This from a Poynter Institute post based on a Knight Foundation press release:
U.S. high school students know more about the First Amendment than they did two years ago, but they are increasingly polarized in how they feel about it, according to an update of a groundbreaking survey funded by the John S. and James L. […]
Ed Bark, former TV critic for the Dallas Morning News, turns blogger and explains why he could not write about local TV because of prohibitions at the DMN, which he just left.
Here is the crux:
DMN management’s recent decision to mostly cover national network television with wire service copy left me without much of a playing […]
The Society for News Design has drafted a code of ethics. Kenny Irby gives background and there is a sidebar video of Society members providing their thoughts about the code and about ethics in general.
The code is preceded by this comment:
SND is drafting a code of ethics for visual journalism, and we want to hear […]
As you probably know by now, the New York Times and Microsoft are about to release a more readable online version of the paper. You can sign up now to get the beta edition when it is released. I did.
It’s free, for now. My guess is, that later you can pay and that this will […]
I just read a fascinating article in The New Yorker about the British Mass Observation movement which was the citizen journalism of 60 years ago. Caleb Crain writes:
between 1937 and 1945 hundreds of people mailed in regular reports of their daily lives. They came from all backgrounds, though young unmarried clerks and schoolteachers were especially […]
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.