CyberJournalist.net and API form publishing alliance

Reston, VA - The Media Center at the American Press Institute (www.americanpressinstitute.org/mediacenter) and Cyberjournalist.net (www.cyberjournalist.net) have formed a publishing alliance to jointly encourage better online and multi-platform convergence journalism.

CyberJournalist.net, a Web site for journalists that focuses on the Internet, media convergence and new technologies, offers tips, news and commentary about online journalism, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool. The site features a Great Work Gallery of outstanding online journalism; a Weblog Blog that tracks Weblogs' impact on journalism; and the CyberJournalist SuperSearch newsgathering tool.

CyberJournalist.net will become a service of The Media Center and incorporated with other information and training services produced by The Media Center for the online and multi-platform convergence news industry.

The Media Center, a unit of the not-for-profit American Press Institute based in Reston, Virginia, produces seminars and custom training and management-development services for online and convergence publishing companies. It also publishes NewsFuture, a Web and e-mail newsletter for senior staffers and executives in the multi-platform news publishing industry.

"CyberJournalist.net is for journalists and journalism educators concerned with producing better digital journalism for a digital audience," said Media Center Director Andrew Nachison. "That's one of the primary objectives of The Media Center, along with helping news companies improve their business planning, operations and strategic focus. Through our publishing and training we want to help journalists and news-industry executives and strategists better understand what they can do to connect with their digital audience. So CyberJournalist.net is a perfect complement to our other publication, NewsFuture, which focuses on the evolution of the news business and publishing strategies."

CyberJournalist.net was founded in 2000 by MSNBC.com technology editor Jonathan Dube, who will continue as CyberJournalist.net's editor-in-chief and publisher. He will maintain CyberJournalist.net as a service of The Media Center, where he also will be a senior editor. Nachison will become editor-at-large of CyberJournalist.net.

"We are at an important crossroads in journalistic history, as the Internet and new technologies reshape our business," Dube said. "I founded CyberJournalist.net to help journalists understand and embrace these changes. With The Media Center's similar mission, our new alliance is an exciting step forward in educating our profession and is great news for the journalism world."

Links to CyberJournalist.net, NewsFuture and details about The Media Center can be found here:

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/mediacenter

About the American Press Institute

The American Press Institute is an independent, not-for-profit educational center with headquarters in Reston, Virginia. Founded by newspaper publishers in 1946 as the leadership-development and training arm of the news industry, the Institute offers about three dozen weeklong residential seminars annually for professionals in all newspaper departments. A separate curriculum produced by The Media Center at API focuses on Internet publishing, technology and media convergence. In public seminars and private engagements with individual companies, The Media Center assists professionals in developing and implementing strategies, content and processes for the delivery of information across a variety of platforms. Through its Extended Learning Center, API develops tailored learning programs for individual media companies. These programs range from leadership development to skills training.

About CyberJournalist.net

CyberJournalist.net is a resource site for journalists that focuses on the Internet, media convergence and new technologies. The site offers tips, news and commentary about online journalism, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool. CyberJournalist.net highlights examples of online journalism with the aim of recognizing those who do great work and helping those who don't. The site also explores how technology is affecting journalism, with an emphasis on how the Internet can help all journalists better do their jobs. The site features a Great Work Gallery of outstanding online journalism; a Weblog Blog that tracks Weblogs' impact on journalism; and the CyberJournalist SuperSearch newsgathering tool. CyberJournalist.net has been recommended by the Columbia Journalism Review, Newsbytes and the Radio and Television News Directors Association, and been named a USA TODAY Hot Site. The site was founded by Jonathan Dube in the summer of 2000 and published independently until August 2002, when a publishing alliance was formed with The Media Center at the American Press Institute. Dube continues to run the site as editor-in-chief and publisher.

Media Contacts:

Andrew Nachison
Director, The Media Center at API
(703) 620-3618
anachison@americanpressinstitute.org

Jonathan Dube

editor@CyberJournalist.net

(206) 755-0855