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Resources for reporters
...and other online searchersGoal: Finding the Top 1,000 Boston Reporters' Links
I hope this gradually-getting-organized collection of links will be useful for students, journalists and news researchers working in Massachusetts and elsewhere. The long "for news beats" section (more than 30 pages) starts with Massachusetts state government, then focuses on Greater Boston before getting to a collection of "topic" beats, such as business, health, etc.
The "big lists" are link collections from dozens of journalism schools and organizations. Other headings are self-explanatory. Within the major topics there are 90 subtopics. (Netscape may do a better job of using indentation to show the relationship of topics and subtopics, the result of using a bookmarking-program to create this list.)In addition to these reporting links, I have separate collections for online journalism (including a news site list and online publishing issues), and for writing, editing and related journalism topics. At the time this list was posted, the most recent addition was a journalism job-hunting section.
Pardon the mess. If you are looking for a particular site or topic on this "reporting" page, try searching for a key word or two with the Apple-F or Control-F "find" command in your Web browser.
Author: See Bob's home page
Last update May 13, 2002
links annotated and exported using
URL Manager Pro for Macintosh.
news beats | big-lists | people | computer-assisted | overviews/tips | media-law | library-reference | search/evaluate
For news beats
...almost any beat
- IRE's Beat Source Database (search)
- Search for agriculture,arts, business, courts, crime, education, etc. at Investigative Reporters & Editors.
- NewsLab Index of beat-related links
- Beat resource lists: Water Quality; News & Numbers; Health Care; Census 2000; Rural Issues; Consumer Issues; Campaigns & Elections; Money & Politics; Courts & Justice; Electricity Deregulation; Growth & Sprawl; Transit & Rail; School Funding; Children
- User's Guide to Open Records and Massachusetts laws re: open meetings & records
- "Tapping Officials' Secrets" pages from the Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press; also sold in printed form to support the group's work.
- State Press Shield & Confidentiality Laws
- Also from RCFP, with descriptions of state litigation on source-confidentiality issues (shield laws in some states).
Covering Massachusetts, Boston & local communities
- The 50 States Project
- From the Center for Public Integrity, includes a Massachusetts Report Card with information on lobbyists, private financial interests of legislators, financial-disclosure laws and more.
- The State House News Service
- An independent, privately owned wire service. Its public site has information about its by-subscription e-mail and Web-based calendars, press releases and stories from Beacon Hill, as well as resources like this Mass Media list
- Stateline.org Massachusetts site
- Links and news tips on stories affecting states; special reports on issues from election reform to taxes; bios of officials.
- Massachusetts Municipal data bank
- State Div. of Local Services collections of financial, economic and demographic info on cities and towns.
- State and Local Government on the Net-Mass.
- statelocalgov.net lists statewide offices, branches of government, regional, county, city, libraries and other links
- Mass. Municipal Assn.-local govt links
- municipal web sites, state legislative hearings, as well as addresses, phones and demographics
- Massachusetts Municipal Association-home page
- databases of city and town hall addresses and phones, nonprofit nonpartisan group providing advocacy, publications and serviceds to cities and towns.
- Massachusetts QuickFacts from census.gov
- County and City Data Book from census.gov
Statewide watchdog & info organizatons
- Stateline.org: State News
- Founded by the Pew Foundation to help journalists, policy makers and citizens be better informed about innovative public policies at the state level. Includes data on politics, taxes, budgets, crime, campaign finance, healthcare, enviroment, more. Specific sections for each state, including Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts Consumers' Coalition
- League of Women Voters of Massachusetts Home Page
- Overview information about state government branches, salaries, powers, etc. National LWV site has genera background on state and local branches.
- MASSPIRG Public Interest Research Group
- Mass. Voters for Clean Elections campaign finance reform campaign.
- The Center for Public Integrity
- Funds and publishes booklength investigative reporting on government and business issues.
- Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts:
State government sources
(The state.ma.us Web site was reorganized after the last full test of this list)
- Citizens' Guide To State Services
- Tips for Searching
- Gov. Swift's FY2003 H1A Budget Recommendations
- MMA State Budget News-FY03 ...
- Mass. Municipal Assn. report on governor's budget.
- MAGNET Massachusetts Government Home Page
- FindLaw: State Resources: Massachusetts FindLaw
- links to bar assn, news and media, lawyer directory
- State Ethics Commission
- Massachusetts State House Tour Information
- Official website of the Commonwealth of Massachþ
- The General Court
- Online Government in Massachusetts
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Calendar of Events
- Massachusetts Legislative Tracking System
- M.G.L. - Chapter 90F - Table of Contents
- M.G.L. - Chapter 138, Section 34
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Search Databases
- Nonprofit Corporation Information
- Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Corporations Division
- Direct Access Service
- Mass DocFinder
General info, stats, maps & state history
- Massachusetts Map
- Municipal Data Bank Spreadsheet Files
- Spreadsheets containing current and historical socioeconomic, financial, budget, property tax and assessment data for all 351 cities and towns
- Boston Globe Online / Census...
- County and City Data Book--fed reference
- The Massachusetts Electronic Atlas @ Harvard
- Massachusetts Electronic Atlas which contains about 250 kinds of data layers about the state. It covers diverse topics such as mortality, tourism, crime, and education; town and county comparisons.
- Miscellaneous Massachusetts Facts
- Newcomers Guide
- Mass Studies Project: Massachusetts Firsts
Daybooks & similar
- NewsFlash Mass Regional AP (for daybook)
- On This Day in History- NYT
Boston
- Boston Map from virtual travelers
- Shows major streets downtown
- Boston Aerial Photos from MIT + MassGIS Digital Orthophoto Project
- Zoom in on neighborhoods with aerial photos at several resolutions; Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS), Mass. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
- Suffolk County Sheriff's Department (SCSD)
- Duck Tours
Neighborhood papers & sources
- Boston Phoenix
- Boston's Weekly Dig
- The Bay State Banner Online Edition
- Beaconhilltimes
- South Boston Tribune.url
- South Boston, Massachusetts Online
- The South End .org
- Community events calendar and news.
- Beacon Hill Times weekly newspaper
- includes maps, community calendar, business info.
- Dorchester Reporter, Dorchester MA USA
- Weekly newspaper from "Boston's largest and most diverse neighborhood"
- Town Online: Community Newspapers
- Bay Windows - gay & lesbian
City Government
- City Of Boston-neighborhoods
- City Of Boston - Calendar
- Welcome to the City of Boston Online!
- City Of Boston - CityCouncil
- City Of Boston - Council meetings
- City Of Boston - Transactions
- City of Boston - ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
- City of Boston - ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
Human services & organizations
- Health & human services website
- Press release about collaboration between two very different human service organizationsAction for Boston Community Development (ABCD), Boston©s anti-poverty agency, and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), the city©s health department
- Community Technology Centers' Network: Affili...
- Action for Boston Community Development, Bost...
- BostonResourceNet: Welcome
- BostonResourceNet: Links and Resources
- Boston Public Schools
- Boston Online: Your guide to Boston
- General info site from Adam Gaffin, with special twists: Wicked Good guides to Boston English, public restrooms, bagels, what was wrong with "Good Will Hunting" and more.
- MASSPORT: Logan airport, bridges, ports
- Flight info, traveler's advisories; bridge & airport traffic, parking and weather info; changes in services and general press releases from "New England's busiest airport" plus HOV and cruise boats, shipping, etc.
- Boston Map from virtual travelers
- Shows major streets downtown
- Welcome to WB56's CityCam view of Boston
- Comments on BPL use (weblog)
- BPL Trustees consider city archives issue
- Big Dig/Traffic
- Part of www.bigdig.com -- this page should be a quick place to check for latest construction-related traffic changes, but with MSIE it looks like a mostly-blank page; HTML coding differences push the info down about seven screens!
- The Central Artery/Tunnel Project - The Big Dig
- Boston for residents @boston-online.com
- 100 top Boston web sites
- Boston.com / Your Town
- ShalomBoston.com: Everything For and About th...
- boston main streets business pages by neighborhood
- Town Online: Community Newspapers
- Get Around Town
- Boston Links: Newspapers
- Boston-Online media page
- Community Technology Centers' Network: Affili...
- http://www.ctcnet.org/workshop.html
Metro suburbs
Alphabetical list of towns bordering Boston, Cambridge & Somerville. For towns farther out, see map.
- Boston Globe / City Weekly & local news
- Boston.com carries the Globe's Sunday "City Weekly" section; right column menu includes links to the Globe South, West, North, NorthWest and New Hampshire local news sections.
- Boston.com / Your Town -- community profiles
- Boston.com community profiles include info on government, history, demographics, tax rate, education, public safety, transit, etc. Also can compare two communities, rank by tax and population density, more.
- Boston's neighboring communities
- Adam Gaffin's Boston-Online has a few Web links each for: Arlington, Brookline, Cambridge, Concord, Quincy, Somerville & Waltham. Local organizations are also indexed by category.
