OJR shutting down too?
Well here’s a headscratcher: The Annenberg School of Journalism is shutting down the Online Journalism Review. Editor Robert Niles posted the announcement today:
After a decade, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication has suspended publication of OJR.
One of OJR’s goals over the years has been to help mid-career journalists make a successful transition from other media to online reporting and production. I’m pleased to say that USC Annenberg will continue to provide support in that area, through the Knight Digital Media Center. I encourage OJR readers to click over to the KDMC website and its blogs, if you are not already a regular reader there.
The decision to suspend OJR for now means that I have left the University of Southern California. But I am not going offline. I will continue to write, daily, about new media and journalism at my new website, SensibleTalk.com. I hope that many of you will click over and visit me there.
No reason for the shut down was posted. Shoot, this has me more upset than the eXile story.