Journalism Resources

This resource document introduces the array of Internet help available to journalism students enrolled in courses such as Reporting and Reporting of Public Affairs. Moorhead State University students experimented with it in fall 1995. If you have suggestions on useful links for inclusion in this document, please send them to Professor Shelton Gunaratne.

Contents

[General]
[Civic Journalism & Cyberdemocracy]

General

2000 American Fact Finder and PopulationEstimates
Try the first site for direct access to 2000 U.S. census data on states, counties, MSAs, cities, zip code areas, etc. The second site provides access to more recent estimates.
AEJMC
The homepage of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. This page provides links to AEJMC's divisions, as well as a link to the convention research papers housed in Michigan.
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Agriculture and natural resources programs focus on unbiased, research-based information and state-of-the art agricultural technology. Citizens have access to subject matter experts who provide expertise and information on cutting edge advances in commercial agriculture.
American Copy Editors Society
Provides editing advice, references, discussion boards,  information on job opportunities, etc.
American Journalism Review
The home page of the American Journalism Review. Provides links to newspapers, magazines, television networks and affiliates, radio, news/wire services, and media companies.
American Press Institute
Information on seminars and fellowships, plus journalism links.
American Society of Journalists and Authors
A Web site for freelancers.
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Works, kiosk, events, links, ideas & issues.
Associated Press Managing Editors
APME Home Page: industry news, newspaper sites, etc.
The Argus Clearinghouse
Another compendium of resources. It includes a full-text search option.
The Black World Today
A "chronicle of daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of black communities and countries."
Britannica Online
The first encyclopedia on the Internet.
Broadcasting Training Program
A Los Angeles-based  non-profit organization founded in 1993 with ties all across the country. It emphasizes minority training.
Calypte Biomedical
A collection of resources on a variety of resources, news and research on cancer, heart disease, AIDS, neurological diseases, etc.
Center for Disease Control
A slew of health statistics for public affairs reporting. Also, a heap of consumer and policy information on health matters.
CIOS
Website of the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship.
Communication News
Pepper & Corazzini's Web pages provide access to material relating to communication. telecommunications, Internet and online services law. Links to FCC WWW Site and other legal and telecommunications sources.
Competence in the Newsroom
The Poynter Institute hosted a conference on "Competence in the Newsroom" in St. Petersburg on Feb. 26, 1998. Here's the overview.
Computer-Assisted Reporting
Stephen Lamble's CAR research pages for journalists, journalism educators and students working in English speaking countries outside the United States.
Consumer World
More than 1,100 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet.
Cost-of-Living Calculator
This utility from NewsEngin allows you to convert dollar values between any two years to adjust for inflation.
Cox Newspapers Job Positions
All current openings at Cox newspapers are listed by job title, city and state.
C-SPAN Website
C-SPAN Web Server offers program and events schedules, and other political resources.
Cybertimes Navigator
Rich Meislin's selective guide to the Internet. (Register free with The New York Times to get your username and password to enter this site.)
Deadline Online
A customized program for reporters and producers meeting deadlines..
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
College programs, alumni offerings, high school student and teacher programs, career literature, Fund news releases and more.
Editor & Publisher
The Web edition of Editor & Publisher plus access to world's electronic newspapers, etc.
Ethics on the WWW; Ethics in Journalism; and  SPJ Ethics 2
In addition to media ethics links, the first site provides access to codes of ethics, courses in ethics, movie and TV ethics, etc. The second site contains the SPJ code of ethics. The third site the Northern California view on SPJ ethics.
The ETEXT Archives
Provides access to electronic texts all over the Internet, including the Gutenberg electronic books archive and an array of independent electronic publications and magazines.
FACSNET
The Foundation for American Communications (facs@facsnet.org) of Los Angeles provides reporting tools, Internet resources for journalists, top issues and sources online.
FamilyFun
FamilyFun, new from Disney Online, is a heavily trafficked service for parents, offering easily accessible, comprehensive, high-quality information for raising children.
