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"15 Years of Wired: A Look Back." Wired, Jan. 1, 2008. (The magazine was started in 1993 and the Web site in 1994.)
"Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video." Mark Glaser, MediaShift, Jan. 3, 2008.
"Consumer Electronics Show 2008." PC Magazine, Jan. 6, 2008. (See also: "Bill Gates Keynote." Microsoft, Jan. 6. 2008.) (Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975.)
"Campaign Coverage for the Digerati." 2008 Technology Voters' Guide. News.com Special Coverage.
The White House begins its first blog. Jan. 2008. (See also: Jan. 16 post from President George W. Bush.) (The White House Web site started in 1994.)

MacWorld Keynote by Steve Jobs, Apple, Jan. 15, 2008. (Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduced their first computer in 1976.)
"Launching EveryBlock." (Interview with Adrian Holovaty) Al Tompkins, Jan. 23, 2008. (See also: "In memory of chicagocrime.org." Adrian Holovaty.com, January 31, 2008.)
"Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion." Ari Levy and Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, Feb. 1, 2008. (See also: "Microsoft's $44.6 Billion Offer to Yahoo." CNBC.com, Feb. 1, 2008.) (David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo in 1994.)
"Feb 5, 2008: the day Super Tuesday became the 'Mashup Election'." Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Feb. 6, 2008. (Radio was the new wireless technology in the 1924 presidential election.)

"A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid Instant Photography." PC World, Feb. 8, 2008.
"The Coming Ad Revolution." Esther Dyson, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2008. (Dyson was the founding chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in 1998.)
"Online Tributes Memorialize Northern Illinois University Shooting Victims." Jenna Wortham, Underwire, Feb. 15, 2008. (See also: "School Shootings 1997-2008")
"HD DVD: Just another brick in the wall of defunct formats." Steve Guttenberg, C/Net Audiophiliac, Feb. 19, 2008.
"Twitter." Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, Feb. 25, 2008. (The Twitter microblogging service was founded in 2006.)
"Electric Minds -- the future of the Web (circa 1996)." Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs, March 17, 2008.
"Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot." David Pogue, The New York Times, March 20, 2008. (Pure Digital Technologies released an early version of the Flip Video camera in 2006.)
"2008 is the year of gaming."
Don Reisinger, CNET News, April 15, 2008.
"Web 2.0 debates internet's future." Maggie Shiels, BBC News, April 26, 2008.
"Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web." Noam Cohen, The New York Times, May 12, 2008.
"China's Earthquake: The Twitter Story." Fons Tuinstra, E-Media Tidbits, May 12, 2008.
"Knight News Challenge 2008 Winners." May 14, 2008.
"Spielberg pops up on Seesmic." Jemima Kiss, PDA: The Digital Content Blog, May 17, 2008. (Loic Le Meur founded the Seesmic video discussion site in 2007.)
"News unfiltered: YouTube embraces citizen journalism." David Chartier, ars technica, May 20, 2008.
"D: All Things Digital" Media and Technology Conference. Hosted by The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. May 27-29, 2008.
"Who Will Rule The New Internet?" Josh Quittner, Time Magazine, June 4, 2008.
"How new media affected Clinton campaign." Joe Garofili, San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2008.
"Will you read Microsoft's obit here?" Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 9, 2008.
"Tech's 15 turning points." Neil McAllister, InfoWorld, June 10, 2008.
"Will 3G iPhone Help Push Geo-Based News?" Paul Lamb, Idea Lab, June 10, 2008.
"The Web Time Forgot." Alex Wright, The New York Times, June 17, 2008.
"From ARPANET to Blogging." The Newseum's Paul Sparrow gives a brief history of the Internet. (Video posted on the Newseum's Web site.)
"Mobile Web Reaches Critical Mass." BBC News, July 10, 2008.
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Nicholas Carr, Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008.
"Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?" By Daniel J. Solove, Scientific American, August 2008.
"Dems' Convention will be Online Media's Party." By Richard Siklos, Fortune, August 22, 2008.
"Facebook Hits 100 Million Users." By Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, August 25, 2008.
"The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online." By Mark Glaser, MediaShift, August 28, 2008.
"Palin's Wikipedia Entry Gets Overhaul." By Yuki Noguchi, NPR, August 29, 2008.
"Chrome: It's not a browser, it's the first web OS." By Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Sept. 2, 2008.
"Tag Clouding the RNC." By Al Tompkins, Al's Morning Meeting, Sept. 4, 2008. (See also: Video about building a Tag Cloud.)
"Google: You've Come a Long Way, Baby!" By Lance Ulanoff, PC Magazine, Sept. 7, 2008. In September 1998 the Google company opened its office in Menlo Park, California. Google.com was still in beta. (See also: Google Milestones and Google 10th Birthday.)
"Blog History 101: Scott Rosenberg Traces the Blogosphere's Origins." By Simon Owens, MediaShift, Sept. 22, 2008.
"RNC 08 Report Preserving Tweets for History's Sake." By Maryn McKenna, E-Media Tidbits, Oct. 15, 2008.
Web 2.0 Summit 2008. Nov. 5-7, 2008.
"Barack Obama's use of social media." By JD Lasica, Social Media, Nov. 15, 2008.
"IBM Study Shows Consumers Will Accept New Forms of Advertising If Companies Follow Their Rules." IBM, Nov. 17, 2008.
"Breaking News Online: A Short History and Timeline." By Mindy McAdams, Teaching Online Journalism, Nov. 29, 2008.
Pew Reports:

"Increased use of video-sharing sites." Jan. 9, 2008.
"A Portrait of Early Adopters." Feb. 21, 2008.
"Mobile Access to Data and Information." March 5, 2008.
"Writing, Technology and Teens." April 24, 2008.
"The Internet and the 2008 Election." June 15, 2008.
"Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources." August 17, 2008.
"Podcast Downloading 2008." August 28, 2008.

