American Reporter - A six-day-per week electronic daily newspaper owned by the writers whose work it features. The American Reporter was founded to give journalists around the world an opportunity to have a financial stake in their own work.
Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) -
Provides content providers with tools to communicate their copyright terms and conditions online in a language that can be read, understood and interpreted by machines.
British Library: Newspapers - The national archive collections in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers. Includes entries for over 52,000 newspaper and periodical titles from all over the world, dating from the 17th to the 21st century. Also, Newspaper History links, and special collections in popular culture, specialist news information resources, and newspaper libraries and facilities resources.
CAL-FOIA Archive - The CAL-FOI archive, sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, is a collection of documents and links to Internet sites on First Amendment, public records, open government and similar issues of concern to reporters.
California Digital Newspaper Collection - Contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a pilot project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers.
California Newspaper Project - An 18 year effort by CBSR to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers. Close to 9,000 California newspapers were inventoried in over 1,400 repositories throughout the state, 1.5 million pages of California newspapers were preserved and made available on microfilm, and 100,000 rolls of negative microfilm rolls are being processed for permanent storage at the UC Regional Library Storage Facilities.
Cascadia Media Collective - An uncompromising group of guerrilla journalists producing videos, audio CDs, pamphlets, and other multimedia projects. Seeks not only to inform people of social injustice and environmental destruction but also to strengthen and mobilize the community of resistance. Through these projects Cascadia Media Collective provides a healthy, vibrant alternative to the corporate/state propaganda packaged as the nightly news.
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) - An independent news organization that strengthens democracy by exposing injustice and abuse of power. Investigates critical, underreported issues.
Center for Public Integrity (CPI) - Provides the findings of its investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability, and ethics-related issues.
Centurion Risk Assessment Services - Prepares people both mentally and practically for dangerous work in extreme conditions. These people are usually in the news media, international organisations, humanitarian aid agencies, charities and other NGOs, and commercial businesses.
Chauncey Bailey Project -
To continue Bailey's work and answer questions regarding his death, more than two dozen reporters, photographers and editors from print, broadcast and electronic media, and journalism students launched the Chauncey Bailey Project. The Project is finishing Bailey’s investigation of violence and financial fraud at Your Black Muslim Bakery, an institution in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 40 years. Following the bakery string, it is being led into an examination of the bakery’s relationships with local politicians, city and business officials and the Oakland Police Department.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Churnalism.com - Churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism. 'Churnalism' is a news article that is published as journalism, but is essentially a press release without much added. On churnalism.com you can: Compare a press release with over three million articles published by any national newspaper website, the BBC or Sky News since 2007. See the percentage of the press release cut and pasted into news articles, and the number of characters that overlap. See the press release side-by-side with an image of the article, showing which bits have been copied. Share examples of churn via twitter and facebook. Search examples of churn saved by other people and scraped by churnalism.com.
Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) - The CJR is published six times a year by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Also see Who Owns What, CJR's online guide to what major media companies own.
Common Sense Media - Exists because media and entertainment profoundly impact the social, emotional, and physical development of our nation's children. Provides trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.
Creative Commons - A nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Cyberjournalist.net - Tips and talk for online writers and editors. Special coverage information, resources, and compilations.
EasyMediaList - Create media lists for business publicity and promotion. In minutes you can download a list of American media contacts for your on-going publicity efforts, including distribution of press releases and news alerts.
Electronic Privacy Information Center - A public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
Environmental Media Services (EMS) - A nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues. EMS regularly brings together experts from academic, government, business, science, medical and public interest communities for extended briefings with journalists on controversial and/or emerging environmental and public health issues.
Explainer - Answers to questions about the news from Slate's news department.
Fear and Favor in the Newsroom - Narrated by Studs Terkel, Fear and Favor in the Newsroom shows on film how ownership of the press by a small corporate elite constricts the free flow of ideas and information upon which our democracy depends.
First Amendment Online: Press - Overview, FAQs, cases and resources, courtroom access, prior restraint, shield laws, gog orders, cameras in the courtroom and more.
Free Press - A national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, it promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.
Gebbie Press: All-In-One-Media Directory - Comprehensive directory for working media professionals includes all radio and TV stations, all daily and weekly newspapers, trade and consumer magazines, Black and Hispanic media, news syndicates, networks, AP/UPI bureaus.
GfK MRI -
A leading producer of media and consumer research in the United States. GfK MRI's Survey of the American Consumer is the industry standard for magazine audience ratings in the U.S. and is used in the majority of media and marketing plans in the country.
Glasgow Media Group - A research based grouping of academics within the sociology department of Glasgow University. The purpose of its work is to promote the development of new methodologies and substantive research in the area of media and communications.
