PJNet

Well look what we have here, a newly invented PJNet.org. Actually it is a newly designed PJNet.org; the content will remain pretty much the same with a few spin offs like Representative Journalism and my ethics case study The Outing of Jim West, both of which will grow out of this site soon. Very soon. Both are explained in the video: What’s New at PJNet.org. The videos will come and go. Got a video that you think PJNet readers might be interested in, let me know. I’ll try to give it center stage.

Griff Wigley associate Sean Hayford O’Leary did the lion’s share of the redesign, and we moved it from Movable Type to WordPress, which will mean that at least for a while the Google searches will be problematic. But Griff and Sean tell me that in the long run it will all be for the better. We’ll see. Now I love that most often when you type in public journalism my site comes up first at Google. I liked to think I owned the worldwide franchise. Will that be true in the future, as I said, we’ll see.

So Catherine Cook, while in high school, became the co-founder of myYearbook.com and is already worth millions. Then she started My Mag, a myYearbook affiliated online magazine for teens, and here is what she says in an interview at CNet’s News.com:

I think it’s so popular because all of the new articles are things that our users write. We do have professional editors–otherwise the articles wouldn’t be as good as they are. But about 2 percent of the articles (submitted) get posted to the site, and they’re all very relevant to teens, not just about celebrities–things like managing popularity in high school….

This from yesterday’s MacArthur Foundation press release:

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today a public competition that will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. The competition is part of MacArthur’s $50 million Digital Media and Learning initiative that aims […]

I was on the road last week and passed by the Pew study entitled: INTERNET NEWS AUDIENCE HIGHLY CRITICAL OF NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. Jeff Jarvis provides a quick analysis with the introduction:

The latest Pew Research Center study on Americans’ views of their news media show falling trust, growing divides, and the emergence of media tribes. There’s […]

So what news do people read on the Internet? Phil Lewis, editor of the Naples (Florida) Daily News, writes a column on what folks are reading online at his paper. Top readership goes to this headline by a 3-1 margin:

“East Naples woman backs over man teaching her how to drive.”
Coming in a distant second was […]