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What follows
is a highly selective and subjective list of Internet resources
useful to journalists. Consider it a springboard to compiling
your own list.
Great Places to Start:
A Reporter’s
Desktop—http://www.reporter.org/desktop/
Journalist Express -- http://www.journalistexpress.com/
Assignmenteditor.com -- http://www.assignmenteditor.com/
How to Search (Tutorials):
Bill Dedman’s
tutorial—http://PowerReporting.com/altavista.html
Altavista—http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/engines.html#and01
Google-- http://www.google.com/help/index.html
Finding Experts:
ProfNet – http://www.profnet.com/reporters.html
OR profnet@vbyne.com
(email)
Experts – http://www.powerreporting.com/category/People_finders/Experts
Reporter’s
Cardfile -- http://www.facsnet.org/sources/
SEJ links -- http://www.sej.org/resource/index.htm
Finding People:
People finders—http://www.powerreporting.com/category/People_finders
Switchboard.com—http://www2.switchboard.com/
555-1212 (searches multiple listings)
-- http://www.555-1212.com/
(Many search engines offer name,
phone, address and e-mail searches, too.)
Finding Companies:
Hoover’s
profiles—http://www.hoovers.com
Dun & Bradstreet
profiles—http://www.companiesonline.com/
SEC’s
Edgar database—http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
FreeEdgar (commercial site) -- http://www.freeedgar.com
Business news—http://www.businesswire.com
Press releases—http://prnewswire.com
Other resources: http://powerreporting.com/category/Company_research/
Search Newsgroups:
Deja.com – http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml
Usenet
search – http://powerreporting.com/category/Search_tools/Usenet
Finding News Articles:
Newsbank -- http://weblib.lib.umt.edu/
Lexis-Nexis -- http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
The Kaimin -- http://www.kaimin.org/archive.html
Your local
online paper’s archives
(free!) – www.missoulian.com/archives
Wash. Post
(search last two weeks free) – http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/searches/mainsrch.htm
U.S. News Archives—http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html
NewsLibrary (free search/$ for stories)
-- http://www.newslibrary.com/index.html
TotalNews—http://www.totalnews.com/
Headlines -- http://www.headlinespot.com/state/mt.htm
More headlines -- http://www.1stheadlines.com/
MT morgues -- http://www.townnews.com/mt/journalism/extras/newsmedia.htm
Search for Listservs Useful to
Journalists and Tips for Using Them at:
Liszt, a mailing
list directory –
http://www.liszt.com/
The list of
lists – http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
Journalism
lists – www.sej.org
Sites by Journalists and Journalism
Organizations:
Ethical case studies -- http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/index.html
Investigative
Reporters and Editors – www.ire.org
NICAR – www.nicar.org
Poynter Institute – www.poynter.org
Dedman's Top 100 -- http://www.powerreporting.com/category/Top_100_sites
Society of
Environmental Journalists – www.sej.org
Environmental investigations -- http://www.sej.org/resource/index.htm
Search several
j-organization sites – www.reporter.org/search.html
American Copyeditors
Society (ACES) – http://www.copydesk.org/
American Journalism
Review – http://ajr.newslink.org
Columbia Journalism
Review – www.cjr.org
FOIA info http://www.spj.org/foia/index.htm
Assignmenteditor.com
http://assignmenteditor.com/
WWW Virtual Library: Journalism
http://www.cais.com/makulow/vlj.html
National Press Club Library
http://www.nationalpressclub.com/library/reporter.htm
Maps:
MapBlast— http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/index.mb
MapQuest—http://www.mapquest.com/
World maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Sites for Beat Reporters
IRE’s
beat page – www.reporter.org/beat/
FACSNET – http://209.196.155.187/welcome.html
Power Reporting – http://www.powerreporting.com/category/Beat_by_beat
Health Writer – http://members.aol.com/healthwrtr/index.htm
Society of
Environmental Journalists—http://www.sej.org/
Specialty Sites and Search Engines
Congress -- http://thomas.loc.gov
The Census – http://www.census.gov/
Federal statistics—http://www.fedstats.gov/
United States National Library of Medicine
(Medline) -- www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Center
for Charitable Statistics—http://nccs.urban.org/
Campaign finance—http://www.opensecrets.org/home/index.asp
Federal Election
Commission –
www.fec.gov
FBI – www.fbi.gov
Federal court records -- http://www.uscourts.gov/PubAccess.html
State of Montana—http://www.state.mt.gov/
Voting records --http://voter.cq.com
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/cq/resources/votewatch
http://www.vote-smart.org/
Links for Copyeditors:
Tips and examples
for copyeditors –
http://www.copydesk.org/words.htm
Public records:
Public records (fee) -- http://atxp.dbt-online.com/
KnowX (fee) -- http://www.knowx.com/
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