Help a Reporter Out (HARO) -
Every day, HARO brings nearly 30,000 reporters and bloggers, over 100,000 news sources and thousands of small businesses together to tell their stories, promote their brands and sell their products and services.
History Buff - An historical reference to press coverage from the 16th to 20th centuries. Find out how historical events were covered in the press. Read the actual newspaper accounts for events in American history - not the transcrips or microfilm copies - but the originals.
History Commons - A tool for open-content participatory journalism. It allows people to investigate important issues by providing a space where people can collaborate on the documentation of past and current events, as well as the entities associated with those events. The website can be used to investigate topics at the local, regional, or global level.
I-Witness Video -
Uses video to protect civil liberties. Probes police actions at First Amendment events. I-Witness Video has uncovered perjury and abuse by police officers and prosecutors, revealed illegal police surveillance and exposed official lies.
Impunity No More - A vivid account of the quest of justice in various cases of violence against journalists.
Independent Media Institute - Dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism, and to improving the public's access to independent information sources.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) - IWPR supports media development through collaborative journalistic projects and other forms of practical assistance. Long-time publisher of WarReport, IWPR produces several electronic reporting and monitoring services, all available via the Web or e-mail (in up to five languages), and operates a range of training, local publications and other development programmes.
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) - Promotes co-ordinated international action to defend press freedom and social justice through the development of strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.
International Journalists' Network (IJNet) - An online service for journalists, media managers, media assistance professionals, journalism trainers and educators and anyone else with an interest in the state of the media around the world. The IJNet is produced by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in Washington, D.C.
International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) - At its core, IFEX is made up of organisations whose members refuse to turn away when those who have the courage to insist upon their fundamental human right to free expression are censored, brutalized or killed. The nerve-centre of IFEX is the Clearing House, located in Toronto, Canada and managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
International Press Institute (IPI) - Global network of journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving the standards and practises of journalism.
International Press Reporting Project - Designed to educate U.S. journalists about global issues and to increase and improve the coverage of international topics in the U.S. news media. It does so through a variety of fellowships, conferences, seminars, fact-finding visits and publications to meet the needs of all levels of journalists: early-career, mid-career and senior journalists.
International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) - A consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world. The IPTC not only provides news exchange formats to the news industry but also creates and maintains sets of topics to be assigned as metadata values to news objects like text, photographs, graphics, audio- and video files and streams for many years now.
International Reporting Awards - These competitions honor journalists around the world, who have demonstrated excellence in reporting:
Free Media Pioneer Prize - The International Press Institute responds to threats to press freedom and injustice to journalists with an award recognizing journalists who have helped forge media independence.
International Editor of the Year - World Press Review presents an award to the editor-in-chief of a publication outside the United States. It honors courage and leadership in advancing press freedom and responsibility, enhancing human rights, and excellence in journalism.
World Press Photo Awards - Honors excellence in photojournalism for spot news, portraits, general news, science and technology, nature and the environment, and the World Press Photo of the Year.
Internet Newsroom - Guide for journalists and other information professionals who want to use the Internet to gather information.
Internew - An international non-profit organization that supports open media worldwide. The organization fosters independent media in emerging democracies, produces innovative television and radio programming and Internet content, and uses the media to reduce conflict within and between countries
IPD Group - Provides Internet data mining and search services to organizations and professional users who need current news about specific topics.
Izzy Award -
The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F. Stone Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, McCarthyism, and racial bigotry. Presented annually for "special achievement in independent media," the Izzy Award will go to an independent outlet, journalist, or producer for contributions to our culture, politics, or journalism created outside traditional corporate structures.
Jhistory - A forum for discussions with professors, graduate students and professionals debating and exploring journalism history topics.
Journalism for Journalists - UK site providing career info for for editors, subs, reporters, designers, freelancers and photographers; news and links for journalists working online and in print media.
Journalist's Toolbox - Features more than 17,000 Web sites helpful to the media and anyone else doing research.
Journalisted - An independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for the public to find out more about journalists and what they write about.
La Lutta New Media Collective - Offers new media technical assistance to non-profit, community and grassroots groups unable to incorporate appropriate technological strategies into their daily operations.
Labor Press Project - This site brings together information about the history and ongoing influence of newspapers and periodicals published by unions, labor councils, and radical organizations in the Pacific Northwest.
Media Access Project (MAP) - Provides policy advocacy at the FCC and the courts, advocacy in the media and other public forums, and day-to-day counseling of civic organizations and individuals.
Media Alliance - Training and resources for media workers, activists and community organizations.
Media Bureau - Develops, recommends and administers the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television, and radio in the United States and its territories.
Media Law Research Center (MLRC) - An information clearinghouse organized by a number of media organizations to monitor developments and promote First Amendment rights in the libel, privacy and related legal fields.
