The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK is holding a conference Monday, January 7, 2008 entitled: Broadcast News and the Active Citizen. I am thinking maybe David Hazinski, who I went to battle with over the value of Citizen Journalism, should be buying a ticket. Or better yet, Hazinski via [...]
On Thursday, University of Georgia professor David Hazinski wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the evils of citizen journalism , saying:
The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.
Being a resident of Georgia and the owner of citizenjournalism.org, I felt obligated to provide the opposite view, which is [...]
I just got this email from J. D. Lasica’s Ourmedia.org:
We thought you’d like to know what’s happening at Ourmedia.org. Our new sister site, Bid4Vid.com,will be launching soon. It’s a way to help video producers get paid for their creative efforts. As a member of the Ourmedia community, registration is streamlined som you’ll be able to [...]
This from Journalism.co.uk about Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News:
In recent weeks Sky has designed Facebook applications, developed a iPhone-friendly mobile interface, called for Second Life citizen journalism volunteers, released a Windows Vista gadget, used social media to experiment with new reporting forms, rolled out technology to enhance online news stories with map-based navigation – and more [...]
In New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s piece today, If It’s Fit to Blog, Is It Fit to Print?, there is a statistic that I found quite amazing. He writes:
Editors may be tempted to think that if the newspaper’s Web site has a story, the newspaper has covered it, but more than 80 percent of readers [...]
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.