Spot.us, David Cohn’s innovative site to help fund journalism projects via crowdfunding, launches today. Here is the idea in four bullet points:
People submit tips
Journalists pitch stories
People fund pitches or journalists to do the stories
Stories are reported
Clay Shirky in his book Here Comes Everybody (Chapter 11), lays out three rules for successful social action sites like [...]
As someone who backs the public journalism philosophy it might seem like heresy to talk about the horse race coverage of the election. But at the wire on Tuesday night it was fantastic. CNN was stellar with its touch screen maps, its 3-D Senate selection graphic and its commentators, who for the first time in [...]
I will be on an election Postmortem panel at Kennesaw State University on Thursday and my topic will be the blogosphere and the election. Here are some bullet points I am assembling for the talk, got any others? Let me know:
First point to remember. Blogs are simply a blank piece of paper. They can be [...]
Here is a must-read commentary from Peter Osnos of The Century Foundation. He starts by writing of this bit of news from last week:
…for the media business nothing was more important than Google’s settlement with book publishers of law suits challenging the right to digitize copyrighted books for search and distribution without paying for [...]
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.