Media Guide - Extensive links to U.S. national and local media.
Media UK - Directory of UK media resources, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, newsfeeds.
MediaFinder - Comprehensive database of print media in the U.S. and Canada. MediaFinder from Oxbridge Communications is the source for subscription, mailing list and advertising information for over 90,000 magazines, newsletters, catalogs, directories, newspapers, journals and other periodicals.
MediaRights - A community Web site, helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.
MediaStudies.com - Serves as a hub - providing links to educational guidelines, global news outlets and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community.
Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) - Located in the Chicago Cultural Center on Michigan Avenue at Washington Street, this extensive public archives collection houses more than 70,000 radio and television programs and commercials.
Nation Digital Archive - An assemblage of words and images from some of the most thought-provoking writers, activists and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Civil War through the millennium. Contributors include Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Mead, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bertrand Russell, I.F. Stone, Jean-Paul Sartre, W. H. Auden, Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt and many more.
National Writers Union (NWU) - The NWU is a trade union for freelance writers of all genres who work for American publishers or employers. Extyensive resources for writers and investigative reporters.
Netroots Nation - Amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate.
New America Media (NAM) - The first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations in the U.S. Founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, NAM is headquartered in California with offices in New York and Washington D.C., and partnerships with journalism schools to grow local associations of ethnic media. NAM produces, aggregates and disseminates multimedia content and services for and from the youth and ethnic media sectors.
New Media Resources - Excellent compilation by the Knight Digital Media Center. Extensive listings for Professional Training and Development, Online Journalism, General Professional Organizations, Beat/Specialization Organizations, Ethnic/Gender/Sexual Orientation Organizations, Regional Organizations, and Professional Publications.
New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) - The Society develops programs and other resources for financial journalists. These include the semi-annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Award, an annual spring seminar series Understanding and Evaluating Financial Statements, and customized seminars specially tailored to meet the individual needs of interested news organizations.
News Frontier Database (NFDB) -
A searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. Featuring originally reported profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet.
Newseum - Interactive museum of news takes visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made. Visitors can be reporters or television newscasters; relive the great news stories of all time through multimedia exhibits, artifacts and news memorabilia; and see today's news as it happens on a block-long video news wall.
Also see Today's Front Pages.
The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages from around the world in their original, unedited form.
NewsHour: Media Watch - Produced by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) NewsHour. Reports on and analyzes news, trends, issues and controversies involving the information industries.
NewsLab - A non-profit resource center for television and radio newsrooms, focused on training and research. Offers workshops on writing, storytelling, ethical decision-making, and other topics.
Newspaper Audience Databank, Inc. (NADbank) -
Designs and conducts research in Canadian urban markets to provide cost effective and accurate in-depth marketing information for its members to assist in the buying and selling of daily newspaper advertising in Canada.
NewsTrust -
A nonprofit news service provides quality news feeds and review tools to help people make more informed decisions as citizens. NewsTrust.net features a daily feed of news and opinions from mainstream and independent sources, based on ratings from its reviewers. Its web review tools enable people to rate stories for facts, fairness, context and other core journalistic principles — and become more discriminating news consumers in the process.
nicholasrapp.com -
Information graphics, web applications, cartography and video from Nicholas Rapp and his staff of designers and prgogrammers at AP.
Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication research (NORDICOM) - Media and communication research, a cooperation between the five countries of the Nordic region - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Starting from academic research, Nordicom collects and adapts knowledge, mediating it to various user groups in the Nordic region, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
On Assignment - Reporter's toolbox and professional tools and resources.
On the Media: This Week -
From NPR, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media.
Open Source Center (OSC) -U.S. Government's provider of foreign open source intelligence. OpenSource.gov provides information on foreign political, military, economic, and technical issues beyond the usual media to an ever expanding universe of open sources. Website contains sources from more than 160 countries in more than 80 languages and hosts content from several commercial providers, as well as content from OSC partners.
OpenMedia.ca -
Work towards an informed and participatory digital policy, safeguarding the possibilities of an open and affordable Internet.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism - Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
Pacific Northwest Newspaper Clippings Collection - A selection of over 13,100 newspaper articles collected and organized in the late 1930's by dedicated historians working for the Works Progress Administration. Supervised by Dr. Deutsch, a professor at Washington State University.
Paper of Record - An historical archive of full-page newspaper images that you can search for unique coverage of past events. The archive is created from newspaper collections on microfilm, preserving the original format of the paper, but saving you hours, even days, of research time. Over 7.5 million digitized searchable pages.
Park Center for Independent Media - A national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations.