- Map of Boston Metropolitian towns and cities
- Arlington
- Braintree
Brookline
- Brookline
- Town of Brookline
- Brookline Police Cyber-Station
Cambridge
- Cambridge
- Cambridge Civic Network.url
- Cambridge Town Crier.url
- Cambridge Fire Department
- City of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Welcome | Cambridge Police Department
- Cambridge Consumers' Council Home Page
- City of Cambridge, MA - Federal and State Gov...
- Chelsea
- Dedham
- Everett
- Hull
- Medford
- Milton
- Needham
Newton
- NEWTV-Newton Cable TV
- Includes local news alerts, programs, city meetngs.
- Newton
- Newton, Mass. home page
- The Newton, Mass., Citizens WebPages
- Quincy
- Revere
Somerville
- Somerville
- USATODAY Somerville Officials - local
- City of Somerville
- Somerville Chamber of Commerce
- DHCD - Community Profiles - Somerville
- Boston.com / Your Town / Somerville
- Official City of Somerville Press Releases
- Welcome to somervillenet.org, Somerville, MA
- Somerville Community Computing Center
- Somerville
- Somerville Town Online: Community Resources
- Boston Links: Somerville
- Somerville Teachers Association
- for education beat; in addition to school boards and superintendents, check teacher unions
- Watertown
- Winthrop
Events calendars-GreaterBoston
- Community Calendar - Beacon Hill Times
- Emerson cafe calendar
- Museum of Science | Calendar of Events
- MFA calendar
- Boston University: Calendars
- Harvard College: events
- Harvard Gazette calendar
- Lesley Univ: Search the Events Database
- UMass Boston: Calendar of Events
- MIT Events Calendar
- Northeastern Campus Calendar
- Radcliffe Institute Calendar of Events
- Simmons College Events
- Tufts Calendar
Municipal Data Bank, Mass Div Local Services Mass. state aid to education -- DLS - Cherry Sheet Index "Cherry Sheets" are the records of state aid to school districts. Data is available in spreadsheet form. Boston.com / Your Town (351 Mass. towns) Information about Massachusetts communities by county, town and city, including statistics on population, taxes and schools, and ability to rank the state's towns based on various stats. Subway map Downloadable GIF image of T map, stored at Arnold Arboretum Arnold Arboretum Home Page Boston's 265-acre park and botanical collection. Emerson office of Public Affairs EmersonToday monthly online, with phones and names for PR staff. Boston Map from virtual travelers Shows major streets downtown Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau Bostonusa.com site (includes Cambridge) has PR contacts' names & phones, statistics about the area, maps, business directories, event listings, entertainment and other traveler or meeting-planner info. Press section includes seasonal events "previews" MASSPORT: Logan airport, bridges, ports Flight info, traveler's advisories; bridge & airport traffic, parking and weather info; changes in services and general press releases from "New England's busiest airport" plus HOV and cruise boats, shipping, etc. Top Mass Web Sites from ibiblio PeekABoo Massachusetts -- Cities & Towns -- Massachusetts Information and Library Network Yahoo! Regional:U.S. States:Massachusetts:Goverþ Massachusetts Communities NACo - About Counties - Introduction Massachusetts Newspapers Massachusetts Guide to Genealogical Research ... Massachusetts at Google Places outside the metro area
- Northampton, Massachusetts
- CAPE-ANN.COM
Politics & elections, Mass. & U.S.
Money, influence and campaign finance
- America's Voices -- conservative forum
- The Reform Institute--John McCain, chair
- Trevor Potter, director & gen'l counsel
- Campaign Finance Reform: The Issue
- Center for Responsive Politics
- UAW on Shays-Meehan bill
- Political site of United Auto Workers
- Mass. Voters for Clean Elections
- News clips and links on Finnernan, finance reform.
- Follow the Money - The Database
- Massachusetts Campaign Finance
- Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data
- Massachusetts Elections Division
- DemocracyNet.org -- LWV Election Info
- The Political Graveyard
- Despite the name, this site includes folks who aren't dead yet, just out of elective or appointed office.
- CNN-Time AllPolitics
- Political coverage resources-rtndf
- Inside Politics - Your Guide to National and ...
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Weblog-style collection of news clippings with links and area for readers to comment. Goddard is Kennedy School of gov't grad, author
- The Welch Report -- on the right
- American Politics Journal
- links, polls, columnists, "pundit pap"
- Common Cause - Citizens vs. special interests
- Libertarian Party: national
- DRUDGE REPORT 2001®
- Columnist Roundup @ Voter.com
- Campaign Resources-rtndf
- The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and T...
- Welcome to Votenet.com
- FECInfo Home Page
- Vote Smart Web
- www.Intellect...artment50.asp
- www.freedomchannel.com/
- www.voxcap.com/content/c2k/
- LEONARDS' DIGEST - Third Party Watch
- Netizens for Bradley
- Insider - state capitol political coverage in N.C.
- Spin-off of Raleigh News & Observer's subscription-based capitol newsletter.
Green Party
- Ralph Nader for President Home Page
- Nader 2000 - Press and Events
- Massachusetts Green Party
- Mystic River Greens Homepage
Election 2000
- Starr Report 22 document home page
- Alexa Wayback Machine - Election 2000
- Archive of presidential campaign web materials; 1,184 sites.
- PBS Newshour election2000
- Salon.com politics2000
Transportation, Massachusetts & general
Boston Transportation
- The Central Artery/Tunnel Project - The Big Dig
- Very slow-loading with modem, but includes facts & figures, project maps, schedule, traffic info, finances and much more.
- MBTA Front Page -- schedules, maps, news, shop
- MBTA Press Releases
- Boston MPO -- Transportation planning
- Boston-area Metropolital Planning Organization; transportation info and data resources from one of 13 transit planning regions in the state
- Boston Links: Transportation
- 100 links to limos, buses, driving, planes, taxes, trains, water
- Boston Transportation: encyclopedia wiki..
- metroPlanet > BOSTON, transportation
- The Boston Street Railway -- fans of the old lines
- Monthly meetings, nostalgic films etc. at Masonic hall on Tremont St
- Boston Transit kavanagh transit
- The Real Boston Transit & Planning Site
- from allston.org -- go figure
- Soul Of America - Boston: Transportation
- Boston: Transportation --searchboston.com
- CityBuzz - Boston Transportation
- Boston Transportation & hotels - cityinsights
- cityinsights.com - hotel reservation and travel network
Massachusetts transportation
- Mass GIS geographic info
- Governor's office-transportation secretary
Massachusetts Highway Dept
- Mass state contract bidding info
- Mass Highway Dept
- Massachusetts Highway Department Homepage
- MassHighway Public Hearings
- MassHighway Press Releases
- Mass Port Authority (Massport)
- MASSPORT: Logan Airport
- Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (Turnpike)
- BigDig/Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel (CA/T)
- MPO Metro Planning -transportation
- §¬àof 13 Massachusetts regions established to carry out federally funded transportation plans and programs. Region includes 101 cities and towns, three million people,1,400 square miles
Aviation
- MASSPORT: Logan Airport
- Regional and federal aviation links
- Aviation Accident Data
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- FAA New England Region Information Site
- National Transportation Safety Board
- Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission
- Northwest Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
- United Airlines
- US Air
- Green Airport, Providence
- American Airlines
- Business Express
- Continental Airlines
- Delta Airlines
- Amtrak
- Caravan-commuter service
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Smartraveler-road conditions
- The Real Boston Transit & Planning Site
- Route3construction-Mass-NH
- U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
- National Transportation Safety Board
- The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
- FHWA detail-OHIM
- US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Transportation research & education
- A list of colleges for students interested in transportation degree programs, but also could be sources of information on transit research done there.
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
- NE Advanced Vehicle Consortium
- Non-profit association of private and public groups working on new vehicle technologies.
- Federal Highway Administration-DOT
- Includes state divisions.
- National Highway Traffic Safety hotline
- New England Transportation Consortium
- Based at UConn
- State Highway & Transport Officials
- American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials AASHTO
- I-95 corridor coalition
- Regional partnership of public and private transportation agencies from maine to Virginia.
- Connecticut Dot
- Rhode Island DOT
- Recycled materials resource center
- International road construction metwork
Religion, spirituality
- Obituaries at Readership Institute
- Northwestern U. institute aimed at finding out how to get more newspaper readership
- Helping.org -- phones and urls for volunteering
- ZEN -- at Kodaiji Temple; flash-multimedia presentation
- Sword of Truth Cover Page
- No telling how I stumbled on this...
- All One Wicca Visitor's Center
- Includes an online book about Wicca by Kaatryn MacMorgan
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
- short articles on alternative medicine as well as psychic, new age and occlt topics.
Social issues, family, poverty, economics
- Recommended US Latino Websites
- Resources for Journalists at Radcliffe
- Schlesinger Library women's history collection, Murray Research Center studies on juvenile delinquency, divorce; Public Policy Center reports on family, welfare, work.
- You Can't Go Homeless Again, by Lars Eighner
- Once-homeless, now a successful author, discusses the crime of being poor
- Works by Lars Eighner, homelessness, memoir, more
- Review of Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner
- Phil Greenspun's review, with reader comments.
