Seven Wonders

We've received dozens of nominations for the Seven Wonders of the Journalism World in the past couple of weeks. Keep them coming in.


We'd like to reinforce the importance of one of this project's goals: to develop a resource that documents those journalists, institutions, events, works, documents and technologies that have made an impact on journalism. So from now until the end of the year, you will have your chance to continue to submit nominations and collaborate with other users to share what you know about Wonders nominees.

Every two weeks we will pay particular attention to one of the categories.

Here's the schedule:

Oct. 8 to 21 -- People
Oct. 22 to Nov. 4 -- Technology
Nov. 5 to 18 -- Works
Nov. 19 to Dec. 2 -- Institutions
Dec. 3 to 16 -- Events
Dec. 17 to 31 -- Documents

How do you participate?

1. Submit a nomination.

2. Share and discuss. We've set up a wiki page for each of the entries we've received. Once you register for the wiki, you can edit and add information and commentary on each nominee's page. Post links to videos, multimedia projects, articles, blog posts -- whatever you think will help others understand the impact each nominee has had on journalism.

What is Poynter going to do with these nominations?

After the first of the year, we will assemble a panel of judges who will select the top nominations from each category based on the content you all provide. This panel will analyze the nominees and, with your help, further narrow down the list. Stay tuned for more details.



The nominees so far:
Documents

• AP Stylebook
• First Amendment
• Freedom of Information Act
• Magna Carta
• National Security Archive
• Negarakrtagama
• The Patriot Act
• United States Constitution

Events

• Gulf War
• Knight-Ridder folding
• Three Mile Island
  
• Tianamen Square Protests of 1989
• Watergate

Institutions

• The American Civil Liberties Union
• American University
  
• The Associated Press
• Buffalo State College
• Caucasus School of Journalism
• CNN
  
• The Comic Book Defense Fund
• The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
  
• Fox News
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• University of Missouri School of Journalism
• TheNew York Times

Works

• All the President's Men
• Eugene Patterson's A Flower for the Graves
• Edward R. Murrow's London broadcasts during WWII
• Edward R. Murrow's description of Buchenwald
• Gettysburg Address
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Noam Chomsky and "Manufacturing consent"
• The New Yorker's 9/11 Cover
• The Pulitzer Prize
• Joshua Pragers's Wall Street Journal Middle Column
• Charles Lewis' "The Buying of the President 2004"
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Technologies

• Blog
• Computers
• Databases
• Digital Still Camera
• Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
• Google
• Internet
• Microwave and Satellite for live video coverage
• Movable Type
• Newspaper Delivery
  
• Online Newspapers
• Radio
• Shorthand
• Spellcheck
• Survey Sampling
• Web
• Wireless Access

Journalists

• Roy Aarons, Founded the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
• Barry Bearak, New York Times
• Tim Berners-Lee, Hypertext pioneer
• Carl Bernstein, investigative reporter for the Washington Post
• Louis Boccardi, former president and CEO of The Associated Press
• George Bodarky, assistant news director WFUV 90.7 FM
• Kate Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Michael Brick, New York Times writer
• Tom Brokaw, television journalist
• Truman Capote, writer for the New Yorker-- author of "In Cold Blood"
• C.J. Chivers, New York Times journalist
• Brian Collister, investigative reporter
• W.E.B. Du Bois, journalist (civil rights)
• Lane Degregory, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times journalist
• Lisa DeMoraes, Washington Post television columnist
• David Finkel, Washington Post explanatory journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Ben Franklin, publisher and printer
• Jon Franklin, author
• Mario Garcia, newspaper designer
• Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable type printing and mechanical printing
• Ferial Haffajee, first woman editor of the Mail & Guardian (S. Africa)
  
• Howard Hays, The Riverside Press-Enterprise publisher and activist
• Anne Hull, Washington Post diversity writer
• Elliot Jaspin, Computer assisted reporter
• Tom Junod, Esquire writer
• Ryszard Kapuschinski, Polish journalist
• Bill Kovach, founder of the Committee of Concerned Journalists
• Mark Liebovich, The New York Times
• Rudy Maxa, radio journalist
• Robert C. Maynard, First African-American to own a major daily newspaper
• Ralph McGill, Editor/publisher Atlanta Constitution, racial tolerance advocate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Hamid Mir, Pakistani veteran journalist
• Philip Meyer, pioneer in social science research journalism
• Bill Moyers, journalist for PBS and Emmy Lifetime Achievement award winner
• Edward R. Murrow, television news pioneer
• Paperboys
• Gene Patterson, Pulitzer Prize winner, former CEO Times Publishing Co./chairman of the Poynter Institute
• Daniel Pearl, slain American journalist for the Wall Street Journal
• Ernie Pyle, War correspondent for Scripps Howard newspapers
• John Quinn, newspaper executive with Gannett Co.
• Readers
• Gerald S. Robinson
• Paul Salopek, The Chicago Tribune
  
• Cindy Simoneau, Editor and professor of Journalism
• Gary Smith, sportswriter, Sports Illustrated
• Hazel Brannon Smith, first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize
• Jon Stewart, media satirist/news critic, host of The Daily Show
  
• Pat Stith, Pulitzer Prize winner, investigative reporter at The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
• I.F. Stone, investigative journalist
• Hank Stuever, staff writer for The Washington Post
• William Strunk Jr., author
• Gay Talese, literary journalist
• Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist and author of The History of the Standard Oil Company
• Hunter Thompson, founder of the New Journalism movement
• Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate and journalist
• E.B. White, author
• Bob Woodward, investigative journalist/editor for The Washington Post
• Lawrence Young, Newspaper editor
  
• John Peter Zenger, printer, editor and journalists whose landmark trial helped develop freedom of the press