Be a CyberJournalist! Contribute now
July 17, 2008
Check out some of the great recent guest posts from CyberJournalist.net readers here and contribute your own posts to CyberJournalist.net by submitting at http://www.cyberjournalist.net/submit.
Lessons From One Year of Blogging
July 15, 2008
Guest Post by Craig Stolz
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One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social media"]. Read more »
This post was submitted by Craig Stoltz.
CyberJournalist.net redesigns
November 25, 2007
Welcome to the new and improved CyberJournalist.net!
This is the site’s sixth redesign since it launched seven years ago. This time, the site has been given a complete overhaul. Among the improvements you’ll find are a cleaner design, simpler navigation and some new tools. Read more »
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November 18, 2007
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Journalists’ blogs list now a wiki: Add your blogs
July 26, 2007
CyberJournalist.net recently converted it’s famous list of journalists’ weblogs (both on news sites and independent ones) into a wiki so that you can update and add to the list yourself.
When CyberJournalist.net started the list 6 years ago, there weren’t that many news blogs to keep track of. Now it’s become virtually impossible to keep up, so hopefully you, our loyal readers, can help.
Check it out at http://wiki.cyberjournalist.net/jblogs and help grow the list!
Top online media stories of 2006
December 27, 2006
Here is CyberJournalist.net’s annual list of the top online journalism stories of the year, based on the most popular entries on CyberJournalist.net in 2006.
Who’s blogging about CyberJournalist.net
July 27, 2006
We’ve added a few new features, all aimed at making CyberJournalist.net more interactive and more useful.
In the right column, now you can see a continually updated list of what sites have blogged recently about CyberJournalist.net, including links to those sites. Link to CyberJournalist.net or any post on the site and your blog should cycle through automatically.
We’ve also updated the Recent Comments list in the same column, to highlight the names of people posting the comments.
And we’ve added a tag cloud of some of the most popular topics on CyberJournalist.net. This is new, so most old entries haven’t been tagged yet, but they will over time, so the cloud will grow.
If you have any comments on the new features or other suggestions, please post them below or email editor (at) cyberjournalist.net.
Add CyberJournalist.net to Google
February 9, 2006
Now you have two new ways to track the latest CyberJournalist.net headlines:
Click here to add CyberJournalist.net to your Google homepage.
Click here to try out Google’s new RSS Reader and add CyberJournalist.net to it.
Newsvine.com: New type of news site
January 8, 2006
Newsvine.com, a new type of news site created by four former Disney/ABCNEWs.com employees, is now up and running in beta.
CyberJournalist.net has been invited to join the beta and is impressed with what it’s seen so far.
Top online media stories of 2005
December 29, 2005
Here is CyberJournalist.net’s annual list of the top online journalism stories of the year, based on the most popular entries on CyberJournalist.net in 2005.
The number one story might seem surprising, in a year in which Hurricane Katrina struck and the aftermath of the Asian tsunami was felt. But CyberJournalist.net’s readers have spoken.
Top online media stories of 2005
1. New sites tap into Google Maps to create new ways of conveying information
2. Tsunami: Citizen videos and photos help tell story (Even though it occured at the end of 2004, major traffic in 2005 makes it one of year’s top stories)
3. Hurricane Katrina: TV, newspapers rely on Web to distribute information
4. Online missing persons lists play major role in disasters like tsunami, Hurricane Katrina
5. Citizen media initiatives sprout up across the world and news sites begin soliciting citizen photos regularly. Here is CyberJournalist.net’s growing list of Citizen Media Initiatives.
6. RSS goes mainstream
7. Podcasting takes off
8. Story broken online wins Pulitzer. And then Pulitzers change rules to include online entries in all categories.
9. Wikipedia loses trust
10. Fake tsunami photos fool media