Federal Courts Finder
Provides access to decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as those of the 12 federal circuit courts.
The Federal Court Locator
From the Villanova Center for Information Law & Policy: information on the federal judiciary, including Slip opinions.
Federal Election Commission
Summary reports of candidate expenditures and receipts.
The Federal Web Locator
This site, a service of the Villanova Center for Information Law & Policy, enables a person to easily access the government Web site he/she needs.
FedWorld
A service of the National Technical Information Service to enable online access to U.S. government information. Telnet and FTP sites included.
Finding Data on the Internet
A great site for public affairs reporting. It provides links to potential story data and explains statistics every writer should know: mean, mode, median, standard deviation, level of significance, etc.
FINWeb
Pointers to financial and economic information from both business and academic sites.
First Amendment CyberTribune
Charles Levendosky, editorial page editor of the Casper, Wyo., Star-Tribune operates this site to link groups interested in censorship, FOI and the First Amendment.
First Headlines
1stHeadlines provides a central location to easily scan the headlines from more than 50 top newspaper, broadcast and online news sources and quickly view current news events from the regional perspective offered by multiple news organizations. 1stHeadlines is updated continuously, 24 hours a day.
FOI Foundation of Texas ; NFOIC and The Reporters' Network
The Reporters' Network has sponsored this foundation to provide assistance on issues relating to Texas Public Information Act , the Texas Open Meeting Law and the federal FOI Act. The second site takes you to the National Freedom of Information Coalition. The third site maintains the most comprehensive e-mail directory of reporters, editors, broadcasters, free-lance writers and other news professionals on the Internet.
The Freedom Forum
Top breaking stories about journalism--both national and international, the First Amendment,  technology, etc.
The Gallup Organization
Gallup offers new stories on current polling data five days a week, along with searchable archives of polling content for the last two years. In the future, it will offer the ability to access the Gallup database with 65 years of public opinion research data.
Gebbie Press: Daily Newspapers on the Web.
The "Blue Ribbon" list of U.S. daily newspapers on the Web compiled by Mark Gebbie, Gebbie Press. He has also completed a list of 539 TV stations on the Web (U.S.A.), with 526 E-mail addresses appropriate for news releases or general station contact. A similar, but larger (2,030) list of radio stations with 1,000 plus E-mail addresses also exists.
General Media & Daily Newsfeeds
A very useful service from ARRAY Development Inc., Ottawa, to link yourself to global media, including Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review and other newsmagazines.
Government Information Sharing Project
A compilation of information databases sharing governmental information in three areas: demographics, economics and education.
GPO Access
Access to U.S. Government Printing Office database. It provides full-text searching and downloading to: the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, Congressional bills, public laws, history of bills and GAO reports.
Green Bay News-Chronicle
The newspaper of the home city of Green Bay (Wis.) Packers.
Health and Human Services
Consumer and policy information, as well as links to other health-related government sites. Technical terms linked to the National Library of Medicine's Entrez glossary.
Health Writer
A selective list of Internet resources for journalists writing on health and medicine-- a site put together by Linda Wasmer Smith, a freelance journalist specializing in health, medicine, mental health, and general science.
HotWired
Interactive cyberspace magazine (estbd. Oct. 1994)
Income Tax Information
Searchable IRS forms and state tax forms, as well as information on U.S. tax laws, tax treaties, etc.
Index to Journalism Periodicals
The Index to Journalism Periodicals is a WAIS index containing 24,000 citations from trade, professional and academic journals related to journalism and mass communications.
Information Please
Comprising millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics, Information Please has set the standard for scope, authority, and readability among reference works.
In-Forum
The Web site of The (Fargo, N.D.) Forum, the major daily in North Dakota with the primary circulation in the Fargo-Moorhead metro area. In-Forum is its online edition.
InfoSpace
A worldwide directory: telephone, e-mail, fax, net phones, businesses, blue pages, etc.
