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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news....

 feature series that which profiles the faces behind the Internet. It reports on World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 content creators, particularly the ones "who are really changing the political, social and religious fabric," according to the show's host, award winning journalist Kevin Sites

Kevin Sites

Kevin Sites is an American author and freelance journalist. He has spent nearly a decade covering global wars and disasters for ABC, NBC, CNN, and Yahoo! News...

. The format includes both video and text stories. Sites cites the focus on the business aspect of web content, and the relative lack of coverage of web personalities as the motivation for the series.

Sites' previous project was a year-long series of stories for Yahoo! from various war zones around the word called "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone", and he brings the same traveling video journalist style to this project. He is also using the same support crew from that series. Neeraj Khemlani

Neeraj Khemlani

Neeraj Khemlani is a producer at the CBS News 60 Minutes television news magazine, where he is responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories with various CBS News correspondents. Before joining CBS News in 1998, Mr...

, VP, Programming & Development for Yahoo! News & Info said they simply moved from putting a human face on war, to putting a human face on the Internet.

Gal Beckerman wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review

Columbia Journalism Review

The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961....

 that, "the idea of the series is so brilliant and filled with seemingly endless possibility that it’s amazing no one thought of it before."

The series premiered May 29, 2007. It has posted several feature stories including profiles on:

• lifecasters Justin Kan
  Justin Kan
  Justin Kan is an Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and TwitchTV, as well as the mobile social video application, Socialcam. He also serves as a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator...
  
   and Justine Ezarik
  Justine Ezarik
  Justine Ezarik , is an American viral video comedian, and Internet personality. She is best known as iJustine, a lifecaster who communicates directly with her thousands of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.tv. She has made more than 400 videos, including videos on such subjects as Lost and...
  
   from Justin.tv
  Justin.tv
  Justin.tv is a website created by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in 2007 that allows anyone to broadcast video online. Justin.tv user accounts are called "channels", and users are encouraged to broadcast a wide variety of user-generated live video content, called...
  
  
• former child star turned evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron
  Kirk Cameron
  Kirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor best known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains , as well as several other television and film appearances as a child actor...
  
  
• gay-activist blogger Mike Rogers
  Michael Rogers (activist)
  Michael Rogers is the Managing Director and partner of Raw Story Media, Inc. publishers of The Raw Story, an American fundraiser, blogger and gay rights activist in the Washington, D.C.-area best known for his activity in outing closeted gay politicians who actively oppose gay rights...
  
   who specializes in outing
  Outing
  Outing is the act of disclosing a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person's true sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent. Outing gives rise to issues of privacy, choice, hypocrisy, and harm in addition to sparking debate on what constitutes common good in efforts...
  
   closeted gay politicians
• a grandfather/grandson duo hosting an online worldwide group hug
• a convicted felon that leads a police watch dog group
• San Francisco based video blogger Josh Wolf
  Josh Wolf
  Josh Wolf is a journalist and video blogger.Josh Wolf is also the name of:* Josh Wolf , comic appearing on season 4 of Last Comic Standing...
  
  that addressed the question, "Can bloggers be journalists?"