Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent of The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, is live blogging events taking place on Wall Street in the first day of trading after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement. Norris is writing several posts an hour, and it is really fascinating reading.
Demonstrates how breaking events, mixed with [...]
Jamison Foser at Media Matters for America has an interesting essay on how the media should deal with campaign lies and how they too often privilege the liars and their lies at the expense of the offended party.
Here is a key part of the essay, which is directed toward the John McCain operatives who are [...]
I have always thought that e-ink and e-readers could save journalism. Then I just read a review of the Kindle, Amazon’s e-reader. The review is more than a month old, and I only came across it because I was considering buying a Kindle. I still might, but this review has made me start to rethink about [...]
So you want to blog, great. Now learn how it can pay off even without a massive audience. How do I know? Because the PJNet.org, which blogs about the niche citizen and public journalism movements is a great example. Listen to me Leonard Witt, Mindy McAdams, Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen (alas the tape ran [...]
Ad Age runs a story and video showing the behind-the-scenes work to make Esquire Magazine’s October digital cover and advertisement come to life. One commentator in the video calls it the beginning of a new era in magazine advertising.
Also Esquire invites you to hack their e-ink technology.
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.