On Monday, I blew a gasket when I read that Clear Channel’s KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa was firing all of its reporters and would move to get citizens to do its work. They should read this post from Vin Crosbie:
citizen journalism is a supplement, not a panacea. Citizen journalism itself isn’t going to reverse the [...]
As you know, I am trying real hard to help reinvent journalism so we will have a smarter journalism.
I always thought the mainstream media had a part in this. But now it has gotten personal. So we had our SoCon07 conference and not one reporter from one of the traditional media shows up to [...]
Amber Rhea and Rusty Tanton of the Georgia Podcast Network podcasted several sessions of the SoCon07 conference including the opening session which I led by giving a 20-minute overview of the open and free software movement, open content, disruptive technologies and finally Web 2.0. That was followed by an unconference conversation with the more than [...]
Grayson Daughters caught this wonderful little Josh Hallett moment on video at the SoCon07 conference about baby blogging.
SoCon07, Hallett
So this is what it is coming down to:
Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming
That’s the headline on a San Francisco Chronicle story, then it goes down hill from there.
Steve Spendlove is a Clear Channel executive overseeing KFTY-TV in Santa Rosa. The story says:
Spendlove said that [...]
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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.