International Center for Journalists
Information on ICJ's workshops, seminars and conferences. Also provides a database and a newsletter on the East European press.
Internet Advertising Resource Guide
Hairong Li, Michigan State University, maintains these links to advertsing resources categorized under six headings: introduction, development, management, planning, research and teaching.
The Internet Public Library
This site organizes books and reference collections into rooms and stacks: reference, youth, literature, etc. It also provides links to searchable indexes and downloadable texts.
Investigative Reporters & Editors
This site provides access to The IRE Journal, NICAR (computer-assisted reporting), the IRE Resource Center and the IRE newsgroups.
JCMC
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Journalism and the Internet
Tyrone Prather and Kiffen Hsieh, two print-journalism students from Stanford University, have developed this resource site for the "nascent journalists."
Journalism Sites on Yahoo
Displays the Yahoo matches containing journalism.
Journalist's Toolbox
Features more than 16,000 web sites helpful to the media and anyone else doing research. Use the pulldown menu or search engine to locate information from a variety of beats and news industry-related topics.
Lawyers Legal Research
Legal research database of court decisions: U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and more than 40 state courts.
Library of Congress Web
Checkout the Library of Congress Online Catalog.
Links2Go: Journalism
Each quarter, Links2Go samples millions of Web pages to determine the most heavily cited  Web pages. The most popular pages are automatically categorized by topic. Here are the 50 pages selected as Key Resources for  Journalism.
MapMachine
National Geographic's Atlas maps, flags and facts, GIS data and an array of other astonishing tools.
MapQuest
GeoSystems Global Corp. provides an interactive street map guide to any address in the continental United States.
Mass Media: Database
Jack Pontius, communications librarian at Penn State, maintains this "largest" Gopher index.
Mass Media & Society
This page serves primarily as a resource for the students of Communication 130: Mass Media and Society, an undergraduate course in communication at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to the course-specific resources, this page maintains a glossary of media related terms culled from students' questions on their readings in _Advertising Age_ magazine, links to relevant home pages in the television, film and magazine publishing industries, and industry analyses prepared especially for this page.
MedForum
This link, available free to journalists, includes an online medical journal, a journalists' hotline, support groups and medical newsgroups.
Media E-mail Directory
The e-mail addresses of newspapers, magazines, TV stations and other media that accept electronic submissions from the public.
The Media History Project
Affiliated with the American Journalism History Association, this site was known earlier as History of Media Technologies.
Media-in-Cyberspace Study II
The latest study by Steven Ross and Don Middleberg on the journalists' use of the Internet and other online sources.
The Media Institute
Legal activities, advisory councils, programs and publications of The Media Institute, Washington, D.C.
MediaNet
This is an e-mail service for journalists looking for industry experts.
Media Studies Center
Information on the activities of The Freedom Forum, as well as relevant links.
Mediator
News services on the Internet.
MedWeb
From Emory University: a long list of Web sites, newsgroups and mailing lists covering a wide range of medical areas.
Mega-Media Links@Omnibus:Eye
A large collection of media-related WWW sites. This index has more than 700 online listings of radio, television and film resources.
Megasources
Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research: This link page is the work of Dean Tudor, professor emeritus of journalism, Ryerson Institute in Canada.
Mercury Center
The San Jose Mercury News' online site.
Minnesota News Council
The MNC Homepage also includes the Newsworthy magazine with articles on media ethics, etc.
NameBase Online
One-screen reviews of more than 400 investigative books indexed in NameBase, a cumulative index of the names from books published since 1962 and from periodicals since 1973.
NASA
The National Aeronautics & Space Administration Home Page.
National Conference of Editorial Writers Online
The site for editors and writers of opinion for newspaper and broadcast media.
National Press Club
Links to political coverage, cyber networks, reporter's resources.
National Press Photographers Association
NTPA programs, contests and activities.