Interest groups, progressive & other
- IndyMedia-I on the News (washingtonpost.com)
- t r u t h o u t
- Public Citizen
- Nader's consumer-citizen organization
- Conservative web watch site
- BuzzFlash Report
- Give For Change
- "Working Assets" content categories including Health, Media & Freedom of Expression, Peace & Human Rights, and more.
- AlterNet.org
- Human rights, environmental health, globalization, media culture and more. Columnists include Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Adriana Huffington and more.
- Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund pr...
- TOMPAINE.com -- A journal of opinion
- money & politics, environment, media criticism, history... economic reporting, organized labor
- Commondreams Progressive news...
- jam.media.org: get involved.
- Culture jamming and filling voids
- Media Alliance. Training and resources for media workers, activists and community organizations.
- bay area progressive org with training on media skills and uses
- AlterNet € Search engine
- Searches aricles in progressive publications.
- OJR J.D.'s Web Watch: The Wired Left Awakens
- JD Lasica writes about AlterNet as "grassroots insurgency" challenge to the big-media infotainment machine.
- Ken McCarthy - UNCENSORED!
- Essential Information WWW Server
- many citizen & consumer organizations
- Jim Hightower
- Welcome to WorkingForChange
- Public Agenda Online
- Free Speech Internet Television
- WebActive
- CounterSpin, the radio program of Fairness & Acþ
Other states
NewHampshire
- NH in AJR NewsLink
- University of New Hampshire (UNH) Home Page
- Dartmouth College
- stateline.org: New Hampshire
- Yahoo! Regional:U.S. States:New Hampshire:Government
- WEBSTER: The New Hampshire State Government Online Information Center
- Rindge
- New Hampshire Newspapers and Magazines Online
- NH Department of Education
- New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission
- New Hampshire Schools
- College Directory -- At a Glance, Franklin Pierce College: USNews - edu
Connecticut
- CT Secretary of the State - Main
- CT Radio & Television Stations
- From Secretary of State's Connecticut Register & Manual
- Connecticut Population Shifts Toward New York
- Census data story in NYTmes, march 20, 2001
- stateline.org: your source for state news
- Issues and links
- Top State Web Sites
Business, service, labor & consumer (State, national and local)
Labor
- Massachusetts AFL-CIO - Press Room
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- United States Department of Labor
- UAW - Politics
- United Auto Workers press releases on issues
- UAW United Auto Workers
- auto, aerospace and "agricultural implement" workers
- AFSCME public employees union
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
- Labor Press Project -- media history
- Sponsored by the U of Washington Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies; includes bibliography of labor history, especially in the Northwest.
SEC-Edgar sites
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Welcome to EDGARspace
- EDGAR Online: The Source For Today's SEC Filings
- US Securities and Exchange Commission (invest...
- EDGAR Online: The Source For Today's SEC Filings
- Investor Education and Assistance
- About EDGAR
- EDGAR Database
Boston area businesses & consumer orgs
- Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Bostonusa.com site (includes Cambridge) has PR contacts' names & phones, statistics about the area, maps, business directories, event listings, entertainment and other traveler or meeting-planner info. Press section includes seasonal events "previews"
- Cambridge Consumers' Council Home Page
- Boston-area Auto Mechanics List
- Boston Business Journal
Transportation & utilities
- Subway map
- Downloadable GIF image of T map, stored at Arnold Arboretum
- Electricity Deregulation: The Issue € opensecrets.org
- MASSPORT: Logan airport, bridges, ports
- Flight info, traveler's advisories; bridge & airport traffic, parking and weather info; changes in services and general press releases from "New England's busiest airport" plus HOV and cruise boats, shipping, etc.
Researching Companies
- Hoover's Online - The Business Network
- Researching Companies on the Internet - A Tutorial
- Deb Flanagan has info on financials, industry overviews and high-level company info.
- State Book of Corporations
- a listing of for-profit corporations doing business in Massachusetts from Division of Local Services
- Trademarks & Patents: News Media & Publications Info
- From USPTO.gov public affairs office.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Searchable -- or file your own!
- CorpWatch.org anti-capitalist interest group
- Campaigns for a corporate-free UN, has research tools and library of issue-oriented articles.
- AT&T Features Archive: Telephone scams
- the "please dial 9#0 for me" fraud and others, as well as general service features from AT&T's web site.
- Valley Advocate: PR Nation, John Stauber interview
- Author of "Toxic Sludge is Good for You" interviewed by Amherst weekly.
- Investment research firms -- Lashinsky series
- The Street.com columnist's testimony on the quality of equity research available to investors
- Commercial Alert
- "Protecting children and communities from commercialism." Investigates marketing to children, marketing of alcohol, gambline, junk food, tobacco, etc.
- PR Watch Home Page
- Investigative reporting about the public relations industry
- Map of the Market -- Smartmoney
- Interesting interface to market info, but is it really useful to see all that red ink at once?
- Pollution Scorecard from EDF (scorecard.org)
- Enter your zip code and see where the pollution is. Environmental Defense provides massive database info on air pollution, lead, land contamination, farm waste, and clean water issues.
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration -...
- IMRA-retailers association
- Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-01 Edition -bls
- Tracking business rumors by computer
- Guardian article (april 13, 2001), "Have a bitch about the bosses" Corporate America is finding out what staff and customers really think through complaint sites.
- Patent and Trademark Databases Should Be On-Line
- Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data
- Business contributions; issue profiles on nuclear energy, airlines, managed care, electricity deregulation etc.
- NewsLab Internet Guide to Covering Consumer News
- From Park-foundation TV news "lab" in Washington. Useful brief comment on each link.
- Kagan.com - media industry news
- USADATA: Data-To-Go > Demographic Reports > Boston
- A sample of pay services
- USADATA: Gain Insight. Get Customers.
- FT.com Financial Times (Brit) global business news
- IPO.com - Initial Public Offering News and In...
- National Fraud Information Center
- Forbes.com Companies
- Yankee Group Press Releases
- Yankee Group -- tech biz analysts
- The New York Times: E-Commerce
- National Institute for Consumer Education
- Locating U.S. Corporation Records Online - Secretaries of State Directory 2000
- Business and Technology Research Library: "A Business Researcher's Interests": Searchable Knowledge Map for Leading Edge Thinking on Business, Technology & Knowledge Management
- Multinational Monitor On-Line
- Reporting Tools: Economics glossary
- Biz Links -- Brit MBA
- Focus on the Corporation
- Electronic Business Information
- St. Louis SPJ Legal, Financial, and Economic Inþ
- The FNwire | Business and Technology News Satire
- The FNwire | About Us
- SEC list of Other Sites to Visit for Business ref
Security, Disasters, Military
- Reporting A Crisis
Sept. 11 Victim Funds
- American Liberty Partnership
- Pentagon Victims Fund
- September 11th Attack on America Fund
- The September 11th Fund
- World Trade Center/
Pentagon Fund- Twin Towers Orphan Fund
- Responding to Tragedy
- American Red Cross
- Office of Homeland Security
- DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Ter...
- a self-supporting Internet publication investigative reporting and analysis in international terrorism, intelligence, Islam, military affairs, security...in English and Hebrew
US Military
- Most of these links came from the Department of Defense site and Any Service Member, created after the Anthrax scare shut down the US mail tradition of sending holiday greetings.
- DoD FOI Act info
- FOI Electronic Reading Room
Armed Forces Branches
- Army
- Coast Guard
- Marine Corps
- Navy
- Air Force
Enduring Freedom & Noble Eagle
- Post to Any Service Member
- Noble Eagle
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Operation Noble Eagle
- Enduring Freedom
Department of Defense
- Attack on America
- DefenseLINK - Official Web Site of the U.S. D...
- DefenseDept-DefendAMERICA
- DoD Executive Agent
- Commanders for Homeland Defense
- Attack on the Pentagon
- Joint Combat Camera Imagery
- Guard & Reserve Toolkit
- Military Seals
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- DoD UFO Info page
Military Commands
- Central Command
- European Command
- Joint Forces Command
- Pacific Command
- Southern Command
- Space Command
- Special Operations Command
- Strategic Command
- Transportation Command
- 'United We Stand'
- Anthrax Information
- Community-Based Military
- DeploymentLINK
- ESGR
- JTF Civil Support
- Patriotic Music
- Post-Disaster Guidance and Other Information
- Ranger Training Brigade
Fire & Emergency
- USFA -- Find! Fire Information Now Database
- links for EMS, fire rescue etc.
- USFA -- NFA Self-Study - Emergency Response
- US Fire Academy links to 5mb self-study course on emergency response to terrorism.
- Training for "First Responders" to terrorist acts
- From Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- COLLEGE FIRE SAFETY.org
- Resources for fire safety (from collegefiresafety.org)
- includes research laboratories on alarms, sprinklers, building design.
- Training for "First Responders" to terrorist acts
- From Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- Will Truth Again Be The First Casualty? CPI report
- Summary of study of press restrictions on persian Gulf, Grenada, Panama and Falkland wars concludes that press was muzzled to protect political images and priorities, not for security purposes.
