What if — and this is really a big “what if” — what if news organizations put together divisions that worked at producing blockbuster productions that people might actually want to download via iTunes or something similar. What if you had produced a video or audio production that was so popular that 100,000 people downloaded [...]
About midway through a piece at Publishing 2.0 on why journalists should collaborative, there is a listing of who is collaborating. It includes Reporting On, which uses Twitter for reporters to tell what they are working on now, Jay Rosen’s Beat Blogging, David Cohn’s Spot.Us, and Serra Media’s Newsgarden.
I am about to make a my presentation at the Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web about Representative Journalism and how it works at Locally Grown in Northfield, MN. Here is a YouTube rendition of the talk, but it is not great on YouTube.
Jessica McBride from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is doing a presentation on Using “blog talk radio” in the classroom at the Convergence and Society:The Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina.
BlogTalkRadio has been around for a couple of years. One of my students actually became quite good at running his own show and [...]
Their sample is small, developed from mining Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005 research, but early indications from a study by Bartosz Wojdynski and Jessica Smith from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicate that:
It’s clear African Americans are sharing content in large numbers.
In fact, African Americans are producing more content proportionally [...]
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.