Peabody Awards - While the intent of the Peabody Awards is to recognize outstanding achievement in broadcasting and cable, the competition is open to entries produced for alternative distribution, including corporate, educational, home-video release, CD-ROM and World Wide Web.
Plagiarism.org - Information on Internet plagiarism and how Turnitin and iThenticate are used by educators and content creators to fight plagiarism and restore integrity to written work.
Power Reporting - Thousands of research tools for journalists.
Poynter.org - Helps journalists do their jobs better and to serve their communities. Updated daily, it provides journalists with reliable information, useful tools, and provocative suggestions.
Pro Publica - An independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Progressive Review - Edited by Sam Smith. Free range journalism from Washington's most unofficial source.
Project for Excellence in Journalism - Seeks to clarify standards by bringing journalists together to decide what their purposes and aims are to be. The site also provides Daily Briefings, a digest of media news.
ProPublica -
An independent, non-profit newsroom producing investigative journalism in the public interest.
PR Watch - Investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
Press Display - Newspaper replicas from around the world.
Pulitzer Prizes - Prizes for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama, and music.
Quill Magazine - Published 10 times a year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
Recorded Future - "The world's 24x7 media flow constantly talk about time, whether it is reports of what's transpired or statements of what's expected to come. Recorded Future's linguistics and statistics algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning helps users understand relationships between entities and events over time, to form the world's first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world." Also see related Recorded Future, Predictive Signals, and Analysis Intelligence blogs.
Reporter.org - Conceived by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) as a way to provide resources to journalists, journalism educators, and the public at large via the web.
Reporter's Desktop - Reporting links, fill-in search forms, and select web resources.
Reporting Civil Rights - Volume 1 collects newspaper reports, magazine articles, book excerpts, the book Segregation by Robert Penn Warren, and one wire service article, published between 1941 and 1965 and dealing with events connected with the African-American civil rights movement in the period between May 1941 and July 1963. Volume 2 collects newspaper reports, magazine articles, and book excerpts, published between 1963 and 1973 and dealing with events connected with the African-American civil rights movement in the period between August 1963 and August 1973. Published by the Library of America.
Right Livlihood Award -
Honours champions of independent journalism, peace-building and social justice.
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education - Provides advanced training and services nationally to help news media reflect America's diversity in content, staffing and business operations. Prepares newspaper professionals and managers to operate effectively and creatively in multicultural communities.
Smart Mobs - Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments.
Social Media 4 Good - Exploring the use of social media for NGOs, non-profit organizations and to support humanitarian relief.
SPJ FOIA Resources - The Society of Professional Journalists maintains this website as a tool to help journalists and non-journalists in their quest for information from federal and local governments.
State of the News Media - Annual report on American journalism from The Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Statistics Every Writer Should Know - A simple guide to understanding basic statistics, for journalists and other writers who might not know math.
Talkers Magazine - A leading trade publication serving the talk radio industry in America. Also see Talker magazine's Heavy Hundred Class of 2005 - a listing of the "100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America."
tao communications - A regional federation of local autonomous collectives and individuals involved in communications and media, radical activism and social work.
The Public Record - Intrepid journalism serving the public interest.
The Smoking Gun - Brings you exclusive documents that can't be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, everything here is 100% authentic.
The Uptake - Online video news gathering and training resource.
Today's Front Pages - 260 front pages from 34 countries presented alphabetically, updated daily.
U.S. Newspaper Program - A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.
U.S. Senate Radio-Television Gallery - One of four press rooms or "galleries" serving as newsrooms for members of the news media who cover the Senate. The most important role we play is serving as a liaison between Congressional offices and members of the media. Most major broadcast news organizations have regularly staffed bureaus in this office.
Video Journalist Today - Online gathering place for anyone interested in a career in journalism or independent video production for documentaries and other types of content. With individual pages dedicated to camera operators, video editors, aspiring journalists, Video Journalist Today assists professional and aspiring amateur newshounds to locate latest trends in the business.
TimCast - Tim Pool, a journalist whose style of interactive broadcast journalism exists at the intersection of social and mainstream media. His live coverage has been featured by news outlets such as Reuters, MSNBC, and Al Jazeera English. Pool engages viewers as participants by combining first hand reporting and commentary via live video stream and chat, allowing the viewing public to join in the action by directly asking questions, which he responds to while reporting live.
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication -
The journalism program at Arizona State University was named in honor of former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 1984. Cronkite became intimately involved with ASU, advising the journalism school’s leadership, meeting with students and faculty, and traveling to Arizona each year until his death in July 17, 2009.
War Stories Exhibit (Newseum) - Tells the history of war reporting, including firsthand stories told by the men and women who have gone to battle with pens, microphones, and cameras.
Writing for Radio - Provides creative suggestions and ideas to radio news reporters, writers and anchors.
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