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Witt Explains Representative Journalism to PBS’s CEO

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, said she sees the possibility of PBS and National Public Radio (NPR) sharing resources to produce news programming for PBS. Leonard Witt, who conducted the video interview, tells Kerger of his Representative Journalism idea, which he thinks could turn PBS into a news powerhouse.

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Making PBS a National News Powerhouse

Friday, June 20th, 2008

 Today I just finished hanging around at the WETA News Academy 2008 in Washington, D.C. I was there as a presenter and observer because I fully believe that PBS is the place for my Representative Journalism concept to take hold. So like Johnny Appleseed, I am going everywhere planting the seeds.
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About RJ

  • Your host

    Leonard Witt

    Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger at PJNet.org.

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  • Advisory Board

    Northfield Trial Project Team: Leonard Witt, Chris Peck, Bill Densmore,

    Advisory Board: Bill Buzenberg, David Cohn, Oscar Corral, Ken Doctor, David Eckoff, Amy Gahan, Mark Glaser, Joel Kramer Dori J. Maynard, Ken Sands, Jan Schaffer, Venise Wagner, Lisa Williams

    Financial Support: Harnisch Family Foundation and its president Ruth Ann Harnisch

  • What I'm thinking about

  • A Definition

    Representative Journalism, a term coined by Leonard Witt, aims to build sustainable journalism one small group at a time.

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  • Your Role

    Leonard Witt has been developing the Representative Journalism idea behind the scenes for several months. Now he is going public. You can help develop the concept into a workable model or models for mainstream media, small operations, start-ups or individual endeavors.

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