In the old days there were reporters and there were rewrite folks. The reporter would call in the story notes and rewrite would get it written. After watching Jay Rosen’s Assignment Zero(AZ) experiment unfold, I think a great rewrite person would have helped. Maybe they could still find some mentors from Time retirees, where reporters […]
This from a MapLight.org press release:
MAPLight.org has launched a revolutionary search engine that reveals the connections between money and politics within U.S. Congress.
At the web site www.maplight.org, journalists and the public can now rapidly follow the money and voting trail for over 100 subject areas, legislators, special interest groups, and bills for the 109th Congress […]
I am not sure every newspaper company CEO would define themselves as being in the journalism business. But they should. If they think they are in some other business, I believe they are vulnerable to the next entrepreneur who thinks journalism first. Yes, that day is coming.
Any how if you love journalism, you have to […]
I said earlier that while news columnists were screaming about the Rupert Murdoch attempted takeover of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, there was little written about the Thomson family and its history of running newspapers. It is a god awful history in terms of journalism. Even one of its own executives called the […]
In the interest of putting a stake in the Social Media, Web 2.0, Unconference, Conference ground, our team of Jeff Haynie, Sherry Heyl and me have picked our date for the SoCon08 conference. It will be at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta on Friday and Saturday, February 8-9, 2008. This year’s SoCon07 was a […]
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.