At just about the time as I am writing this, Bonnie Obremski, our first Representative Journalism fellow, is arriving in Northfield, Minnesota. Once she settles in, she will be filing in-depth stories for the Locally Grown blog run by Ross Currier, Tracy Davis and Griff Wigley.
Of course, Bill Densmore, who is giving logistics support, Chris [...]
Got a great idea to improve how information is spread and exchanged in your local community? Then read on and see how to cash in on the five-year, $24-million Knight Community Information Challenge. In this email interview conducted by Leonard Witt, Mike Maidenberg, a former Knight Foundation VP and now project consultant, provides insider [...]
The Carnegie and Knight foundations are pumping $11 million more into their initiative for journalism education change. The new recipients include: Arizona State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Here is the full press release:
EXPANSION OF CARNEGIE-KNIGHT INITIATIVE SEEKS TO TRANSFORM JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN U.S.
Program [...]
McClatchyNext is billed as a:
A shared wiki for McClatchy journalists and others to talk about the way ahead for news, news companies and people who care about them.
If you have not done, so I would recommend a visit, lots of interesting conversations happening at this wiki and you can join the conversation. Here is more:
What’s [...]
I contacted Grayson Daughters, an Atlanta area user content producer, because I wanted to learn more about her success at getting stuff placed at CNN’s iReport.com. She is listed as a CNN iReport Superstar. One piece on Georgia politics got more than 10,000 views and got the CNN stamp of approval. What Daughters tells me [...]
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.