So if you were to start a newspaper from scratch, what would you do? How about not have a building. Let’s see how it works for a legacy newspaper building. This from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Brian Tierney, chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C., said today that the company would sell the Inquirer Building, […]
The $100 laptop, promised to provide computing power to poor kids around the world, is looking really good, although the price is now up to $140. Still it is impressive, see this demo:
Joe Murray, a journalism professor at Kent State University, writes an essay, Adapt or Die: A 10-Step Survival Guide for Journalism Schools Stuck in the Fourth Estate. It’s written in a breezy, but well documented style. It’s mostly common sense advice with a few good insights and worth a read.
Here was an insight for me:
Since […]
University of Queensland, Brisbane has a call for papers for its “Convergence, Citizen Journalism & Social Change: Building Capacity” conference on March 25-27, 2008. Five hundred word abstracts are due by October 25, 2007. Full details can be found here.
The New York Times posed an interesting question on its Op-Ed pages yesterday. It asked new-media gurus if they could run the presidential candidate debates:
What would a real new-media debate look like?
The Op-Ed page editors writing of the recent YouTube/CNN debate said:
…the format was still basically the same one that’s been used for nearly 50 […]
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.