- Spy Equipment - Spy Gear from spylife
- Intelligence Resource Program-Fed of Amer Scientists
- Links to web reources on goverment security, imagery intelligence, intelligence reform, etc. and "secrecy news"
- AirForce Air Univ: Future Studies documents
- military strategy and security documents
- IRE Tipsheets (WTC91101)
- Poynter.org - Covering the Attack
- Poynter.org - Terrorism
- Newscoverage Unlimited-selfhelp group
- Dart Center for Journalism & Traumatic Stress
- Resources for covering disaster
- Five steps to covering effectivly
Crime, Justice, Police & Fire
See my separate "Media Law" bookmark collection, including online issues.
- COURTTV.COM news, trials, people, crime lab
- Includes trial stories, wills of famous people, famous cases of the past.
- ScanBoston
- Information on police and fire scanners in Massachusetts, including links to web feeds, which may or may not work
- theBravest.com -- Live Fire Radio
- ny-boston-providence
- Welcome to Justice Talking!
- NPR program discusses and debates issues from video surveillance to intellectual property; focuses on cases before the courts; site includes archives, polls.
- MAP: The Media Awareness Project - drug policy reform
- "DrugSense" newsletter and 70,000 drug-law-reform clippings
- Campus Law Enforcement Web Sites
- List of campus police sites organized by state; compiled by USC; 30+ in Massachusetts alone
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Home page
- Federal, state and campus stats; crimes, victims, courts, corrections, etc.
- City Of Boston Police Dept
- press releases, contact info, FAQ, stats, and info on domestic violence, sexual assault, youth programs, most wanted list
- City Of Boston Fire Dept
- Mass. Municipal Assn.-Police and Fire Dept. Sites
- Chiefs of police association and local police and fire web sites by city.
- Training for "First Responders" to terrorist acts
- From Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
- Resources for fire safety (from collegefiresafety.org)
- includes research laboratories on alarms, sprinklers, building design.
- COLLEGE FIRE SAFETY.org
- Student Press Law Center
- Dart Center for Journalism & Traumatic Stress
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- keystroke monitors, surveillance systems and more
Law (See note)
- Related sites under Internet issues and Journalism issues; privacy, computer crime, defamation, intellectual property cases, etc.
- FindLaw Legal News
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- Some specialty sections by password only, for subscrib ers to the newspaper.
- The Social Law Library, serving the legal community since 1804
- link of week, daily opinions, events calendar
- FindLaw: State Resources: Massachusetts: Web Sites
- Link list includes ethics, faq, drunk driving, legislators, more.
- Gun Violence in America - ABA Resources - Diviþ
- Oyez: Search by Subjects - Freedom ofþ
- Oyez New York Times v. Sullivan - Doþ
- Oyez: FCC v. Pacifica Foundation - Doþ
- Make No Law, by Anthony Lewis - CJR, Nov/Dec 91
- Links to sites concerning famous constitutuionaþ
- Supreme Court Cases- Summary
- Famous American Trials - UMKC School of Law - Pþ
- FindLaw Dictionary
- FindLaw Dictionary
Federal agencies; N.E. cases
- RI Mayor indicted -- US Atty PR
- DOJ: Press Releases from FBI, US Attorneys, DEA etc
- "Components" of the Department of Justice, including its Office of Public Affairs, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI and more.
- USDOJ District of Massachusetts - 1998 Press Releases
- Department of Justice has New England press releases for several years, but the site isn't current. Good examples of what federal crime press releases look like, though.
- Lawrence voting rights case 2001 - DOJ PR
- Press release from US Dept of Justice
- Lawrence voting rights case 1999 -- DOJ PR
- Federal Court link list from USDOL
- From Office of Administrative Law Judges, but includes federal circuit court sites, law, regulations. etc.
- GangLandNews.com
- Former NY Daily News columnist Jerry Capeci's site about organized crime, ganglandnews.com
- NYT review of GangLandNews.com
- "A Cyberspace Reading Room for Wise Guys" created by former NY Daily News organized-crime reporter Jerry Capeci
- MFroomkin's homepage at UM School of Law
- Internet law issues, ICANN, anonymity, privacy, economics and "The Virtual Law School"
- C Y B E R C R I M E Cybercrime federal info site at DOJ
- Computer crime, intellectual property crime, legal and policy issues, press releases, etc.
- City Of Boston Police Press Relations, Crime stats etc
- City Of Boston Police Department
- Covering Campus Crime: A Handook for Journalists
- Full text third edition online (downloadable)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI Home Page
- U. S. Crime Statistics Total and by State
- The Disaster Center Index Page
- Dick Lehr - Bookbrowse.com
- Contentville - Legal Docs.
- Massachusetts State Police Home Page
- Wanted by the State Police--Massachusetts
- FindThemFast-DMV
- Librarians' Resources
- Mass. Criminal Offender Records at CHSB
- Criminal History Systems Board's acronym factory: Criminal Justice Information System; Firearm records, victims services and criminal offender records (CJIS, FRB, VSU; CORI)
- CHSB: access to criminal records
- Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI)
- Pathfinders topic list, state law library
- docs on criminal records, abortion law; Child Support over Age Eighteen; Domestic Violence; Emancipation of Minors; emotional distress, homestead law, eviction, mechanic liens, more.
- Rights Concerning Criminal Records in Mass. - Pathfinder
- links to specific cases and statutes; e.g. Globe newspaper case on sealing records
- Disaster Coverage: Internet Resources
- The Justice on Campus Project
- CopNet Directory
- www.copnet.org - Massachusetts
- FindThemFast-DMV
- APBnews.com: Crime, Justice, Safety
Science, medicine, environment
- Earth Day Online (earth share new england)
- Earth Share of New England. We are a coalition of more than 75 environmental organizations working to protect and preserve New England©s natural resources and public health.
- Federation of American Scientists
- News, action alerts, sections on global security resources and emerging technologies.
- Basel Action Network
- "The Basel Action Network (BAN) works to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis." Named for the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
- Communicating Science News--from NASW
- Science Writers Assn advice to scientists about talking to reporters, science writers, etc.
- Arnold Arboretum Home Page
- Boston's 265-acre park and botanical collection.
- Federation of American Scientists
- Does analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including security, weapons, biohazards, secrecy, educaoin, education; includes 58 Nobel laureates
- ResearchIndex [NEC Research Institute)
- Free public service from NEC, including 400,000 documents, 5 million citations; computer science and more
- Patent and Trademark Databases Should Be On-Line
- United States Patent and Trademark Office Hom...
- Science News Online
- MASSPIRG
- Northeast Action Homepage
- NASA Information Services
- philosophy of science archive at Pitt
Health & medicine
- Board of Registration in Medicine (Massachusetts medical board)
- NutritionAction.org
- from Center for Science in the Public Interest
Smoking
- Toll of Tobacco in Mass -- tobaccofreekids
- State Tobacco Control Highlights 1999 -- CDC
- Anti-smoking websites & Master index of anti-tobacco links
- Reason Magazine -- Jacob Sullum biography
- For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health - Home
- Poynter.org - Links to the News - Health Care
- Link categories include government related, medical organizations, journalism resources, health columns, detailed sections on influenze, patients bill of rightts, more.
- Managed Care: The Issue € at opensecrets.org
- Opensecrets is about money and politics.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
- short articles on alternative medicine as well as psychic, new age and occlt topics.
- WebMD - Who are We?
- Medical information site cites its writers' credentials.
- Innovations in End-of-Life Care
- From Education Development Center, Inc. Samantha Libby Sodickson, editor
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Body Art Information at DPH
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Health Beat
- Health Beat Online Resources
Weather
- WRAL OnLine - Ask the Meteorologists FAQ
- Weather Information Superhighway
- The Weather Channel
Ecology and Environment
- ENV 202 Syllabus -- Environment Studies at Princeton
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment
- How Much is Enough? The Environmental Movement
- by Bill McKibben, at Harvard 2000
- BOSS HOG: North Carolina's Pork Revolution € N&O Pulitzer
- Hogwatch list of citations, including N&O
- Hog Watch from Environmental Defense
- Related to N&O Pulitzer series.
- Industry Sector Community Guides (waste/pollution)
- from Environmental Defense, includes info on manufacturing processes, pollution prevention. Industries covered: Vehicle Assembly, Oil Refining, Iron and Steel Manufacturing, etc.
- Alliance for Environmental Innovation
- Boston-based offshoot of Environmental Defense and Pew, works with businesses to reduce pollution and waste.
- Pollution Scorecard from EDF (scorecard.org)
- Enter your zip code and see where the pollution is. Environmental Defense provides massive database info on air pollution, lead, land contamination, farm waste, and clean water issues.
- RTNDA Environmental Journalism
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- Enviro Def Fund Scorecard Home
- Links to Ecology
- Sites of Ecological Interest
Environmental ethics
- The Environmental Ethics & Public Policy (EE&...
