Leonard Witt
About: I am a professor at Kennesaw State University. My interests are public and citizen journalism, and I am thinking a lot about ways to reinvent journalism. That's what my blog PJNet.org is all about. I am also pushing my idea of Representative Journalism. Might even have a backer.
I should know more about widgets.
Blog Posts
The Ultimate Journalism Ethical Question
--A couple of weeks ago I stopped by a panel entitled: Ethics and the Business of Journalism: A Discussion of Urgent Importance at the Association fo...
Obama or McCain? News Site Exposes Biggest Campaign Liars
--PolitiFact bills itself as: a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campai...
It’s an Explosion and a YouTube Moment
--When I worked at the Allentown Morning Call more than 20 years ago, there was a twisted, melted photographer’s camera from the 1940s or 1950...
Watch for a Surge in Video News — It’s Starting Now
--During the past couple of months I have been knocking on PBS doors trying to convince folks with some power to see the potential of having individu...
Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt Praises Black Blogosphere
--The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt, in a video interview with Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org), tells of the power of...
Journalism, Citizen Media Professorship Open at Kennesaw State
--Next week at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in Chicago, Aug 6-9, 2008, I will be talking to ...
Could Representative Journalism Save Bryant Park Project?
--After my earlier post about the demise of NPR’s Bryant Park Project, I sent a comment to the Bryant Park Project page. I thought gosh maybe ...
Get a Blogger Journalism Certificate in Just Two Days, Act Now
--I got a spam email today for the two-day BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas. It includes an optional citizen journalism workshop, which prom...
Chicago Panel to Review 20 Years of Public Journalism
--Jay Rosen and Ed Lambeth, both early thought leaders in the public journalism movement, will help mark the 20th Anniversary of public journalism at...
Editors Talk Quality Journalism, But Will They Deliver It?
--The conclusion of the Project for Excellence in Journalism study The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America’s Da...
Meyer, Bentley: AEJMC Should Keep Newspaper Division Name
--Earlier I promised to keep tabs on the listserv discussion about whether the “Newspaper Division” in the Association for Education in J...
Pew Study Documents Shrinking Newspapers
--The Pew Research Center released a study focusing on USA newspapers, here are the key findings: The majority of newspapers are now suffering cut...
Should AEJMC Newspaper Division Change Its Name?
--A couple of years ago the Civic Journalism Interest Group in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) changed its...
New Media Women Entrepreneurs Grants Given
--This was announced today: Three entrepreneurial news ideas were selected from 190 entries as the winners of $10,000 each in the first McCormick Fou...
Citizen Journalism Gets Its Own Definition
--Jay Rosen took it upon himself to define Citizen Journalism. Here it is: When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they...
David Remnick of the New Yorker, It’s Time to Apologize
--David Remnick, it’s time to apologize, not for running the Barak and Michelle Obama as terrorists cover on the New Yorker, but for not engagi...
NPR Cancels $2-Million Experiment — Are They Kidding?
--The New York Times reports that the Bryant Park Project, a NPR experiment in producing a news program geared for younger audiences, is being cancel...
How to Make Wanting News a Habit
--On Sunday the New York Times had an interesting article about trying to persuade more Africans to use soap when washing their hands. The article de...
Audio Panel: What citizens want from citizen media
--After the Journalism that Matters wrapped up its New Pamphleteers/New Reporters sessions on Friday, June 6, 2008, a select group of the participant...
Calling Tampa Bay Citizen Journalists - Support Gannett NOW
--Tampa Bay’s 10 screams out with great enthusiam: Tampa Bay’s 10 is looking for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a spec...
Hello RepJ Followers, Meet Bonnie Obremski
--At just about the time as I am writing this, Bonnie Obremski, our first Representative Journalism fellow, is arriving in Northfield, Minnesota. Onc...
Cash in on $24-Million Knight Community Information Challenge
--Got a great idea to improve how information is spread and exchanged in your local community? Then read on and see how to cash in on the five-year, ...
Knight, Carnegie $11 million Aimed at Journalism Education Change
--The Carnegie and Knight foundations are pumping $11 million more into their initiative for journalism education change. The new recipients include:...
McClatchyNext: A Wiki Addresses Future of News
--McClatchyNext is billed as a: A shared wiki for McClatchy journalists and others to talk about the way ahead for news, news companies and people wh...
CNN iReport Superstar Tells All — Maybe Too Much
--I contacted Grayson Daughters, an Atlanta area user content producer, because I wanted to learn more about her success at getting stuff placed at C...
