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ESPN.com launches redesign
ESPN.com has redesigned it’s website to make it less cluttered, easier to navigate and more advertiser friendly.
Why Online Ads Are Weathering the Recession
BusinessWeek reports that Internet advertising seems to be holding up. Read more »
ABC News releases iPhone app
ABC News has released a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch uers that includes video, breaking news alerts and other features.
Great multimedia work in 2008
Poynter’s Regina McCombs highlights projects that combine multiple media forms and storytelling techniques to provide journalistic information. Read more »
Top News Sites of 2008 from NewsKnife
The Top News Sites of 2008 is compiled by www.newsknife.com from their analysis of listings by news sites at Google News during 2008. Read more »
Ethnic Hyperlocal News Network Launched in L.A.
Paul Lamb reports that a very interesting project billed as the “first-ever online network of ethnic citizen journalists” was launched last week in Los Angeles.
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Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington says he thinks display advertising revenue is going to fall of a cliff in January according to a number of content sites he’s spoken with who rely on advertising for revenue.
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Free course on Medicine in the Media
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering a free 3-day course for journalists that welcomes citizen journalist and blogger applicants. Read more »
Digital Media Leadership Report 2008
This report, produced in October 2008, attempts to distill key ideas and lessons from the The Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg School for Communication conferences and its blog. It is organized in the form of lists that will be updated and enriched at least several times a year. Read more »
Cable, Internet News Sources Growing in Popularity
Among daily news sources, only cable and Internet news have shown significant gains in popularity since 2006, while all other media are stable or declining, Gallup reports. Read more »
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Blog Scan: Elsewhere Online
- Bordering on Accuracy about Torture
- “Censorship” Author Responds
- LA Times Lists ‘Foreclosures’ in Top Web Classifieds Categories
- Authors: Government Censorship Better than Corporate
- A New Milestone: Consumers Union Buys Consumerist Blog
- Principles for a New Media Literacy
- GateHouse v NY Times Co.: Not So Simple After All
- Global Voices Needs Our Help
- Creative Commons Party Tonite, San Francisco
- New Berkman Report: State of Digital Media
- Even Apple music wants to be free, sort of
- CES: Consumer gadgets still hot, hotter than cars at least
- CES: No wait for taxi
- Sanjay Gupta: He is a doctor AND he plays one on TV!
- Lourdes-based “Catholic Google” may be rebaptised
- Apple kicks off Macworld farewell tour
- How much are those front-page Times ads?
- Hulu keeps bringing in the fans, even without Sarah Palin
- Steve Jobs: I’m well thanks, but I have a weight problem
- A Catholic Google? Are Muslim, Jewish or other Googles coming?
- More from around the web »
Guest CyberJournalist.net Bloggers
- Hyper-Local salary database released submitted by Erik Gliedman
- People’s Republic of Lindsay Toler submitted by Oscar Martinez
- Multimedia presentation: Mother to all submitted by Brea Jones
- Lessons From One Year of Blogging submitted by Craig Stoltz
- Beijing blogger uses community-news site submitted by Oscar Martinez
- You, too, can be a CyberJournalist! Submit blog posts to CyberJournalist.net now »
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Great Work
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Future of Media
- Why Online Ads Are Weathering the Recession
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Innovation
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- ‘Video Your Vote’ in action
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Citizen Media
- Digital Media Leadership Report 2008
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- Start a neighborhood blog
- Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai
- Internet freedom in Egypt
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Tips & Tools
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