On The New York Times op-ed pages yesterday there was an opinion piece about setting up a $5 billion endowment to perpetually provide the Times with a $200 million annual payout to support the newsroom. I have a better idea.
Right now the Times has approximately a circulation of about 1 million. To have it delivered [...]
Henry Blodget at Silicon Valley Insider advances his Plan to Fix The New York Times in three steps:
Cut costs 40% by 2010.
Continue to raise print subscription prices
Explore charging an online subscription fee
I am most intrigued by the idea of no firewall but still a fee. Anyone can link to the stories and you can see [...]
I am at the University of Missouri for the RJI News Collaboratory which bills itself as Entrepreneurial journalists in action.
The RJI News Collaboratory mission:
We work with entrepreneurial journalists, citizens and organizations to create strategies and tools for high-quality Web-based journalism.
Information is being livestreamed right now.
Robert Niles at the the Online Journalism Review writes that it is time to rethink some of journalism’s traditional ethical assumptions, saying:
The central tenet of journalism ethics (in my opinion) remains: Do what’s best to empower your readers with truthful information. Everything we do ought to flow from that goal.
The practice of journalism is an [...]
“The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years — from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s December 2008 tracking survey.”
That’s from a Pew press release. Here is more:
Most [...]
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.