National Writers Union
Home Page of  the trade union for freelance writers of all genres publishing in U.S. markets. This site has an extensive "Online Resources for Writers (links)" section.
NETworth
Information for individual investors: insurance, retirement planning, taxes, etc. (from Galt Technologies).
Newseum
This site is the home of the Newseum, the newest museum in Washington, D.C., funded by the Freedom Forum.
Newsies on the Web
This site is devoted to the personal Web pages of people who do news for a living.
Newspaper Archives on the Web
Newspaper links on this page are sorted by state. You can access newspaper home pages or their library/archive pages from here. The site provides the dates of the newspaper's archive, when known, along with the cost to retrieve the full text of articles.
Newspaper Association of America
NAA is a nonprofit organization representing the $46 billion newspaper industry. Very useful for facts about newspapers.
NewsPlace for News & Sources
For the latest news, primary sources, information resources, cultural news and useful tools. Avi Bass, Northern Illinois University, maintains this site.
NewsWorks
The NewsWorks network is an alliance of over 130 of the country's best-known newspaper Web sites. NewsWorks offers its visitors the ability to search for news across the entire network of sites. That means visitors who search for news stories get results from more than 25,000 qualified, accredited journalists from America's best publications.
NICAR
The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting provides listings of government databases and information on C.A.R. training programs.
Northscape News
The online site of The Grand Forks Herald, a Knight-Ridder newspaper.
OFFSTATS 
A central source for links to official international statistics from the University of Auckland Library. Global, regional, and national statistics are available in a wide range of topic areas including demographics, economics, finance, crime, and religion. Searchable. Examples of statistics providers include the UN, World Bank, US Census Bureau, and the OECD.
Online Career Center
Companies pay to list jobs in this Gopher server. It allows search by type of job, region of country, etc. You can list your own resume for $10.
Online Journalism Review
From USC Annenberg School for Communication.
Online-Journalist
Doug Millison's news, commentary and resources for the online journalism community.
OPIN
Access to national and international resources for reporters is now available at the John F. Kennedy School of Government News Office's KSG OPIN (Online Political Information Network), a well-developed set of links to most major sources of government and political information available on the Internet. This site also features a thorough group of online resources for reporters, which includes connections to online news services, reference and academic centers, trade publications, international sources, and articles on using the Internet for reporting.
O'Reilly Network
Sources for open and emerging technologies.
Organization of News Ombudsmen
Information of interest to reader advisers.
Park Search
A service of L. L. Bean's, this site enables you to browse 900 or so national parks and forests, state parks and other outdoor locales in the United States by park name, state or activity.
Pathfinder
The Time-Warner megasite offers a Coney Island of publications: People, daily Time, Asiaweek, Money Magazine, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, etc.
Political Money Line
The non-partisan federal candidate campaign-money page. Contributions by individuals and PACs to candidates. Check the candidates by state and district.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Workshop information, bibliographies, research and various other topics of interest to journalists.
Prairie Online
This site, a community service of Prairie Public Broadcasting, provides information, discussion and communication relating to North Dakota and the Red River Valley.
Pressnet
Pressnet provides a meeting place for professionals and students of journalism worldwide. It includes resources of general interest.
Profnet
This is a cooperative network of public information officers linked via the Internet to give journalists/authors quick access to expert sources. PIOs respond directly by e-mail, fax, phone or snail mail.
Project for Excellence in Journalism
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is an initiative by journalists from all media to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism--organized by the Committee of Concerned Journalists, which is a consortium of reporters, editors, producers, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession.
PR-Wire
London Business Monitor runs this site as an international press release distribution network.
Public Broadcasting Service
Access to NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and other public affairs programs.
Radio Online
This site provides an e-mail link to every radio station and personality on the Internet.
Reporters Media Directory
The database of working journalists in Canada and the United States.
Salon
A classy ("quality") cyberspace magazine
SEC EDGAR Database
Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval database. Journalists can get the data on public companies.
