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The State of the News Media 2008 is the fifth edition of our annual report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism on the health and status of American journalism.

Infosys consult George Eby Mathew blogs about how he has seen reporting change at Media 08: "For the first time since my reporting days ended in 1997, I experienced that the newsroom has changed forever."

Al Jazeera Director-General Wadah Khanfar and M&G Editor-in-Chief Ferial Haffajee on this years list.

My Media '08 presentation on SlideShare

"I was particularly fascinated by watching Mohamed Nanabhay from Al-Jazeera. His presentation was very good but it was more watching him in action, as I was sitting behind him. He was live blogging, on Twitter and taking photos for Flickr. The guy is one

Elements of the popular social networking website Facebook could be blocked to UAE net users next year as part of the telecoms regulator's rollout of its forthcoming new Internet Penetration Policy (IPP).

Tracking the origins of William Gibson's (Neuromancer, Johnny Neumonic) quote "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." I remembered the quote this afternoon when I needed to put something up on my groups (New Media) intranet site.

BBC’s commercial arm will start distributing shows through iTunes by next week. My team at AlJazeera is already distributing some of our most popular programming on iTunes as podcasts already...

The plot thickens : "Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday."

We've also been hearing these high CPMs - Rafat argues that this is just like the internet bubble ad market and should eventually stabalise around $5 - $10

Paul Bradshaw shares his experience introducing j-school students about Twitter. Somethings the more tech savvy just assume that people will get...

BBC editorial staff have been told to be cautious over the use of photos from social networking websites, saying the practice raises a number of legal and ethical issues.

"I really really have to commend Al Jazeera for their coverage of this situation. I hope someone picks this up ... a story about Al Jazeera is redefining GLOBAL coverage. They are millions of steps ahead of CNN and BBC with less resources." HT: Abdu

"I’m in a Guardian digital training awareness workshop ... where we’re learning about bookmarking, blogging and social networking, and then later today we’ll do photos and audio interviews."

YouTube style site for user-contributed content to CNN. The kicker? They paid $750k for the URLs ireport.com and i-report.com. It will only feature user submitted stories and will be mostly self-moderated...HT cybersoc.com

"Welcome to a brand new beta site for unfiltered, uncensored user-powered news. CNN is providing the tools. You take it from there! Report, upload and comment on the stories you find most interesting and important."

Google Mashup of BBC Network of Correspondents, Bureaus and Stringers (ht : cybersoc.com)

Jarvis's experience reporting with a Nokia phone at Davos. Easier to get access than those with lots of gear, unobtrusive, unthreatening and you can take video without people realising (privacy please?). And no need for a larger story.

Fantastic map of undersea cables that connect our world. (HT EthanZ)

Gaza and Kenya are in "crisis" - I'd love a pay bump but this hardly constitutes a "crisis".

Small to-do list go get journalists up to speed with new media..

But GMG digital czar Simon Waldman accomplished the primary goal — demystifying all this web 2.0 stuff and making it obviously easy. Like our JazCamp idea...

Some good advice if you're about to build something online

Are we ready to really know our politicians?

Just saw this on the Sensepost blog (http://www.sensepost.com/blog/1665.html) - "thats pretty much the Internet broken, especially when you consider that all you needed to have exposed was: your IP Stack."
Get patching kiddies...

Beginning later this year, Guardian Unlimited will be using Pluck’s SiteLife Social Media Platform, a package of tools that create blogs, photo-sharing, content ratings, reader comments, profiles, social networking and forums.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

The BBC edited out part of an interview where Benazir Bhutto told Sir David Frost that Bin Laden had been killed. After accussations of censorship they linked to the original interview on the AlJazeera Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ)

Nifty map by FT.com showing the Top 10 Oil Producers, Consumers and traffic in between.

This is super super super cool! Through a combination of some glue code, Amazon's S3 Storage network and EC2 computing platform they crunched through terabytes of data to produce PDF files of old articles.

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UNICEF, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and Google have launched "Our Stories" (www.ourstories.org), a joint initiative to preserve and share the histories and identities of cultures around the world by making personal stories available online

What has the world been obssessed with this year...