- Tim Weiskel, director
- Working Group on Environmental Justice
- Tufts Institute of the Environment
- Recent Online Publications
Education and children
Mostly for the education beat reporter; elsewhere I have online-arts material under "Digital Culture" and educator-centered material under "Pedagogy"
- Higher Education Information Center (HEIC)-Greater Boston
- Info for applicants, people looking for courses, counseling, etc. Affiliated with The Education Resources Institute (TERI), a national non-profit organization offering education loans.
- Community & Tech Colleges-Mass.-Yahoo list
- Public Colleges in Massachusetts - Yahoo list
- Private Colleges in Massachusetts - Yahoo list
- Upromise - The Way to Save for College
- Children Now: The News Media's Picture
- Issues of media coverage, leadership and local action for kids, from prenatal health and child care to youth unemployment.
- Education Week- Daily News .url
- Mass. state aid to education -- DLS - Cherry Sheet Index
- "Cherry Sheets" are the records of state aid to school districts. Data is available in spreadsheet form.
- Emerson office of Public Affairs
- EmersonToday monthly online, with phones and names for PR staff.
- The Knowledge Loom: education-focused best-practices
- Discussion site for educators
- NYTimes list of Education links
- US DoE, Benton foundation, etc.
- New England Board of Higher Education
- Education Writers Association
- Ed Statistics Fast Facts Tool
- Bilingual/ESL Web Sites
- Student Press Law Center
- The New York Times: Education Tech archives
- School Finance Web Site
- Preliminary FY02 Chapter 70 Aid
- Mass Board of Higher Education
- ProfNet -- academic PR officers and more
- Power Reporting ed beat
- CyberTimes Education Index
- New England Colleges and Universities Web Links
- Public Agenda:Education beat
- Boston Phoenix -- Listings Index
Federal Government
- USATODAY government search
- Find bills, issues, how legislators voted, bios, PAC contributions and contact information; also locates media within zipcode areas.
- NationalJournal.com -- National Journal Group...
- Daily and weekly publications on government, politics, polls, health, technology; available online through library subscriptions.
- Browse Topics of all GPO documents
- Hundreds of federal publications by topic: from accounting, aerospace, africa... to women, workers comp and zip codes.
- Federal Register: Helpful Hints
- GPO Access help page including sample searches for Federal Register 1994 to present.
- Using the Census-SRoss
- FirstGov.gov - First Time User's "about" info
- FirstGov.gov - "First Click to the U.S. Government"
- The Federal Web Locator at infoctr.edu
- Reporting Census 2000
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Stati...
- FedWorld Information Network Home Page
- GoogleGov
- DOJ: Other Agencies FOIA
- GAO Investigators Guide to Info Sources
- Washingtonpost.com: The Federal Internet Guide
- Exempt Organization Search - IRS
- United States Patent and Trademark Office Hom...
- Power Reporting: Census 2000
- Assessing EGovernment, 2000
- Assessing Egovernment: Internet Service Deliv...
Govt Printing Office sites
- GAO/OSI-97-2 Investigators Guide to Sources of þ
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- Need Help? gpo docs
- General Searching Instructions-gpo databases
- explains Boolean operators, quote marks, complex queries, stopwords etc.
- GPO Access Database how-to
- About GPO databases, content & file formats, hints.
- Database List on GPO Access
US Congress (House & Senate)
- Congressional Record
- United States House of Representatives - 106th þ
- THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
- Library of Congress Home Page
- U.S. Senate glossary page
- Congressional Calendars: Helpful Hints
- Congressional Pictorial Directory - Massachus...
- Congressional Pictorial Directory - One Hundr...
- New Member Pictorial Directory 107th Congress
- United States Congress
- Federal Register: Helpful Hints
Federal agencies
Archives
- National Archives and Records Administration Hoþ
- The Research Room (National Archives and Recordþ
- NAIL Homepage
- IRS - The Digital Daily: Income Tax Forms, Instþ
- govWorks.com. How can we work for you?
- e-government developer
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Internal Revenue Service
- Welcome to the White House
- TROPICAL PREDICTION CENTER/NATIONAL HURRICANE Cþ
- National Archives and Records Administration Hoþ
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- FAA Office of Accident Investigation
- Federal Trade Commission Home Page
- US Securities and Exchange Commission
- US Census Bureau Home Page
Articles about federal info online
- One Government Site Has All the Answers
Elections & Politics
- Guardian Unlimited | US Election
- British newspaper's look at US presidential race 2000
- Web White & Blue: Citizen participation online
- Project Vote Smart - A Voter's Self-Defense Sysþ
Fed Gov for kids
- GPO for kids Ben's Guide: Grades 9-12
- government info aimed at high school students
- Ben's Guide (9-12): Glossary
International
- Trade Arabia Tools: Business, Insight, Opport...
- Geography Education: Mapping The World By Hea...
- British Official Publications-Comm/media
- Internews International & Internet
- Open media watch, coverage by region of the world.
- Ellen Hume: Media Analyst and Journalist
- Ellen brings her international and national reporting experience to thoughts about "the future of news in this changing world of Internet and global entertainment, the role of journalism in a democracy, the importance of ethics" and more. Good links, too.
- Trade Arabia Tools: Business, Insight, Opport...
- Intelligence Hot Documents @ FAS
- Country Background Notes from US State Dept
- State department's background note files on countries of the world. (For pre-Jan.2001 --pre-GW Bush administration--archives see GPO link.) Includes geo-political, economic, demographic info.
- Country Background Notes from GPO Browse Topics
- Information on countries by region and on international organizations.
- WorldFactbook2000-CIA
- US International Trade Commission
- CIA list of foreign Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members
- WorldFactbook2000 - cia
- Information/Journalism/Canadiana Gateways
- Zapme - Business Directory-ireland
- via countrywatch
- The Washington Diplomat ambassador list
- The Washington Diplomat
- for international beat, includes diplomat list. Watch for spelling errors.
- The Number of Countries in the World
- CountryWatch.com - Website to the World
- free country info on people, history, economy, agriculture, energy, metals & environment; more for a fee.
- Globalization essay at countrywatch@school
South Asia at Sree.net
- SAJA: South Asian Journalists Association
- SAJA Stylebook
Big link lists from J-schools, papers, profs
- Poynter.org - online research tips
- Dube, Sreenivasan, Wendland
- IRE Resource Center
- 1,000 tipsheets; 17,000 sample stories!
- CyberTimes Navigator at nytimes.com
- Ostensibly the home page for the Times newsroom; brief comments, and new items are marked when added.
- AssignmentEditor.com - The Newsroom Home Page
- JIM LICHTENSTEIN, Managing Editor at CBS/WBBM-TV in Chicago, says he put together AssignmentEditor.com as a way to make his life easier by making those around him more self sufficient. Great collection of links by "beat" topic.
- Wired Journalist - Sites (by topic, framed)
- Links and info on Web rings for journalists; list itself is organized by categories, "accounting" to "world trouble spots," left frame for navigation; no comments on individual sites. Alternative-use the 165kb full list and the browser find command.
- Wired Journalist - 165kb list
- Long list. Links are grouped by beat topic headings; no commentary on contents of individual sites. Suggestion: Use browser's cmd-F or ctrl-F key to search for key words that might cut across categories.
- Profnet -- experts at colleges
- PR people and information officers at colleges, universities, corporations, medical centers, etc., will help reporters find sources.
- Resources For Journalists
- General Resources Books Broadcast Journalism Chat/Discussion Employment Ethics Finding Experts and Journalists Freedom of Information (FOI) Resources Journalism Awards/Grants Journalism History Journalism Schools Organizations News Headlines Newsgroups an
- USUS - internet guide for journalists and reporters
- European journalists describe the Internet, how it works, and how to "search" instead of "surf."{
- Stateline.org -- resources for news about states
- Pew-financed site for journalists, organized by state and by issue. Includes news alerts and search. Health, welfare, taxes, education, campaign finance & election reform, land use and environment, transportation, utilities, crime, state-of-state speeches
- State Government Reporter's Guide from stateline.org
- resource organizations and web sites topics including education, campaign finance
- Prof. Tudor's Megasources for Journalists
- From Toronto, with Canadian focus and downloadable book (.exe file) on CAR
- Tools for Online Journalists @ about.com
- Moderator Jack Downs
- Smarter Times: Archives -- topic-oriented NYT critiques
- NY Times watcher organizes archives by topics (crime, deregulation, education, etc.)
- Online Resources for Writers
- great collection of grammar, writing and MLA related links at CapitolCC, Hartford
- BFought at Syracuse - lists, newsletters & FOI
- Prof. Barbara Fought keeps track of journalism-related mailing lists and newsletters, and maintains a list of Freedom of Information Act resources. She's also co-author of News in a New Century textbook with Jerry Lanson.
- Journalism Access -- Mindy McAdams
- Mindy teaches online journalism in Florida; went from being a copyeditor to join the original Washington Post online team, and has plenty of online resources to share.
- Sree.net - Journalism Web tips
- Sree Srivanasan at Columbia University; active in online journalism awards; also South Asian journalists organization.
- Harry Amana's Writing/Reporting Page
- Prof. Amana is the head of the newswriting and reporting sequence at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism & Mass Communication. In addition to resource bookmarks, he archives story examples for classroom discussion.
