for people who want to build community around specific interest group videos.
Thanks to Robin Good for the [...]
Helping the Philadelphia Inquirer's Brian Tierney save newspaper journalism.
The Economist ran a story on saving newspaper journalism and its quoting of Brian Tierney, the new owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, inspired me to make a vlog.
Brian Tierney this Coke's for you:
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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.