The Source for Interactive Democracy
This enables you to locate and communicate with members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. It pinpoints the key members of the Congress and their Web sites, as well as their e-mail addresses.
SPJ ; SPJ (St. Louis); SPJ (Minn.)
The Society of Professional Journalists provides links to other journalism items, as well as Quill articles. SPJ's St. Louis chapter and Minnesota chapter offer newsletter articles, and news from other chapters and regions.
SSCA.net
This is the Web site of the Southern States Communication Association.
STAT-USA
A subscription-based pay service, this U.S. Commerce Department site provides business and economic statistics from more than 50 federal agencies.
State and Local Government ontheNet
A Piper Resources' guide to government-sponsored Internet sites.
State Search
A topical clearinghouse for state government information--a service of the National Association for State Information Resource Executives.
TRAC
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse provides authoritative information about the operations of all federal enforcement and regulatory agencies.
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
This is the place to search the Congressional Record, House and Senate bills, floor schedules, committees, members' sites, etc. You can also express your opinion to the lawmakers.
TVW
TVW provides live coverage of state-government proceedings. It is the state-level counterpart to C-SPAN.
USA City Link
This comprehensive list of city Web sites provides information for all states and cities in the United States.
U.S. Dailies: (E&P Website)
E&P links you to online newspapers worldwide.
U.S. Government Online
This site provides access to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government, as well to independent agencies.
U.S. House Website and U.S. House Gopher and Majority Whip
The House of Representatives Web site provides access to: The full text and status of bills and resolutions being considered by Congress; current information on the House floor debate; summaries of recent House floor and committee actions; House floor and committee meetings schedules; name, address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of members and committees; educational information: how the laws are made, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution; visitor information: maps of Capitol Hill, Capitol touring information; U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations which are full text searchable; organization and operations information about the House: Ethics Manual, House Rules; and ability for citizens to provide feedback.
U.S. Senate Website and U.S. Senate Gopher
The U.S. Senate's Web server provides information from and about the members of the Senate, Senate committees, and Senate leadership and support offices. This evolving service also provides general background information about U.S. Senate legislative procedures, Senate facilities in the Capitol Building and the history of the Senate.
Webgator
Investigative resources on the Web: A boon to journalists who are looking for documents..
Web Journal of Mass Communication Research
The purpose of the WJMCR is to expand publication opportunities for scholars in the field of mass communication.
The WELL Gopher
A "cohesive diversity" of material including playlists for the "Hearts of Space" and "Echoes" radio programs (in the Arts submenu), lots of cyberpunk and a cool collection of Community Networking material.
WWW Virtual Library: Broadcasters
This list. maintained by Jonathan Bowen, provides links to national and international TV and radio broadcasters, as well as other relevant links.
WWW Virtual Library: Journalism
This list, maintained by John Makulowich, also covers broadcasting, communications, media and news.

Civic Journalism and Cyber democracy

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Democracy Code Blue
Producer Bill Drummond explores causes and possible cures for what analyst describe as a corrosive cynicism that threatens to undermine American politics.
Highway 1
Highway 1 defines itself as "The road to better communication between government and the people."
Institute for the Study of Civic Values
This institute, based in Philadelphia, develops seminars, workshops and public forums.
Missouri Civic Journalism Site
Mike McKean of School of Journalism, University of Missouri, maintains this site.
Missouri Digital News
An experiment in linking coverage of state political news to government databases and political discussion groups.
Pew Center for Civic Journalism
The Pew Center is an incubator for civic journalism experiments that enable news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage people in public life.
Political Activism Index
This is Yahoo's index to political activism Web sites.
Public Agenda
Public Agenda Online provides in-depth, objective research for journalists on public opinion and public policy. It's a branch of the Public Agenda Foundation, which does nonpartisan public opinion research.
Politics Now
A service of ABC News, National Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek: news, views, campaign '96, issues and inter-action.
Last updated: 8 Dec. 2002
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