CCJ Tools

The Online Journalism Review collected a list of sites and programs to help online journalists quickly and easily begin using multimedia and the internet to advance reporting and storytelling. The applications they assembled are low-cost, and many are even free.

On the Online Journalism Review website it is written that "The ethics of online journalism are, ultimately, no different than the ethics of journalism...That said, here are some basic qualities that any good online writer ought to demonstrate..."

To the outsider, military rank is at once baffling and yet readily understandable once you learn the basics.

In her December 1, 2006 column on the TVNewday website, columnist Mary Collins wrote:

Huliq.com describes itself as an independent news organization whose mission is to present news stories submitted by student and citizen journalists.

The Black Box is a system Reed designed to help reporters handle unruly information. It aids them in sorting through and prioritizing the information they have and helps reporters quickly and clearly make the case for their stories to their editors. With the system, writing a story is essentially boiled into four phases:

Citizens frequently complain that political coverage is boring and seems to have no bearing on their lives. Keeping your audience caring about what you are covering is at the heart of any journalist's mission, but it is particularly important in political coverage. Here are a few ways to keep people involved by showing how politics matters to them.

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
Write and edit with online readers' needs and habits
in mind. Web usability studies show that readers tend
to skim over sites rather than read them intently.
They also tend to be more proactive than
print readers or TV viewers, hunting for
information rather than passively taking in
what you present to them.

Think about your target audience.
Because your readers are getting their news
online, chances are they are more
interested in Internet-related stories than TV
viewers or newspaper readers, so it may make sense
to put greater emphasis on such stories. Also, your
site potentially has a global reach, so consider
whether you want to make it understandable
to a local, national or international
audience, and write and edit with that in
mind.

Avoid Political Partisanship. You will cut off 50 percent of your effectiveness if you investigate only one political party or even have a special leaning toward investigations of one party.