The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that China now has 137 million internet users whereas estimates for USA users vary from 165 to 210 million Internet users. In China the 137 million represents just a 10 percent penetration rate, the USA numbers represent a 71 percent penetration rate, according to the report.
A Pew […]
Bryan Murley does an online interview with Regina McCombs who has been producing multimedia for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune since 1997. Here is part of the interview:
My feeling is that we will no longer hire people without multimedia skills, since we’re learning it’s cheaper to hire those skills at the beginning than have to train people […]
Wired.com has begun to post the results of Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net’s Assignment Zero that covered crowdsourcing. Anna Haynes, in her lead article entitled: Open-Source Journalism: It’s a Lot Tougher Than You Think, writes why she has taken part in six crowdsourcing projects, some with less than stellar results:
In short: There was plenty of room for […]
In preparing for our Journalism that Matters (JTM) conference Aug. 7-8, 2007 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. , Bill Densmore has put together an excellent journalism change reading list. It’s actually a wiki, so if we are missing something, please add it.
About 90 people are already committed to attending this think-tank, including many […]
Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that 47 % of adult Americans have high speed broadband in their homes. Two groups lagging behind are African Americans with 40 % connected to broadband and rural homes with 31 %, but both groups have shown connectivity increases. Of course, this means that right now if someone […]
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.