CNN

===Blogs===

The topical news program ''[[Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics]]'' was the first CNN program to feature a round-up of blogs in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media-mix_x.htm|title=It's prime time for blogs on CNN's 'Inside Politics'|date=March 20, 2005|work=[[USA Today]]|last=Johnson|first=Peter|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226050602/http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media-mix_x.htm|archive-date=February 26, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> Blog coverage was expanded when ''[[Inside Politics]]'' was folded into ''The Situation Room'' (''Inside Politics'' later returned to CNN in 2014, this time hosted by the network's chief national correspondent John King.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}). In 2006, CNN launched CNN Exchange and [[CNN iReport]], initiatives designed to further introduce and centralize the impact of everything from [[blogging]] to [[citizen journalism]] within the CNN brand. CNN iReport which features user-submitted photos and video, has achieved considerable traction, with increasingly professional-looking reports filed by amateur journalists, many still in high school or college. The iReport gained more prominence when observers of the [[Virginia Tech shootings]] sent in first-hand photos of what was going on during the shootings.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=250570b8-2555-4ac0-8fb7-a0431a321e0d&k=80562|title='Citizen journalist' often there first to snap photos|date=April 12, 2008 |newspaper=Regina Leader-Post|last=Cobb |first=Chris|access-date=January 24, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621203445/http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=250570b8-2555-4ac0-8fb7-a0431a321e0d&k=80562|archive-date=June 21, 2008}}</ref>

In April 2010, CNN announced via Twitter that it would launch a food blog called "Eatocracy", which will "cover all news related to food – from recalls to health issues to culture".<ref>{{cite web|author=Brion, Raphael|title=Eatocracy: CNN Gets in the Food Blog Business|url=http://eater.com/archives/2010/04/13/eatocracy-cnn-gets-in-the-food-blog-business.php|publisher=Eater.com|date=April 13, 2010|access-date=April 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923061342/http://eater.com/archives/2010/04/13/eatocracy-cnn-gets-in-the-food-blog-business.php|archive-date=September 23, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> CNN had an [[internet relay chat]] (IRC) network at chat.cnn.com. CNN placed a live chat with [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] on the network in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/community/netanyahu/Net1getready.html|title=How to join the chat and view the Webcast|work=CNN|access-date=October 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911174405/http://www.cnn.com/community/netanyahu/Net1getready.html|archive-date=September 11, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

CNNHealth consists of expert doctors answering viewers' questions online at CNN's "The Chart" blog website. Contributors include [[Sanjay Gupta]] (Chief Medical Correspondent), [[Charles Raison]] (Mental Health Expert), [[Otis Brawley]] (Conditions Expert), Melina Jampolis (Diet and Fitness Expert), Jennifer Shu (Living Well Expert), and [[Elizabeth Cohen]] (Senior Medical Correspondent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/category/expert-qa|title=Expert Q&A|website=thechart.blogs.cnn.com|access-date=April 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414134344/http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/category/expert-qa/|archive-date=April 14, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>