This from a Knight Foundation news release:
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MTV announced today the Knight News Challenge “Young Creators Award,” a new digital journalism grant program for young people age 25 and under anywhere in the world. The contest will award up to $500,000 to young creators with compelling […]
David Ryfe, associate professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, points us to the school’s graduate program entitled: Interactive Environmental Journalism.
The program description includes this:
Our professional graduate program is an intensive 10-month immersion in thinking about, experimenting with and creating new forms of journalism…
We are focusing on Lake Tahoe and its surrounding communities […]
Over at Representative Journalism I begin to layout a scenario to make book reviewing flourish everywhere rather than continue the cutting.
This from Portfolio.com about a company called Microvision:
the company is onto a consumer product called microprojection — a tiny laser projector on a chip. Build it into a cell phone or video iPod, and you’d no longer have to watch video on a screen the size of a credit card. You could prop up the […]
I’m in Asheville, North Carolina, taking a Labor Day break and was treated to a little old timey country music on the porch of the 1900 Inn on Montford. Musicians from left are Kevin Scanlon, Woody Pines and Ben Scales. Enjoy.
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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.