Jay Rosen and the Huffington Post’s OffTheBus is a great way to get student work published nationally. Grayson Daughters, a student of life, has helped produce a couple of grassroots videos –one Republican oriented, one Democratic oriented – for the project, and her work would give students an idea of one technical approach, albeit a fairly standard newscast format.
Students need not go [...]
Mark Glaser at MediaShift.org asked me to critique the student work at News21 2007, the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, as he did last year. Here is his story with some quotes from me, and my extended thoughts on News21 are below:
My first reaction to reading Faces of Faith in America was, my god, the central tenets [...]
In a staff memo on the success of USA Today and how it relates to the newspaper world today, Gannett CEO Craig Dubow writes:
…innovation and transformation are all about: vision, hope, execution, pain, confusion, fear, failure, revision, excitement and then – only then – success.
He adds of the birth of USA Today 25 years ago:
…its [...]
The Swiss magazine L’Hebdo wanted to get up close and personal with its political candidates so has begun its Blog & Breakfast program where they send reporters and editors to spend a day with a candidates, including sleeping over at the candidates’ homes. Here is more from BusinessWeek online:
Every week, one of the editors, reporters, or [...]
Hey, I should have mentioned it earlier. This is probably the last day of Representative Journalism being listed as one of MediaShift’s top five reads of the week. But I really think my post today about saving regional book reviewing is a winner. It plays off the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cutting its section and provides a business [...]
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.