PBS MediaShift Mark Glaser says the short answer is that the Annenberg School is going through a major transition, with a new dean and a new director of the journalism school and they want to rethink the way that OJR operates at the school.
Robert Niles, who edited OJR and recently launched
Sensibletalk.com, notes that the site suffered because of the lack of faculty dedicated to online journalism. "Without an online journalism faculty, there wasn’t enough soil for this plant to grow in." || USC Annenberg
statement. ||
Howard Owens: Don't forget the great work of
Matt Welch,
Ken Layne and other OJR writers.