I just got another $5 million reminder from the Knight Foundation saying:
Enter the Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge! Deadline is December 31!
Here are the details from the foundation’s email:
Who will create community through new media?
Newspapers have long defined the communities we live in. They shape how we think about community and how we [...]
Just after writing the previous post in which Geneva Overholser tells journalist to think big, I read Jeff Jarvis telling journalists to go independent and then become networked with mainstream companies. Jarvis takes his cue from this:
Shane Richmond of The Telegraph profiles a sports writer who was laid off from his paper and set out [...]
Geneva Overholser, now of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Washington bureau and formerly editor of the Des Moines Register, wants institutional journalism change and provides some possibilities. First the call for change:
we will most assuredly have to get it through our heads (and hearts) just how exciting and full of possibility for journalism’s future are [...]
New York Times reports:
The (Los Angeles) Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging the reader, both in print and online. The newspaper’s editor, Dean Baquet, and its new publisher, David Hiller, plan to convene a meeting today to start the effort, which [...]
Today I am joining a discussion at Kennesaw State University about setting up a possible peace studies minor. In anticipation of the meeting, I did a little web surfing and found 17 tips at the Media Channel for practicing peace journalism. They are fantastic tips that every journalist should think about in every story.
Here are [...]
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.