Video Explains Representative Journalism — And Is Critiqued
--Last week at the New England News Forum I made a 25-minute presentation explaining my Representative Journalism concept. You can see it below, it i...
Dosh Dosh Lists Digg Plus 37 Other Social News Websites
--Dosh Dosh, an interesting site on social marketing and social networking, lists 48 top social news websites such as Reddit and Digg. The site also...
Need Journalism Funds, See a Community Foundation Now
--Starting now community foundations can begin to apply for the five-year, $24-million Knight Community Information Challenge. So maybe if you, as a ...
Big Think Videos, Easy for Citizens to Duplicate
--Big Think has taken a video camera and interviewed hundreds of experts, just a straight on head shot in the tradition of Errol Morris. Even the Was...
Stony Brook Dean on Teaching Journalism Literacy
--Howard Schneider is talking about how he teaches news literacy to all students not just journalism students at Stony Brook. It is excellent present...
Livestreaming: New England News Forum Sharing News
--I am in Lowell, Mass. for the: New England News Forum and the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP present a unique, one-day workshop...
Spot.us Builds Relationship with Representative Journalism
--David Cohn and I have been exchanging ideas for months about his Spot.us project for funding journalism projects and my Representative Journalism p...
ProPublica Is Great, But Let’s Advocate for Much More
--In a PBS NewsHour report focused on nonprofit funding of the news, especially ProPublica for investigative reporting, Alex Jones, director of the ...
Got a Foreign Correspondent, Scream it Out
--Look, I am no fan of Sam Zell and what he is doing at the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, however I was taken by an interview at Atlantic.com with on...
Huffington Quote Worth Saving: Ferret Out Truth
--Arianna Huffington made plenty of news this past week when she told the world that she was about to take the Huffington Post local to places like C...
Knight to Fund Community Foundations, Media Innovation
--Knight announces $24 million in challenge grants for community foundations aimed as spurring local media, technology and information needs. Get mor...
Dismal Outlook for Newspapers Gets Worse
--I started seriously blogging about the possible demise of newspapers back in 2005, after interviewing Phil Meyer, author of the The Vanishing Newsp...
Guardian Hosts New Media Stars on Journalism’s Future
--The Guardian provides a wealth of stories, videos and podcasts from its Future of Journalism symposium. Here is a quote from Adrian Holovaty, renow...
Tow Foundation to Give Millions to CUNY, Columbia
--This from Crain’s New York Business.com: The Tow Foundation will give $3 million to the City University of New York’s Graduate School o...
Making PBS a National News Powerhouse
--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 beli...
Pew: Obama Has Internet Edge Among Youth
--Pew Internet & American Life Project releases interesting findings about how the public is using the Internet and mobile devices in this Presi...
Brokaw: News Media in Second Big Bang
--The New Yorker has an in-depth profile on how Keith Olbermann at MSNBC is changing TV news, but here is my favorite part: Tom Brokaw, anchor of NBC...
Boston Globe Provides Craig Newmark Primer and Update
--The Boston Globe runs a fine Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, primer and update . The site also has a 28-minute audio discussion with Newmark....
Hear What Motivates Do-It-Yourself, Local Media Producers
--Interested in making your own media and becoming what is now called a placeblogger? Listen as 12 folks, including me, provide first-hand informatio...
Bill O’Reilly Says I Am a Lunatic
--Bill O’Reilly, the fake news guy who carries Rupert Murdoch’s water at Fox News, called me a lunatic. Indeed, he called all the 3,500 p...
Where Bill Moyers’ Inspiration and Reality Meet
--I just yesterday returned from the Media Reform conference in Minneapolis where Bill Moyers’ made, as usual a deeply inspirational speech, te...
Time to Expose Staged Video and Photos Ops
--In the past I have ranted about how the spin doctors set up photo ops, which photojournalists and videographers treat as reality. Shame on all part...
More Livestreaming from Journalism that Matters
--At the JTM in Minneapolis there is more livestreaming taking place now.
Joel Kramer Optimistic about Nonprofit News Models
--Yesterday I blogged that Joel Kramer, MinnPost publisher, spoke in a broad sense about the grim outlook for news business models. He said that̵...
Livestream: Changing Roles in Emerging News Ecology
--Joel Kramer is talking live at the Journalism that Matters discussion with Mike Tippet and Michelle Ferrier. He says if his MinnPost project is a ...
Journalism that Matters Starts Today in Minneapolis
--I am at the Journalism that Matters session, A Passion for Place, in Minneapolis. It is supposed to be livestreamed. Right now Margaret Duffy of t...
