I am no Sarah Palin fan. However, my guess is she will surprise a lot of folks in the upcoming debate. In our heads, at least in mine,we confuse the real Sarah Palin with the Tina Fey Palin, a whiny know nothing. Of course, that perception is reinforced by Palin’s actual interviews with Katie Couric [...]
Our Representative Journalism project in Northfield, Minnesota is taking on a big challenge that has always faced news organizations. How can a big international story like the International Economic Meltdown be translated to hyperlocal reporting? We are giving it a try. First some background.
I am the person behind the Representative Journalism project that is taking [...]
We are having a gas shortage crisis here in Atlanta. I mean it is bad. Maybe one in 20 gas stations has gas and even then it is a long wait to fill up. Now Twitter comes to the rescue, with a rolling commentary of who is and who is not selling gas.
This from the Grand Forks Herald:
UND officials announced plans Friday to dissolve UND’s School of Communication and relocate its faculty and staff to other departments within the university.
Apparently the school has been dysfunctional for sometime and so University of North Dakota officials decided dissolving the school was the best plan of action. Here is commentary [...]
At PJNet.org I have been monitoring what Philip Meyer has been saying about the future of newspapers for quite sometime and took his book “The Vanishing Newspaper” very seriously, very early. It even inspired our Wake Up Call conference in 2005. Now he is back with more excellent advice in an article in the American [...]
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.