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Today, DigitalJournal.com is a social news site powered by people just like you. Made up of professional journalists, citizen journalists, bloggers, passionate writers and regular Joes and Janes, DigitalJournal.com covers news and issues of the day.

Working as a digital journalist (or a blogger) isn't easy. There are some essential skills that you will have to master to be good at it.

Newswise provides quality news for journalists, media professionals, and anyone interested in knowledge-based news content. Subscribers get research results, feature pitches, breaking news and experts delivered directly to their email.

Follow public posts from interesting and famous people Add celebrities, journalists, photographers, and more to your circles to see what they're sharing publicly.

Mozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing with the web. We've got new tools for you to use, projects to help you get started, and a global community of creators - educators, filmmakers, journalists, developers, youth - all making and learning together.

Journalism++ is a network of companies and individuals who share a common brand and stand for common values. This manifesto lays out the 10 points that make us who we are. We are news nerds. We are journalists, developers, designers or project managers who share a common passion for news and technology.

The site compresses all articles published on national newspaper websites, on BBC news, and Sky news online, into a series of numbers based on 15 character strings (using a hash function) and then stores them in a fast access database. When someone pastes in some text and clicks 'compare', the churn engine compresses the text entered and then searches for similar compressions (or 'common hashes'). If the engine finds any articles where the similarity is greater than 20%, then it suggests the article may be churn. Churnalism.com is powered off the back of the database of over three million compressed articles in journalisted.com.

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Mynewsdesk makes your news releases, PR distribution and SEO work even easier. Watch your stories spread through social media and networks. Top Google searches. And ultimately spark new business. All in just a click or two. Is this possible? Absolutely. With our news exchange site, your press material, blogs, images and videos reach thousands of registered journalists, editorial desks and opinion makers. At the same time, we enhance your existing network and strengthen the relationships with your influencers.

"OSoMe (awe*some) is a joint project of the Network Science Institute (IUNI), the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) at SICE, and the Media School at Indiana University. OSoMe unites data scientists and journalists in studying the role of media and technology in society, and curbing the spread of misinformation online and the manipulation of social media. Here we highlight tools, findings, publications, and resources."

A new kind of news platform. Wikitribune is a news platform that brings journalists and a community of volunteers together. We want to make sure that you read fact-based articles that have a real impact in both local and global events. And that stories can be easily verified and improved.

"Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy. It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical spaces. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector, watching for unexpected guests and unwanted intruders. We designed Haven for investigative journalists, human rights defenders, and people at risk of forced disappearance to create a new kind of herd immunity. By combining the array of sensors found in any smartphone, with the world's most secure communications technologies, like Signal and Tor, Haven prevents the worst kind of people from silencing citizens without getting caught in the act."

Data visualization tools are being used more and more to help bloggers, copywriters and journalists alike illustrate abstract concepts or complicated data that would be boring if presented in a simple chart or spreadsheet. It is highly recommended you not just blog, but make interesting, engaging and useful blogs that offer visual elements beyond what you commonly see in most blogs.