- NewsLab Index
- Newslab has a list of Internet resources for journalists, as well as articles and research aimed at improving broadcast news.
- NewsLab Index of beat-related links
- Beat resource lists: Water Quality; News & Numbers; Health Care; Census 2000; Rural Issues; Consumer Issues; Campaigns & Elections; Money & Politics; Courts & Justice; Electricity Deregulation; Growth & Sprawl; Transit & Rail; School Funding; Children
- NewsLab: Links for Journalists
- Beats include water quality, health care, census, rural issues, consumer, elections, money & politics, courts and justice, electricity, growth & sprawl, more. (NewsLab is TV news research institute in D.C.)
- Missourian Journalism Resources
- Idaho Newspaper Hotlinks.url
- Using the Census-SRoss
- Power Reporting resources and training for journalists
- A Journalist's Guide to the Internet
- J-School Online - MMcGuire @ Carleton
- http://www.lapham.com/reporting.html
- Emerson Library Journalism Resources
- Power Reporting Top 100
- Welcome To The Reporters Network
- User Guide - Reporter's Desktop
- Pocket Internet Guide for Writers
- Finding Data on the Internet - A Journalist's Guide
- People finders, Calculators, other Tools from Arizona Lawyer
- CJR - Resources
- Online Journalism Review-LINKS
- Northern California SPJ Home Page
- St. Louis SPJ Sourcefinder
- Journalism Links
- Journalism and Research Webring (hacks)
- Brendan Moon's News Tools
- The Journalist's Toolbox--Mike Reilley
- a reporter's bookmarks
- Resources - Medill New Media Program
- Navigating the Net for Journalists
- Tools for Online Journalists - US Newspapers Neþ
- direct search-Search Tools and Directories
- Snap: Reference Resource Center
- Internet as rep tool
- Reporting Tools
- IRE Resource Center
- 1,000 tipsheets; 17,000 sample stories!
- The Nosy Reporter's Corner
- Salon.com Directory | Internet
- Archive of Salon articles about the Internet itself; online culture and commerce.
- EPN | The Electronic Policy Network
- Opinion articles on wide variety of topics: Building democracy, crime, environment, etc.
Facsnet
- FacsNet on Y2K
- Reporting Tools
- FACSNET: Journalism resources and education
rtndf & rtnda
- The Future of News -- RTNDF publications
- Wired Journalist - Sites (text only-157k)
- Reporters' Toolbox: Radio and Television
Poynter reporting tips & resources
- Poynter.org - Doing Journalism
- Poynter.org - Journalism Links
- breaking news-air crash research -poynter
- NoraPaul-Find an Expert-Poynter
- Poynter Daily Tip Sheet
- Poynter Tip Sheets Archive
Reporter.ORG
- reporter.org
- Reporter's Desktop / By Duff Wilson
- User Guide - Reporter's Desktop
Barbara Shapiro's lists
- Barbara's Graffiti News Researcher Pages
- Barbara's News Researcher Graffiti Page
Gannett
- Web tools for Newsrooms
- Web Resources for Newsrooms
U Missouri
- Columbia Missourian Web Resources
People finders, dates, area codes &c.
- Profnet -- experts at colleges
- PR people and information officers at colleges, universities, corporations, medical centers, etc., will help reporters find sources.
Deceased people
- The Political Graveyard
- Despite the name, this site includes folks who aren't dead yet, just out of elective or appointed office.
- Find A Grave -- famous people and 2.5 million others
- Dead People Server
- Ancestry.com - Home
- Find A Grave
- KnowX.com - The Ultimate People Finder Search:
- finds names and cities for free, charges for additional public records, licenses, background checks etc.
- google phonebook
- WhitePages.com forward and reverse directory
- find person, business, area code, zip code, email, web site; search by phone number or address; maps, international and toll-free directories
- WhitePages
- Reverse directories... Dube article at Poynter
- Searching by address, you can find phone numbers for everyone in a building, interview someone's neighbors, etc.
- White Pages - InfoSpace for palm
- 555-1212.com reverse lookup
- Palm pilot compatible
- Lookup_ctystzip
- Infospace home page
- White Pages - InfoSpace.com
- Reverse Lookup - InfoSpace.com
- US SEARCH (pay) records and information
- Charges $9.95 for "instant locate"; $60 for basic profile; $25 for rush orders; searches backgrounds, criminal records, death certificates, business/asset searches, lawsuits, etc.
- AnyWho: AT&T Phones: Yellow, White, Reverse
- People finders, Calculators, other Tools from Arizona Lawyer
- Welcome to the Bell Atlantic Regional Area Codeþ
- Bigfoot - Tools For The Internet
- The Oracle of Bacon -- film people
- Demo of database matching /and/ trivia game. Finds links between actors -- what films were they in together, leading ultimately to Kevin Bacon. Also makes "educated guesses" about misspelled names.
- Everything E-Mail ® - Info on E-mail Addresses, E-Mail Software, E-mail Services, and more!
- People Finder Guide
- People Finder Guide: Public Records
- infousa.com--search name or (reverse) phone number
- Bigfoot.com uses this service. Requires last name and state.
- People Finder chapter from Internet FactFinder for lawyers
- MouseTracker research on people
- The News-Record.com's compilation of Web cams
- On This Day
- Scout Report Signpost - Home
Numeracy & Computer Assisted Reporting
- Mass.- Municipal Data Bank
- downloadable current and historical financial, tax and other socioeconomic reports from state DLS
- Mass. state aid to education -- DLS - Cherry Sheet Index
- "Cherry Sheets" are the records of state aid to school districts. Data is available in spreadsheet form.
- Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
- It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and U...
- First chapter of book by STATS.org, aimed at demystifying news with numbers
Census & demographics
- State and Local Government Employment and Pay...
- Federal, State, and Local Governments - census info
- Census Map Server--find locations
- Social Security Administration
- FreeDemographics
- U.S. Census Bureau - Data Access Tools
- Population Projections
- Population PDF Publications
- U.S. Census Publication P25-1130 Current Population Reports
- Census Bureau Glossary
- The Associated Press Mass Census page
Precision Journalism, Phil Meyer
- The New Precision Journalism - Preface
- full text of Phil Meyer's 1991 book
- CARstat: Math competency test
- phil's math test answers by Bob
- excel1
- The New Precision Journalism - Chapter 8
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
- HyperStat Online: An Introductory Statistics ...
- How far is it? -- enter place names and click!
- From Bali to you!
- On-line for beat reporting - databases
- Freep Academy's advice on getting databases from organizations on a beat, using national referral sources, etc.
- NewsLab Internet Guide to News with Numbers
- Convertit.com -- calculators & conversions
- Includes weights, measures, time zones and more.
- Mass Municipal Data Bank Spreadsheet Files
- Spreadsheets containing current and historical socioeconomic, financial, budget, property tax and assessment data for all 351 cities and towns are available for downloading
- Reporting Census 2000
- 0320Times story on Connecticut census shifts
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- How Far is It
- What Is...The speed of... (a definition)
- Tudor's Journalism Resources
- The numerical wizardry behind budget
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistþ
- Amazon: Stat for the U... confused
- Ed Statistics Fast Facts Tool
Statistics, Polling & Research
- t r u t h o u t - Bush-O-Meter
- Zogby national polling firm
Stat sites from R Niles
- Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- Finding Data on the Internet
- IPL Pathfinder: Finding Statistics
- Historical United States Census Data Browser
- http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/.../census/cen.pl
- Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- Surfstat.australia
- External Links
- Excel for Professionals
- FedStats: A to Z
- Statistics on the Web
polling
- Welcome to Roper Starch Worldwide
- America Online/Roper Starch Cyberstudy 2
- The Gallup Organization
- Gallup Poll Releases - TIMELINE OF POLLING HISTþ
- THE PEOPLE THE PRESS HOME PAGE
- Polling
spss
- Statistics on the World Wide Web
- Free Download of Book -- SPSS for Beginners
- SPSS 6.1 for the Macintosh
- SPSS and Statistics Discussion, Help and Book Dþ
CARR related
- CARstat: Other Available Online Resources
- NICAR `Net Tour
- Tip Sheets from IRE/NICAR
- NICAR `Net Tour
- On-Line CAR Resources
- Dean Tudor's CARR page at Ryerson
- Describes texts, technology and links.
- Pulitzer redlining CAR: The Color of Money
- NoraPaul on CAR
- Car Syllabus-chris harper
- University of Miami Computer-Assisted Reportingþ
- Syllabi on computer-assisted reporting, preci...
- Analyzing Data Using Excel
- Power Reporting: Newsroom training: Tipsheets
- On Web-searching, evaluating quality, CARR etc.
- Newsengin Free Tools
Reporting tips, laws, overviews
Note: Many sections of this list have one or more links from American Journalism Review's "newslink" site. Now the two are being separated, so the magazine's old bookmarks don't work as of February 2002.
Investigative reporting - examples
- The Center for Public Integrity
- Funds and publishes booklength investigative reporting on government and business issues.
- Investigative Reporters and Editors € site
- See story of the week, tipsheet of the week, etc.
