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a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will analyze the candidates’ speeches, TV ads and interviews and determine whether the claims are accurate.
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When I worked at the Allentown Morning Call more than 20 years ago, there was a twisted, melted photographer’s camera from the 1940s or 1950s tucked away on a top shelf in the bowels of the photography department.
It was part of a mini-monument with a memorial plaque to a long forgotten photographer, who I believe was a [...]
During the past couple of months I have been knocking on PBS doors trying to convince folks with some power to see the potential of having individual video journalists produce packages just as the folks at National Public Radio do for audio. PBS could fill the national TV news void.
Then today the New York Times [...]
The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt, in a video interview with Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org), tells of the power of the Black blogosphere in saving the then 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton from seven years in jail for shoving a hall monitor and then how that same Afro-American blogosphere drove the Jena 6 protest [...]
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.