THE MEDIA

"After a decade of high hopes, there are increasing concerns about the Web's ability to meet the news industry's financial challenges." (Source: "The State of the News Media: Online Section." Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2008.)
ABC News and Facebook sponsor the Republican and Democratic New Hampshire presidential primary debates on Jan. 5, 2008.
"Introducing... the new nightly.msnbc.com." Brian Williams introduces the redesigned NBC Nightly News Web site. Jan. 9, 2008. (NBC created their first Web site in 1995.)
'Getting Smart About News Podcasts.' Amy Gahran, Contentious.com, Jan. 23, 2008.
"Anatomy of a local breaking
news story." (Las Vegas Sun online coverage of the Monte Carlo hotel fire) Rob Curley, Jan. 26, 2008.
CBS News anchor Katie Couric introduces a new CBS YouTube channel. Posted on YouTube, Feb. 1, 2008. (A CBS station tested a videotex interactive system in 1982.)
"Facebook: The rival to
newswire services everywhere?" Helen Walters, Next/BusinessWeek.com, Feb. 6, 2008. (Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004.)
The Tribune, Gannett, Hearst and New York Times companies announce the creation of the quadrantONE online ad network on Feb. 15, 2008. (In 1995 a consortium of newspaper companies called the New Century Network was formed. It closed in 1998.)
"Newspaper Next 2.0 -- Making the Leap Beyond Newspaper Companies." American Press Institute, Feb. 2008.
"Words, Images and Sounds. Multimedia components enhance journalists' abilities to present compelling stories online." Presstime, Feb. 2008.
"We Media/Zogby Interactive poll." "...the online survey documented the shift away from traditional sources of news, such as newspapers and TV, to the Internet." Feb. 27, 2008.
"Wikipedia in the Newsroom." Donna Shaw, AJR, Feb./March 2008. (Wikipedia formally began in 2001.)
"Where's the Innovation in Business Models?" Chris O'Brien, Idea Lab, March 13, 2008.
"Dusting Off the Archive for the Web." Richard Perez-Pena, The New York Times, March 17, 2008.
"Out of Print: The Death and Life of the American Newspaper." Eric Alterman, The New Yorker, March 31, 2008.
"Google Earth, New York Times Team Up." Leslie Rule, Idea Lab, April 13, 2008.
"Can Newspaper Classifieds Really Be Saved?" Steve Outing, ReinventingClassifieds.com, April 18, 2008.
"CBS Corporation to Acquire CNET." CBS, May 15, 2008.
"The Newspapers: Rating The Top 25 Newspaper Websites." Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St, June 3, 2008.
"Sad News About Tim Russert Broken By Wikipedia?" Jon Fine, BusinessWeek, June 13, 2008. (See also: NBC/MSNBC coverage about Tim Russert)
"Murky Boundaries: What are the guidelines for the personal blogs of journalists who work for mainstream news organizations?" Kevin Rector, AJR, June/July 2008.
"WTSP-Ch. 10 seeking 20 citizen journalists to help gather news." Eric Deggans, Tampabay.com, July 9, 2008.
"Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million." Kara Swisher, All Things Digital, July 11, 2008.
"Some thoughts on the Twitter/iPhone reporting experiment." Etan Horowitz, OrlandoSentinel.com, July 14, 2008.
"Moving to Mobile." NAA, July 2008.
"TV Networks Rewrite the Definition of a News Bureau." Brian Stelter, The New York Times, August 12, 2008.
"NBC sees new media habits form with Olympic games." David Bauder, Associated Press, August 13, 2008.
"Politics and the New Media." Nieman Reports, Summer 2008.
"Charlie Gibson On Familiar Territory and New Ground." By Gail Shister, TVNewser, August 26, 2008.
"Handheld Headlines: News organizations are embracing content aimed at cell phones and other mobile devices as part of their survival strategy in the digital age." Arielle Emmett, AJR, August/Sept. 2008.
"Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time." By Punit Soni, Official Google Blog, Sept. 8, 2008. (See also: "Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead." By Stephen Shankland, CNET News, Sept. 8, 2008.)
Online News Association Conference, Sept. 11-13, 2008.
"A No-Paper Newspaper." By Daniel McGinn, Newsweek, Sept. 15, 2008.
"Train Crash Leads LA Times to Create Django Database on Deadline." By Chip Scanlan, Chip on Your Shoulder, Sept. 18, 2008.
"Newspapers' Web Revenue Is Stalling." By Stephanie Clifford, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2008.
"Blogging journalists: survey results pt.1: context and methodology." By Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, Oct. 14, 2008.
Video: "The Future of Journalism" Panel Discussion.
Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 6, 2008. (See also: "Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy." CSM, Oct. 28, 2008.)
"Election Day Homepage Highlights." By Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, Nov. 5, 2008.
"SAJA Coverage of Mumbai Attacks." SAJA Forum, Nov. 27, 2008.

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Awards

2008 NAA
Digital Edge Awards
(Archived list of winners)
(Archived list of finalists)
Sigma Delta Chi Award Winners
(Archived list of winners)
2008 Editor & Publisher
EPpy awards
(Archived list of winners)
(Archived list of finalists)
2008 Webby Awards
(Archived list winners)
2008 Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards
(Archived list of winners)
(Archived list of finalists)

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