Two books/reports were released this week: News Improved: How America’s Newsrooms Are Learning to Change was backed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the second is Trends in Newsrooms: The Annual Report of the World Editors Forum.
In this blog I want to review process rather than content. The people at the [...]
Scrapblog made a big splash at the We Media conference in Miami, then went into hiding. But now it is back. Everyone is going to love it. Now media companies have to figure how their audiences might get the most mileage of it. Being vain I did my own little scrapeblog of a trip. Afterward, [...]
Here thanks to iA Notebook is a list of story links on the gloom, doom and salvation of the news media.
Doc Searls Weblog: How to Save Newspapers
Robert Scoble: Newspapers are deadâ¦
Don Dodge: Has the Internet killed newspapers, magazines, music and video?
Mathew: Print may be dying, but the news is not
Larry Digman: How journalism education should [...]
This from a San Francisco Chronicle update on OhmyNews, the South Korean online newspaper that helped start the citizen journalism buzz:
After having turned a small profit for three years, OhmyNews slid into the red in 2006. It faces growing competition in South Korea, has failed to catch fire beyond its borders and, most important, has [...]
The Poynter Institute released findings of its EyeTrack07 study. The thrust, captured in part by a Marketplace radio quote from newspaper design consultant Alan Jacobson, is:
they will read it if we print it on a paper bag, if they care about it.
This from the Poynter Institute report on the findings:
You can’t get much more basic [...]
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.