CJReport Guide
This guide will help you understand CJReport step by step. Let's summarize it first. What is CJReport all about? Report news. Collaborate and write the stories together. Read. Vote and decide what's news. Discuss.
Table of Contents
The frontpage and sections
1. Top StoriesWhat you see here, are top stories on CJReport. You can find them on the frontpage and on all sections. How does a story become a top story? It all depends on the amount of votes the story received. Lots of votes means that the story is important. Thus it might show up as a top story. For more information about this, go see the vote guide.
2. TabsThe frontpage features a few recently published news stories, categorized by the five most popular categories. You can switch through the tabs to browse them.The sections (World News, Technology, Science, etc.) also have tabs on their own page. Those tabs display news stories from sub categories of that specific section/category. For instance, the science section contains three sub categories: Science & Nature, Health, Space.
3. Latest NewsThe Latest News table is shown on the frontpage, on the right side. It contains the most recently published news stories, from all categories.
The article page
1. Article TabsA news story has five tabs on top of the article (Some of these tabs are not available for unregistered users).View: Obvious. Lets you view the entire news story.Edit: Editing the article. Everything can be modified: Title, Category to which it belongs to, the Main Image, Short Summary, Body Text, Tags, News Sources and Related Blog Posts.Images: Adding images to the article. This is NOT the main image, but it will create an additional image gallery for the story.Revisions: Go see the Revisions guide for more info.Votes: A list of users who have voted for this new story.
2. Additional InformationTo increase the quality of our news stories, lots of additional information can be found under the article text.Tags: Tags are keywords that describe the news story. You can click on each tag and find other articles with the same tag. This is useful when you are looking for information about a specific subject.News Sources: One of our goals at CJReport is to give visitors as much information as possible about a news story, so visitors won't have to search all over the internet for other articles about the same story. Want to know everything about a news story? Our News Sources will fill your needs.Related Blog Posts: Since bloggers are the future journalists, it makes sense to include related blog posts.Pictures: Often, the Main Image does not say enough. That's why each article has its own image gallery for additional pictures about the specific news story.Comments: Last but not least, Comments lets you express your very own opinion about the news story. Discuss with people from around the world and get their point of view.
3. VotingThe voting feature on CJReport plays an important role on the site. Users can vote a story up if they think it's "news". Users should vote a story down when the story is spam, offending, or simply when it's just not newsworthy. Stories with a high amount of votes will be promoted to the frontpage, thus officially becoming "published". Stories with a low voting score will never get promoted to the frontpage.As you may (or maybe not) realize, it's all up to the users to decide what they think is newsworthy. YOU control the website.
4. RevisionsRevisions is pretty much the "history" of the news article. Or maybe better said, revisions are logs. They will keep track of every modification to the news article. Let's have a look at the image on the right. Revisions keep track of the date and by who the article has been modified. You can compare two version by selecting them and clicking the "Show diff" button. A revision can be reverted if the current version has been vandalized, for instance. It has the same purpose as the "History" tab on Wikipedia. Go see the wikipedia article about vandalism here or more information about their History tab.
Create a New Story
Want to post a news story on CJReport? You can find a link "Create a New Story" on every page on CJReport, on the upper right side.
Thanks for reading our guide! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or have a look at our help (FAQ) page. Enjoy your stay at CJReport.com!
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