After my earlier post about the demise of NPR’s Bryant Park Project, I sent a comment to the Bryant Park Project page. I thought gosh maybe the Representative Journalism project could come to the rescue and pay the $2million the show needs annually. Here is what I wrote about the concept in the comment post. [...]
The New York Times reports that the Bryant Park Project, a NPR experiment in producing a news program geared for younger audiences, is being canceled. I often listen to it on Sirius Satellite Radio — and have come to enjoy it — although occasionally it goes over the top and sounds like morning shock jocks.
Unfortunately, I [...]
On Sunday the New York Times had an interesting article about trying to persuade more Africans to use soap when washing their hands. The article dealt with marketing goods around habitual behaviors. Maybe people in the news business should take heed.
So instead of selling beer with ads filled with beautiful women, you make ads that show [...]
After the Journalism that Matters wrapped up its New Pamphleteers/New Reporters sessions on Friday, June 6, 2008, a select group of the participants went to Minnesota Public Radio studios to record a discussion entitled: “What do citizens want from citizen media.” You can hear it here.
Also earlier in the day, MPR loaned Journalism That [...]
Tampa Bay’s 10 screams out with great enthusiam:
Tampa Bay’s 10 is looking for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a special project. We will teach twenty lucky people how to shoot a video camera, and how to get the video to us here at the station.
And not only THAT, there [...]
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.