The other day after the Alex Rodriguez hit another game winning home run for the Yankees, one of the New York tabloids ran a headline: Deja-Boom. Today as I write this I am thinking Deja-Boom, as in lowering the newspaper boom all over again. Yesterday, the Editor & Publisher reported:
According to industry sources, overall daily [...]
Here is a lovely quote by Bill Moyers in an interview posted at TomPaine.com:
When I left Washington 40 years ago, it took me a while to realize that what’s important is not how close you are to power but how close you are to the truth.
And then this when talking about the monopolistic powers that [...]
As we all know the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech claimed 32 victims. Hundreds, thousands of news reports were written about it. I read many of them. However, the gun story that struck me the most was tucked away on the back page of the New York Times Sunday Week in Review section. It was [...]
I love this quote from The New York Times story on how Wikipedia was the go to place for getting the complete Virginia Tech shooting story:
Miikka Ryokas, whose user name is Kizo…in an e-mail message said that he was a 22-year-old computer science student from Turku, Finland, wrote: “As the popular joke goes, ‘The problem [...]
The Wall Street Journal has posted the prepared remarks of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, and Janet Robinson, president and chief executive officer, for their annual stockholders meeting. It is worth a read, and especially, noteworthy that they centered the talk around preserving The New York Times as “the gold [...]
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.