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Dana Eagles
Dana Eagles of the Orlando Sentinel defines common Web terms to create an online journalism glossary.



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A mojo is a “mobile journalist” who works out of a car, using laptop computers, digital cameras and audio recorders to file intensely local, Web-first news reports. Notably, Gannett Co. has pushed the mojo concept at its Fort Myers News-Press, where the term apparently came into use. Mojos there contribute continously to microsites that are devoted to coverage of suburban communities.
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