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WEEK 12 – Blogs worth monitoring

1) Global Voices (http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/).

Finally, a website that brings the ‘blogs of the world’ together.  Ethan Zuckerman along with a group of international volunteers aim to congregate all kinds of citizen media to create a ‘global blogosphere’.  The site encourages people to understand other countries and how they function in regards to citizen journalism and multi-media. 

If I want to search music blogs in Gambia, for instance, I can select the country and the topic to view all the blogs relating to my search.  This idea is a fantastic creation that enables bloggers, and citizen journalists from all over the world to interact and learn about another country.

2) Project for Excellence in Journalism (http://www.journalism.org/).

Journalism.org is an American website that evaluates how the news is being produced, and helps improve the performance of the journalist.  

I believe that this website is a productive tool because it provides information to journalists, and advice to students wanting to pursue a career in the field.  Quality journalism is what newspapers and other publications strive for, and this site helps journalists improve their standards making it even more beneficial for the journalist as well as the publication. In particular, The State of the News Media 2008, which is an annual report focused on the ‘health and status of American journalism’.

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