- IRE Training || Training Guide and tipsheets
- Search the IRE Resource Center Story Database
- Adbusters: Fox Guilty of Playing Chicken
- ABC7Chicago.com : I-Team Archive
FOI Requests, Public Records, Shield laws
- FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Info
- how to file FOI requests with FBI; PDF docs downloadable
Open records and open meetings laws
- User's Guide to OpenRecords info RCFP.org
- Mass. laws re:Open meetings & records
- From Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press (rcfp.org)
- State Press Shield & Confidentiality Laws--RCFP
- Reporters committee on freedom of the press, includes description of individual state litigation on confidentiality, and shield laws where they exist.
- User's Guide to OpenRecords info RCFP.org
- Mass. laws re:Open meetings & records
- From Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press (rcfp.org)
- DOJ: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Department of Justice FOIA pages, including list of contacts at federal agencies, reference guide, making a FOIA request, etc.
- FOIA Post -- DOJ position statements & reports on FOIA
- FOIA decisions, annual reports, memoranda etc.
- FOIA Post (Oct2001): New Attorney General FOIA Memo
- Ashcroft FOIA Memo about terrorism exemption and amendments
- Archives of FOI-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
- BFought at Syracuse - lists, newsletters & FOI
- Prof. Barbara Fought keeps track of journalism-related mailing lists and newsletters, and maintains a list of Freedom of Information Act resources. She's also co-author of News in a New Century textbook with Jerry Lanson.
- Mass Public Records law info from MLIN mailing list article
- SPLC: Sample State FOI Letter
- SPJ: FOI RESOURCE STATES CONTACTS - Mass.
- SPJ: FOI RESOURCE FOI SAMPLE STORIES
Reporting-textbooks
- Mencher text- NEWS REPORTING
- Mencher home page 2.url
- Mencher home page.url
Interviewing
- BBC - Interview Archive
- Interviewing 101-smalltownpress.net
- NYT Campus Weblines: Interviewing Techniques
- How to interview -- oral history UNC
- How to Conduct an Interview With a Source
Style guides
- BBC News | RADIO NEWSROOM | Alphabetical list...
- BBC News | RADIO NEWSROOM | Style Guide Intro
- A few pages of The Associated Press Stylebook
- The Public Radio Ethics and Style Guide
- Includes alphabetized database of usage and pronunciation rules, plus sections on production, ethics and law.
- Pronunciation, Usage and Grammar--NPR Style
- NPR's guide, compiled by Marcus Rosenbaum and John Dinges.
Law & reporters
- Massachusetts has no shield law -- rcfp
- State common law has recognized reporter's interests to some extent
- Massachusetts Open Records & Meetings Laws
- from reporterscommitee on freedom of the press; includes full statutes, procedures.
- Student Press Law Center
- Headlines, issues, and Open records request letter generator.
- "Can We Tape?" RCFP.org
- state by state guide to laws about tape-recording (Mass. is restrictive)
Ethics basics
- Journalistic ethics -- from CPI & SPJ
- Society of Professional Journalists - Ethics Code
Generating & sharing story ideas
- ReporterPitch- email story exchange
- TheBackhaul.com - Main Page
- TV news sites for story ideas
Backgrounding
- How to create a clip file
- Good advice from the editor of SmallTownPress.net
- Journalism and reporting the news for beginne...
- From reportingthetimes.com
- highschooljournalism.org - jargon
- NYT Campus Weblines: Beat Reporting
- Lessons for high school students, courtesy of the Times.
- Campus Weblines: Beat Reporting--dumb questions
- "Reading wrong lessons from a cheat sheet,"
- highschooljournalism.org - teachers - journal...
- NY Times Weekly News Quiz
- Small Town Press -- ideas and tips
- Resource: News Writing -- annenberg cpb
- annenberg cpb 8 hour course by television; available on tape.
- Newswriting course on CPB Annenberg
- Year 2002 course covers major issues, ethics, law, beat reporting and more.
- Reporting tips from Detroit Free Press
- Includes CAR basics, questions that focus stories, covering city hall, more.
- IPL Pathfinders Subjects - Internet Public Library
- Guides by library staff at Michigan State to get you started doing online and library research on dozens of topics.
- campus weblines: ch4 clear thinking & writing
- nyt feature on online newspapers for high schools
- State Databases
- Intended for legal research, but links to major directories and databases
- Boston Public Library (BPL) - Newspaper Room
Library & general Reference tools & issues
Glossaries, maps, dictionaries, encyc, etc.
News & general glossaries
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster
- whatis.com
- DAX | Education--glossary
- Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Inter...
- Dictionary of Difficult Words
- Newspaper Designer's Handbook Glossary
- RTNDF Wired Journalist - Glossary
- News in the Future GLOSSARY
- School Newspaper glossary-columbus nie
- The Vocabula Review
- Media Link BROADCAST GLOSSARY
Maps
- How Far is It
- VirtualTravelMaps.com
- Interactive online maps of Boston downtown anda few other cities. (Color 3-d aerial views showing buildings, tourist sites, etc)
- MapBlast!
- MapInfo Data Visualization Maps, Spatial Analysis and Geocoding Intranet and Extranet Solutions
- MapQuest
- Map Machine: Physical - United States @ nationalgeographic.com
- Maps.com
Tech & Media Glossaries
- News in the Future GLOSSARY
- whatis.com provides tech terms, glossaries & experts
- whatis.techtarget.com
- whatis.com IT glossary
- whatis.com
- DAX | Education--glossary
- Glossary - Weaving the Web - Berners-Lee
- Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Inter...
- Nerds 2.0.1 - Glossary from PBS Series
- Links to timeline, biographies and narrative history of computers and the Internet.
- Jargon File Resources--Hacker's Dictionary
- BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations
- acronyms for everything!
- Web Design glossary--Kovarik
- From Radford U Prof. Bill Kovarik's textbook, Web Design for the Mass Media
- The Chronicle: Jargon Monitor
- CNET features - techno - 20 questions: how the Net works
- resources - info source - glossary - index
- Microsoft FrontPage Glossary
- whatis.com IT glossary
- Discovery Online, Hackers' Hall of Fame-glossary
- A Glossary of Telecommunications Terms, 1998
- LangaList Home Page
- GLOSSARY of WWW, Web Searching, and Netscape Jargon
- Dictionary of Difficult Words
- Media Link BROADCAST GLOSSARY
- RTNDF Wired Journalist - Glossary
- Creating Online Media
- NetLingo Dictionary of Internet Words: A Glossary of Online Jargon with Definitions of Terminology & Acronyms
- Glossary of Internet Terms--nyt
- Glossary--InternetSKMacintosh
- Hypertext Terms
- HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
- Not just computers -- all kinds of devices and technologies. User interface is framed, includes ad streams, and can be slow by modem.
- AskMe.com -- knowledge sharing
- Who are the experts?
- ehow.com -- how-to instructions
- Some surprises: How to celebrate Bunker Hill Day?
- Britannica.com
- PC Webopaedia home page
- Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD
- Power Reporting: ref book list
News Librarians organization
- SLA news (special libraries)
- News Library Jobs and Internships
- SLA-Sources list
General research, lit, libraries, reference
General education refs
- A.Word.A.Day Home Page - vo.url
- Greek & Latin Epigraphy
- Atlas of the ancient world
- Interdisciplinary educ email list
- Education-cyberplyayground Tutorials
- Educational Cyberplayground-- K-12 teacher trainng and info for internet beginners, especially education resources, directory of "education vendors"
Books online
- Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
- Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style
- Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD
- Hamlet on the Ramparts
- MIT Shakespeare
- The SECRET Guide to Computers
college libraries
- UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
- U North Carolina-CH Library Services
- Welcome to UMass Boston Healey Library Catalog
- Wesleyan University Library Tutorial Home Page
Reference-literature
- Guide for Writing Research Papers
- Modern Language Association Documentation
- LCC8310D History of Communication
- LibrariesFor the FutureHome Page
- The Writers Alliance, Inc. (john@journalist.com)
- BiblioBytes - Researching Public Records
- Library of Congress
- Homework Links
- from somerville high school teacher mr. cook
- DESIRE Euro
- Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
- Columbia Guide to Online Style
- elements of citation, documenting sources, preparing bibliography
- Bible Gateway - Search the Bible in Nine Languaþ
- Shakespeare
- The American Heritage Project "Virtual Archives"
- Berkeley, Stanford, Duke & U of Virginia shared database of document-finding tools
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Newspapers at Connecticut State Library
- Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
- Mayfield Publishing Web Research Tutorial
- GAO/OSI-97-2 Investigators Guide to Sources of þ
- Literacy Index Home Page
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Fry's Reaþ
- Internet Research FAQ
- Guide To Electronic and Print Resources For Jouþ
- Poynter Online: Research Center Index
- Selected Subject Guides & Resources
- Journalism Library Home Page
- SLA News Division
- NEWS LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCHERS
- Ready Reference
- The Why Files
- ready references online
- reference refdesk.com
- Boston Public Library
- Emerson Library
- Emerson Copyright Policy
- The Internet Lawyer € legal and fact-finder links
- Reference Shelf by Rob Kabacoff
- words, phone numbers, zip codes, and more.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page
- Includes Journalism, TV, film, CDROM, music, radio, comics, Internet, cyberculture & telcom.
