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Representative Journalism: Making It Work

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Let’s say our Representative Journalism was a community of people interested in an economic opportunity and development reporter in a relatively economically depressed area. We estimate the total cost for that reporter including salary, benefits, editing support and newsroom overhead costs will be approximately $100,000 a year. To pay for it, the network weaver, […]

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Representative Journalism: A definition

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Representative Journalism, a term coined by Leonard Witt, aims to build sustainable journalism one small group at a time. As mass journalism markets unbundle and become niche markets, news operations, if they are to survive, will have to join the niche movement rather than fight it. Rather than think in terms of a circulation of, […]

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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: Harnish 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.

    Join this online think-tank either ad hoc or sign up in the box that says "Join this Community." Let's make postive change together.