Journalism Links
Newslink is a top
news reporting site that contains links to every newspaper and magazine. Fantastic site.
Free Republic is a conservative site on the
web that has newsfeeds, and postings of news by members. They have been known
to scoop the Wall Street Journal. Whatever your politics, you can register for
free and customize the newsfeeds to your interests.
The American Journalism Review offers links to
resources along with timely online articles useful to
journalists—“insider” views about everything from
specialization to searching newspapers to multimedia.
The Poynter Institute for
Media Studies has a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the
internet for journalists, including newsgroups, listservs,
databases, bulletin boards, the WWW, and Journalism 101.
Here’s the best
journalist's site on the web, as far as I know: Journalism Net by Julian Sher. Offers links
to media around the world as well as an up-to-date newsfeed.
Newstrove offers
an up-to-date search engine and frequently updated catalogue of websites, news,
and books on subjects. Scroll down for science and health subjects that
interest you, click on the link, and you’ll get
the most recent archived items on a subject. Very useful.
The United States Census Bureau is what it sounds
like.
Slate magazine rounds up the daily news each
morning, and the weekly news each week, with links embedded in the
roundups. Sign up for a daily summary of news.
Another good source of
links for web commentators is here.
Try metasearch
engines, like dogpile or metasearch.
In a meta-search engine, you submit keywords in its search box, and it
transmits your search simultaneously to most of the popular search engines and
their databases of web pages. Within a few seconds, you get back results
from all of the search engines queried. This can save
you a lot of time. Here's Berkeley's
Guide to the best, and the rules for each.
Want to locate a
professor who's an expert on a subject? Check out Profnet. A
great, free service: just request what you need and they'll post your request to
universities, think tanks and foundations. May take a
few days to reply.
Here's CNN Interactive--Television online.
Arts & Letters Daily culls (and offers
links to) the most interesting articles in the humanities and science from
around the world. Updated
five days a week.
Here's the homepage of
the National Institute of Computer Assisted
Reporting (NICAR). They give seminars and have many great sites and
databases listed.
Mediabistro is
a great meeting place for journalists, with a daily newsfeed, bulletin board,
job listings, and frequent seminars.
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blinking cat for fun
