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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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Center for Sustainable Journalism Launches Juvenile Justice Pro-Am Initiative

June 7, 2010 – 12:05 am

Today the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University launched its Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, a niche pro-am journalism initiative covering juvenile justice issues in Georgia. It combines professional journalism with community-based financial and content support. The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) provides continuing news and information focused on juvenile justice issues and shines [...]

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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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Economist Lisa George: Journalism Survivors Will Earn More

December 17, 2009 – 12:01 am

Lisa George, an empirical economist and professor at Hunter College in New York City, says there probably will be “fewer journalists in the future. But those that remain in the market will probably earn much more.” Here is why, according to George: People who do read internet news focus on many fewer sources than what [...]

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Rosen: News elites endangered as information sources expand

December 9, 2009 – 12:01 am

Jay Rosen, like Clay Shirky in an earlier Future of Journalism interview, says people will be better informed in the future because: “We don’t have to depend on a single elite for our information,” and he adds, “I’m not optimistic about the survival of this cloistered elite that once monopolized the news system.”

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