BusinessWeek Revisits Blogging Three Years Later
--BusinessWeek in its update to its 2005 article “Blogs Will Change Your Business,” now opts for the headline: “Social Media Will ...
Knight News Challenge Winners Announced
--David Cohn was one of the Knight Challenge winners for 2008, and the PJNet.org via Representative Journalism has been talking to Cohn about possibl...
Attend Placebloggers JTM Conference in Minneapolis
--If you are looking to do community news online or have a placeblog, you might want to attend the Journalism that Matters Conference in Minneapolis ...
Will Community Foundations Fund Local Journalism?
--In this video Eric Newton, Vice President for the Journalism Program at the Knight Foundation, says only 25 percent of community foundations fund j...
Journalism that Matters Conference at Yahoo!
--I am at the Journalism that Matters NewsTool2008 unconference being held at Yahoo!, which is providing the space but it is an independent conferenc...
Promo Shows Direction of CNN’s iReport
--CNN’s iReport puts out a promotional video describing its citizens driven iReport. So if you want to participate look for something exploding...
Elizabeth Edwards: Campaign News Coverage Is Poor
--One wonders if all the criticism of the presidential campaign coverage is heard by the folks in newsrooms. Certainly it is not heeded. As I have sa...
TV Political News, Another Night of Utter Embarrassment
--At 9:15 p.m. I turned off the TV, I could no longer stand to watch the left and right wing partisan folks on CNN and MSNBC scream at each other as ...
NYTimes: Bush’s Military Trojan Horse Influences War News
--The Sunday New York Times has an expose about how the Bush administration recruits retired military generals to analyze the Iraq war for TV and oth...
Public’s New Digital Thumbs Gouge ABC News Debate
--The Public Journalism or Civic Journalism movement started 20 years ago and grew out of repulsion to the sleaze and trivia of that 1988 Presidentia...
David Brooks loves ABC News Debate Questions
--David Brooks, New York Times columnist, under a condescending column headline reading: No Whining About the Media, writes: First, Democrats, and es...
New York Times Reinforces Inane Debate Questions
--Last night I expressed my distain for the ABC News questions aimed at Democratic Party presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, in...
ABC Conducts Worst Debate, It’s Embarrassing
--I got so angry watching the smarmy questions being asked by moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos of both Hillary Clinton and Barack...
Knight Funded Study Aims at Information Needs of Communities
--The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is funding a $2.3 million study to see if citizens and communities are getting the information they need...
Abu Ghraib: Citizen Witness Trumps, Empowers Journalism
--I just got around to reading my New Yorker from March 24, 2008 and in it is the story of “Sabrina Harman, a U.S. Army specialist who took pho...
NAA White Paper Gives Overview of Citizen Journalism
--Mark Toner writes an interesting white paper for the Newspaper Association of America entitled: Citizen Journalism and Newspaper Sites: The Revolu...
Newsplex Head: Why Aren’t USA Newpapers Investing in Future?
--Bill Densmore, who attended the Next Newsroom conference at Duke Unversity, provides this introduction to a video he shot at Duke: Randy Covington ...
Steps to Getting to the Right Social Media Technologies
--I was in a session at the Next Newsroom at Duke led by Kara Andrade about using social media technologies. Here is a four-step way to thinking abou...
Groundswell — Which Ages Use What Online Technologies
--Groundswell is an interesting little site that gives general answers to this question: What’s The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Custo...
Next Newsroom Day II — Tools for Collaboration
--We are in break out sessions today, all unconference ways to think about the Next Newsroom for Duke University. I was in great session about how to...
Next Newsroom — Part III
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Live Blogging the Next Newsroom at Duke
--This will be the most sporadic Live Blog, but I will post notes. Mainly though to remind you that the Next Newsroom project at Duke is being live b...
Duke’s Next Newsroom Live Streaming Now
--It is about 1:20 p.m. EST and the Next Newsroom discussion is being live streamed now.
Next Newsroom, Building Duke’s Campus Newsroom
--I am at Duke University to join the discussion defined here: If you could build the ideal newsroom from scratch, what would it look like? WeR...
Meet Representative Journalism’s Advisory Board
--Now that we have our Northfield, Minnesota Community Reporting Fellowship posted at JournalismJobs.com, I am sure more people will be interested in...
The New Yorker, Blogs, PJNet and the Future
--Last night I went to my, I swear, last, panel discussion on Blogs and Journalism. This one sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club. Also I finally got ...
