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New Media Women Entrepreneurs Competition winners announced
July 16, 2008
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation have awarded three $10,000 grants for entrepreneurial news ideas - for public storytelling installations, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community and a news site for and by Latinas - as part of the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative. Read more »
Beijing blogger uses community-news site
July 8, 2008
The first journalist connected to The Dallas Morning News in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics is … Lindsay Toler, a University of Missouri student who is chronicling her experience on neighborsgo.com, the citizen-media site of The Morning News. Read more »
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New ways to detect doctored photos
July 6, 2008
PBS reports on a “digital detective” inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked. Watch the video of the story and then take the test: Examine nine photographs and guess if they are fake or real.
EveryBlock launches two new cities
July 1, 2008
EveryBlock has launched sites for two new cities, Charlotte and Philadelphia.
ProPublica launches
June 26, 2008
ProPublica has launched its nonprofit news web site — “an investigative publishing platform that will produce original stories focusing on betrayal of the public trust and abuse of power.” The site launched in tandem its first big story, “The investigation of Al Hurra,” which it did in partnership with “60 minutes.
Newspapers create public notices Web site
June 23, 2008
South Dakota’s weekly and daily newspapers have created a free, text-searchable Web site that includes thousands of government public notices from across the state, The Brookings Register reports.
The site, www.sdpublicnotices.com, is a database of public notices such as the minutes of school boards, city councils and county commissions. Once the public notices are published in the local newspaper, The Brookings Register says, they are uploaded to the Web site where viewers can search by keywords, county , city or newspaper.
How to get into business school
June 16, 2008
BusinessWeek.com has launched a new MBA blog for aspiring business school students called “Getting In.” Read more »
Most influential blogs: Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon
June 14, 2008
Vanity Fair has produced perhaps the definitive blog matrix, placing the most prominent and influential blogs on a vertical axis of news to opinion (Consumerist to PostSecret) and a horizontal axis of scurrilous to earnest (TMZ to SCOTUSblog). With eye-catching, clickable icons and brief pop-up descriptions of each blog, it’s pretty and practical. And CyberJournalist.net is honored to be included in the Earnest News quadrant, along such luminaries as Jim Romenesko and Talking Points Memo. Thanks VF! Read more »
Boston.com does good
June 12, 2008
Boston.com has launched a new Do Good site, which helps people get involved with various community organizations and nonprofits across New England. Read more »
2008 Casey Medal Winners
June 10, 2008
The winner of the 2008 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism is washingtonpost.com for its special report on “Fixing D.C.’s Schools.” Read more »