Amy Gahran has an excellent outline of the ties between mainstream journalism and participatory journalism and their futures. Here are some of the outline headings:
What’s the point of news? Why do people want & need news? What do people do with news? Breaking out of the story format. Where do we go from here?
It is worth [...]
It is 7 a.m. I am being transported to a magnificent office building on an island surrounded by mountains and blue seas. I am at least a couple of decades younger, a few inches taller, and for the first time in my life svelte. My brightly colored shirt, reflecting a tropical jungle motif, accents this new [...]
Remember when the Spokane Spokesman-Review had a computer forensic expert go to online chat rooms posing as a teenage male, which ultimately ended in the outing of the Spokane Mayor Jim West? Was it ethical? I have produced an in-depth case study aimed specifically for journalism and ethics classes to help their students see how difficult it is [...]
I am a little late on this but Douglas McGill of The McGill Report shares seven lessons he has learned in providing journalism classes to citizen journalists. Here are the headings:
1. Citizens are an untapped source of expertise and positive civic energy that journalists can help unlock.
2. There is no substitute for a strong, independent, institutional [...]
A New York Times online headline reads: A Call for Eyewitness Photos, Video and Text From Pakistan . Copy reads:
With opposition protests blocked by the authorities in Pakistan, NYTimes.com is asking readers in Pakistan to help us report on events in the country by sending us eyewitness accounts of protests in photographs, video or text.
To submit [...]
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.