Great Reporting Fellowship in Minnesota; Start Now
--Want the freedom to do high quality, ethically sound journalism in an inviting atmosphere; then this one-year fellowship might be perfect for you...
There’s a Plethora of Nonprofit News Models
--Miller-Clune, a magazine with the catch line, Turning Research into Solutions, posted an article recently entitled: The Bottom Line for Nonprofit ...
Want Innovators? Turn to Newspaper Newsrooms
--Okay, I know it is hard to believe, however, the State of the News Media 2008 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism reports: Increasingly, th...
Want Innovators? Turn to Newspaper Newsrooms
--Okay, I know it is hard to believe, however, the State of the News Media 2008 by the Project for Excellence in Journalism reports: Increasingly, th...
State of the News Media 2008 — It’s More Troubled
--Here is the first sentence of the State of the News Media 2008 report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism: The state of the American news...
Citizen Journalism: Atlanta Tornado Updates
--I am in Minnesota, so have missed the Atlanta tornado, but this from Grayson Daughters who is on the ground reporting: Mention that cit. journalist...
Meet the Northfield Representative Journalism Team
--Chris Densmore, Chris Peck and I spent a big part of yesterday with our Northfield, Minnesota collaborators at Locally Grown, where the first Repr...
Suggestions for Reinventing Journalism
--Maurreen Skowran provides a short list of sites and reports aimed at trying to “rehabiliate’ journalism. Representative Journalism is ...
Reporter Wanted: Representative Journalism Trial Project
--I have been hiding for the past week, but am back and am happy to announce we are looking to find the right journalist for our Representative Journ...
Be Ashoka Fellow to Change Journalism — $3 Million Funding
--This from a press release at the We Media 2008 conference: Three-Year Grant Offers a Chance for 30 Innovators Across the Globe To Foster Social ...
We Media Miami 2008 - More Day Two
--I’m back: //
We Media Conference Miami 2008 - Day Two
--I am back with live blogging: //
Kennesaw State University Course on Internet Literacy
--I was in a We Media Conference 2008 session entitled: the citizen’s guide to media literacy. I told of Jorge Perez’s course at Kennesaw State...
We Media Conference 2008 More Information
--I am back with some live thinking, live blogging: //
Live Thinking from We Media 2008 in Miami
--Hello All: I am trying Cover It Live for the First Time, will it work. We are about to find out. //
An Adult Tries $100 Computer
--I am at the Computation and Journalism Conference at Georgia Tech. It has been keeping me so occupied that I can’t be touting the Representat...
Witt’s Representative Journalism Funded for $51,000
--Hello Eric Von Hippel and thank you for convincing me that “free revealing” works.Several months ago, as regular readers of the PJNet.o...
Can journalism live without ads? We Will Test It
--Here is the first paragraph of commentary in the Miami Herald yesterday by Edward Wasserman, Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington a...
PBS Can Survive by Filling TV News Void
--There is commentary in the New York Times about the decline of PBS; it is becoming more and more irrelevant. For example, the writer Charles McGrat...
Let a Georgia Kid on Your Site and Go to Jail for Five Years
--I received an email from Paul Arne, co-chair of the technology group and the privacy and security group at the law firm Morris, Manning & Marti...
Live Blogging the Birth of a Baby
--On Sunday I wrote about this cool program Cover It Live that Robert Rhyne Armstrong used to live blog SoCon08. Later at our new SoCon08 Network sit...
MediaWeek: CNN to Take on YouTube
--This from today’s MediaWeek: Time Warner’s CNN this week will enter YouTube territory with the launch of iReport.com, a new Web site built en...
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Comments
Thank you for the information Leonard. Looking forward to meeting you tonight!
Would be neat if attendees could recommend their favorite sources (books, blogs, forums, etc.) to learn more about social networking. I'm currently reading The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Press Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing & Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly (2007). A great, practical read. Would be super to leave SoCon with a plan for further study, perhaps in the form of a list put on several of SoCon marketing guru sites.
Will there be any attendees with an interest in non-profit enterprise? Are there any social entrepreneurs in the bunch?
Thanks for helping make SoCon08 happen Leonard. I got so much out of last year's event. looking forward to the weekend.
(That idea of taking a picture of myself didn't work. Yucko!)
Thanks, Sherry, but it is a team effort to get it jumpstarted and really works because the Southeast's blogging, social networking, social media, technology etc communities bring so much to the table.
Thanks for your passion and enthusiasm for SoCon08. I am forever thankful that you made this happen again.
