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News Media
  AJR / Newslink
    American Journalism Review and Newslink are now 2 seperate sites. Read features from the magazine or use Newslink to find more than 4,000 U.S. newspapers online, as well as links to international and campus papers.
  BBC News
    Great for international news, with a British twist.
  Black Press USA
    Independent news source for the African-American community.
  Boston.com
    A joint venture of the Boston Globe and other media in the Boston area. Available free online: The daily news and prior day's articles. It also has links to other Boston-related sites.
  British Library Newspaper Library
    The British Library's Media Resources
  Brown Daily Herald's Heraldsphere
    Keep up with Brown University news on the BDH's website.
  Census 2000 Media News for Reporters
  First Headlines
    Current headlines. Narrow your topic of choice to news from a particular state. Good source of daily full-text newspaper stories.
  London Times Newspapers
    Check out what's happening in Great Britain via the London Times.
  Magazine Cybercenter
    Links to tons of magazines (mostly small, niche publications) on the Web.
  MediaInfo
    This is the Editor & Publisher website. It has some interesting links, plus the current issue of E&P.
  Newspaper Links on Newspapers On the Web
  New Bedford Standard-Times
    For a small paper, the Standard-times has put up a nice site.
  Newspaper Indexes on the Web
    Includes a hyperlinked listing of newspaper archives available online and information about them.
  The New York Times
    Read recent stories from the NYT. Available free online: The daily news and 1 week's worth of stories. Also has book and movie reviews that go back to 1997 - Free.
  The Newseum
    The Newseum hosts interesting forums and is a keeper of the history of our business, plus today's front pages.
  Newslink
    A very thorough site full of good links to news sources courtesy of AJR.
  Obscurestore
    Odd news updates daily.
  Pathfinder
    Pathfinder is the link to the Time-Warner publications pages.
  U.S. News Archives on the Web
    A list of U.S. papers with web archives compiled by the Special Libraries News Division. Some are FREE!
  Vanderbilt University Television News Archive
    Began taping television network evening news shows and have an archive online that extends to 1968. This archive is searchable and browsable.
  Worldpress
    Choose a country to peruse news there.
   
Reporting Tools
  American Copy Editors Society
  Columbia Journalism Review Archives
  Search the CJR archives back to 1994.
  Cyberjournalist
    News for online writers and editors.
  FIRST AMENDMENT HANDBOOK
  For Writers.com
    All sorts of tools - reference, history and much more.
  Journalists Toolbox
    "Features more than 7,000 Web sites helpful to the media and anyone else doing research. This site is designed to help you find sites and tools the search engines miss."
  Journalist Training
    No Train, No gain. Resources for the training of journalists put together by participants of the Training Editor's Conference. Searchable resource directory.
  National Press Club
    Not only the Press Club, but access to their library and a very deep list of links to reporting tools.
  Niles Online
    Two sites in one - "Finding Data on the Internet" and "Statistics Every Writer Should Know".
  The Poynter Institute
    Home page for the journalism think-tank.
  PowerReporting
    Search for research resources for journalists.
  Pulitzer Prizes
    Lists of current winners, some stories, bios, etc.
  SLA News Division
    Keep up with those wacky news librarians on their website. Includes a list of papers with archives on the Net.
  Virtual Gumshoe (formally Webgator)
    "Investigative resources on the Web" - FREE!
   
   
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Updated : May 2008