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Witt to be on ethics, journalism and the digital world panel

September 7, 2010 – 9:08 pm

Come join Leonard Witt Saturday morning here at the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists’ panel discussion: “Move over Scanners…We’re checking TWITTER” Saturday, September 11, 2010 WSB-TV (community room) 1601 W. Peachtree N.E. Atlanta, GA 30309 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. This is no longer your grandfather’s journalism. We now have Twitter, Facebook, Four Square and [...]

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Georgia cuts juvenile justice budget; our JJIE.org is watching

August 30, 2010 – 12:38 am

Our Center for Sustainable Journalism is trying an experiment in niche journalism. Our Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE.org) is the only journalism entity in Georgia reporting on juvenile justice issues daily and persistently. We owe it to the 20,000 kids, the families and employees touched by the system and affected by the policies that the [...]

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Yahoo Media VP Says Niche, We Say JJIE

July 6, 2010 – 3:13 pm

James A. Pitaro, vice president of Yahoo Media, told a New York Times reporter: “If you’re a news start-up, focusing on breadth would be the wrong way to go. What we’re seeing is the market getting increasingly fragmented. And because of that you can survive by owning a niche category.” Of course, we at the [...]

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Media Law in the Digital Age Workshop — Register Now

July 1, 2010 – 1:11 am

Speakers are in place and the agenda is set, now you just have to register for the Media Law in the Digital Age workshop on September 25 at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta. It is co-produced by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard University Law School and the Center for [...]

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Fancher: It Takes a Community to Reinvent Journalism

June 23, 2010 – 12:02 am

Mike Fancher, former 20-year executive editor of the Seattle Times, is writing a Knight Commission white paper on local journalism and he tells Leonard Witt in this Future of Journalism video interview: Have the community at the center of everything you do…Bring people into your thought process. Get the benefit of finding out more precisely [...]

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Firestone: Healthy communities need high quality information

June 16, 2010 – 12:03 am

“Information is just as important to the health of the community as safe streets, good health, and clean air.” That is the basis of the Knight Commission Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age report, according to Charles M. Firestone, director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program. “Oddly enough,” Firestone told Leonard [...]

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Witt panel to address informing communities, sustaining democracy

June 8, 2010 – 4:13 pm

On this Friday, June 11 I will be on a panel that reacts to the The Knight Commission report: Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. The executive summary of the report can be found here. The panel is part of the League of Women Voters National Convention which is being be held in [...]

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20-year-old Discusses Winning Business Plan to Reinvent Journalism

May 4, 2010 – 12:30 am

Want to feel better about the future of journalism? Then read this IM Interview Leonard Witt conducts with Jesse Villanueva, the 20-year-old advertising director of San Diego State University’s The Daily Aztec. He won the first First National Sustainable Journalism Concept-2-Reality Competition sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. Catherine Shen, [...]

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San Diego State Students Win Concept2Reality $1,000 Award

May 3, 2010 – 4:36 pm

Fourth Estate Mobile, a team of MBAs and undergraduates from San Diego State University, won the First National Sustainable Journalism Concept-2-Reality Competition held this past week at Kennesaw State University. The Competition was sponsored by Kennesaw’s Center for Sustainable Journalism, whose mission is “to ensure that high quality, ethically sound journalism remains a part of [...]

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Center for Sustainable Journalism Posts Ads for Two Journalism Fellows

March 29, 2010 – 1:42 pm

The Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University has just posted two ads for its new Visiting Fellow in Professional Journalism Practice program. One posting is for a reporter, the other for an editor. Each are for six-month appointments renewable for up to two years. The visiting reporter fellow is beat specific, aimed at [...]

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