- Browse Topics of all GPO documents
- Hundreds of federal publications by topic: from accounting, aerospace, africa... to women, workers comp and zip codes.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet --Berkeley Sunsite
- Stumpers-L € list archives & faq for research librarians
- Dominican University Grad School of Library & Info Science, wombat wit & wisdom
- USUS - internet guide for journalists and reporters
- Stateline.org article about its news research site
- Profnet -- experts at colleges
- PR people and information officers at colleges, universities, corporations, medical centers, etc., will help reporters find sources.
- Internet Prospector Reference Desk - Nonprofit Prospect Research
- "Online!" Contents & Citation styles
- citation style chapters of book are online
- "Online!" Internet Sources link list (book)
- Link list organized like a library catalog... Accounting and Agriculture to Theater and Writing.
- ebrary
- British Official Publications
- Reference list from Winsor School library
Searching & Evaluating info sources
- ResearchBuzz Articles: Excite -- More than Me...
Media & mass comm academic research tools
Grants & Media foundations
- GrantSource Library
- The Reuter Foundation: Home Page
- The Reuter Foundation: Diary
- AEJMC: Communication Technology and Policy
- CIOS/Comserve main menu
- Howie's Home Page
- Proj for Excellence in Journalism Case Studies
- downloadable case studies in decision making
- Newsies: Links to journalists with home pages oþ
- TheStandard.com: ARTICLE DISPLAY
- CJR - Resources - Online Journalsim
- Journalism Exercises (john@journalist.com)
- notes.sej.org/
- News in a New Century textbook
- publisher's thin site
- WebRadio.com -press info
Using Public Relations resources
- PR sites' shortcomings newmedia.com
- Jakob Nielsen critiques PR sites online in article at newmedia.com
- Corporate Sites Seem to Skim... nyt
- Jakob Nielsen critiques PR sites online in NYTimes
- MediaMap PR tools & research
- PR Watch Home Page
- Investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
- Profnet -- experts at colleges
- PR people and information officers at colleges, universities, corporations, medical centers, etc., will help reporters find sources.
- Microsoft Announces Grants - PR sample
- Boston Community Centers and GrandFamilies programs get PR salvo from Microsoft.
- Andy Rooney: On Ethics and PR
- from cpb newswriting series
- Lobbyists and Astroturf from Microsoft
- fake "letters from ordinary citizens"
- PRSA Boston Chapter - Home
- Welcome to PRSA - national
- Public Relations Society's own site, resources, interests. What *are* the flacks thinking?
- PRSA-NCC Home Washington DC
- DC PR society chapter has "find and expert" and "professional services" links, faqs.
- Nielsen on Journalists & PR value of sites
- Executive summary of $$$ report on what journalists are looking for on organizations' sites.
- nyt on Nielsen PR site report
- Channel 7 on Nielsen PR report
- PR Insight: Corporate Web Sites Score Low in PR
Evaluating information; critical thinking
- Becoming a Critical Thinker (book excerpts)
- PR Watch Home Page
- Investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
- Valley Advocate: PR Nation, John Stauber interview
- Author of "Toxic Sludge is Good for You" interviewed by Amherst weekly.
- Reenactments and fakery on tv news
- from "Becoming a Critical Thinker" at skepdic.com
- Poynter.org - online research tips
- Dube, Sreenivasan, Wendland
- Bob Baker's Newsthinking
- Tips on writing and reporting from author of the book "newsthinking"
- TruthOrFiction.com
- Similar to Snopes, verifies or challenges online rumors, warnings, virus alerts.
- Evaluating Quality by Walt Howe
- From Delphi Web design forum -- checklist of ways to evaluate information quality. Ironically, design of the page may not be a great example of "quality."
- LLRX -- ResearchWire: Evaluating quality of web info
- From publisher of the Virtual Chase law web site.
- HSU Library Critical Thinking/Disinformation ...
- The Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
- legal research site, includes search tutorial, guidelines, checklist for evaluating quality.
- Free Pint - Helping you use the Web for your ...
- Free Pint is an email newsletter with tips on Internet searching and Web site reviews. archives, q&a online. Despite the name, some features require registration and fees
- LII - Evaluation of Internet resources
- Berkeley sunsite, Internet resource for librarians
- www.spawar.na.../welcome.page
- Teaching Library home page
- Using the Census-SRoss
- ucsb faq on evaluating sources
- STEP: Searching for, Evaluating and Citing Re...
- Welcome to the National Fraud Information Center
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: PBS Hoax
- The PBS & NPR Petition Hoax
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: PBS hoax
- Post drug-pulitzer case
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Counterintelligence-tools for media analysis
- NCAHF - Newsletter 20-1
- http://www.ncahf.org/internet.html
- Possible Article Contribution Topics
- UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
- Evaluation of information sources
- critical thinking skills - evaluation of WWW sites
- UNC bibliog of critical evaluation skills
- Evaluating Web Sites--Cornell
- Hope Tillman's Recent Presentations
- Evaluating Quality on the Net
- Evaluating the Evaluators
- Evaluating Quality on the Net-tillman
- Librarian Hope Tillman's Writings and Presentations
- Web Evaluation: Criteria
- Readings on Database Evaluation & Quality
- Evaluating Web-Based Resources
- BRILL'S CONTENT: Best of the Web: (04/00)
- BRILL'S CONTENT: Best of the Web: (04/00)
- Internet Content Rating Association
- Active Concepts: Web site analysis and monito...
Web searching tools &tips
- G E E K T O O L S
- geektools include calculators, rfcs, whois, spam tools and more
- SamSpade.org-whois and other quick tools
- traceroute, rwhois, author search, ip whois etc
- SamSpade.org Tools--tech search
- finds IP addresses, hidden URLs, etc.
- The Internet Archive: Building an 'Internet L...
- USUS - research techniques for an online journalist
Google tips & background
- Google Search Basics
- Google Search Tips
- How to Refine your Google Search
- Google Search Technology -- why use Google?
- Benefits of Google Search
Search OpenDirectory-ODP
- ODP - Open Directory Project
- Open Directory - Computers: Systems: Macintosh
- Open Directory - Computers: Hardware: Systems...
search tools
- Google Search Basics
- Google Search:
Fed Govt sites - Google Groups (Usenet search)
- Formerly "dejanews" or "deja.com," Google has taken over this major archive of Internet Usenet "newsgroup" messages on thousands of topics.
- Google Search: news.newusers.questions
- Search Engine Showdown
- AllTheWeb.com
- See advanced search options, including exact phrase
- AltaVista - AltaVista Advanced Search Tutorial
- Detailed directions for main and advanced searching with AltaVista, including sections on how AltaVista works and how to get your own site indexed.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Sear...
- BigYellow: Yellow Pages
- The Search Engine Report - Popular Articles
- Raging Search
Web directories
- Yahoo!
- Google Web Directory
Tutorials & tips--online searching
- Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Sear...
- Web Searching Tips at searchenginewatch
- Internet Guides, Tutorials, and Training (LOC)
- Link lists from the Library of Congress.
- Search Tools Features Chart at Harvard
- Compares Google, Deja, Excite on coverage, case, truncation,boolen operators, etc.
- LII - Evaluation of Internet resources
- All the Web, All the Time - alltheweb.com
- Mining the 'Deep Web' With Specialized Drills
- infotrac search tutorial
- Google Search Basics
- AltaVista--Directory vs Search
- AltaVista Advanced Search Tutorial - Table of...
- Power Searching For Anyone
- Web Searching Tips from Searchenginewatch
- AltaVista - Help - Search Cheat Sheet
- How to Refine your Google Search
- Basic Internet Searching Seminar
- Search Strategies
- Howstuffworks.com's "Building a search"
- Yahoo! How-To
Online bookmark managers
- Mossberg's Mailbox -- Personal Technology fro...
- MyBookmarks.com - Access your bookmarks onlin...
- Blink.com - manage, organize, and share your Weþ
- Backflip | bookmark-sharing service online
- Explore the Internet (Library of Congress)
- Search tools, topical guides, government browsers, etc.
- LII - Searching the Internet Topics
- Guidance from the Librarians Index to the Internet
- Learn the Net: An Internet Guide and Tutorial
- Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
- Internet as rep tool
- Howstuffworks.com's "How Internet Search Engi...
- Search Systems - Largest Free Public Records ...
- Pacific Information Resources, over 4000 public record databases.
- Copernic.com - program to use & filter search engines
- Search Engines and Their News Features 1999
- All the Web, All the Time - alltheweb.com
- AltaVista: Main Page
- AltaVista - Advanced Search
- [ MetaCrawler® ]
- CNET Search.com
- Northern Light Search
- Lycos
- U. Iowa Journalism - Online Searching and Inforþ
- MIT: Search
- Dogpile
- Meta Search Engines - Mega Search Engines : 1blþ
- GoTo.com - Search made simple.
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