Newswriting & Reporting
Links
These are links to sites that will assist you in your writing,
reporting and research.
They include sites that monitor and report on
the media.
(Last modified September 11, 2006)
Shortcuts:
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UNC/Student Media |
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Newswriting/Reporting Links
About
Public Relations
(More than 1,000 links to PR sources)
Accuracy In Media ("For Fairness,
Balance and Accuracy in News Reporting")
American Journalism
Review NewsLink (Job Listings and 8,000 news links!)
American Memory (44
Historical Collection Topics: Maps, Photos, Manuscripts)
Associated Press
Association of Alternative News Weeklies
(Over 100 papers)
Bible Gateway (Word and Passage searches)
Black Media Online (Black newspapers/ stations online)
BznetUSA (Free
connection with business experts)
C-SPAN.org ("Public Affairs on the Web")
Center for Investigative
Reporting
Center for Media Literacy (Includes
"Pictures Without Bias," on visual media)
Center for the Study of Popular Culture (Self-proclaimed neoconservative
Internet journalism)
Centre for the Study of
Cartoons and Caricatures (University of Kent at Canterbury)
Columbia Journalism Review
CIVIC JOURNALISM
COPY EDITING/STYLE/GRAMMAR/
Covering Crime and
Justice (A Guide for Journalists)
Drudge Report (Web site of the
controversial internet reporter)
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
(Liberal media-watch
organization)
Gannett
Globalinfo.org ("daily news service of the developing world")
Grateful Med (Database
searches of the National Library of Medicine)
Independent
Weekly (N.C. alternative weekly)
Infoplease Almanac
(Info on presidents, kings,etc./ facts behind the news)
International Association of
Business Communicators
Internet Movie Database (A movie search site for 200,000 titles)
Journal E ("Real Stories From Planet
Earth," and Kodak)
Journalism.org ("Research, Resources and Ideas to Improve Journalism")
The McClatchy Company (Second Largest Newspaper Co. in U.S.)
The Media Bias Web
Site (Essays about specific media inaccuracies)
Media Research Center (Conservative
media-watch organization)
Medscape ("The #1 Free
Internet Medical Site")
MedWebLit (Latest medical
literature from 22 medical journals)
Mojo Wire (Mother Jones
online)
Mumia Abu-Jamal's
Freedom Journal (Everything to know about this death-row
journalist)
National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
National Public Radio
(Includes RealAudio hourly newscasts)
Newseum ("The Interactive
Museum
of News")
NewsPlace (Site for news
sources and writing tips!)
News Watch ("Views on the news")
Niles Online (Site for internet
news sources and news-related statistics)
North Carolina News Network
(Latest newscasts with Real Audio)
North
Carolina Newspapers
OBITUARIES
Odum Institute (Public Opinion Poll Database)
Powers
of
Persuasion (National Archives -- WWII Poster Art)
Power Reporting
("Thousands of free research tools for journalists")
PR Newswire
(Public
relations wire, including Hispanic PR)
PRWeb ("The Free Wire Service")
PRSA (Public Relations Society of
America)
The Pulitzer Prize (Summary of prizes since 1917; complete articles since
1995)
Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The
Press (Free legal help for reporters/ FOI Guides)
Reuters
Student Press Law Center (Free
legal help for student press)
Top 100 Newspapers
UNC Health Care (Health &
medical news from UNC Hospitals & Med-School)
The Virtual Chase ("Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research")
WEB-SITE EVALUATIONS
Women in Journalism
(Oral History Project; Washington Press Club Foundation)
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University/Student Online Media
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UNC/Student Media |
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Journalism Organizations
Journalism-Education Sites
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UNC/Student Media |
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Activist/Lobbyist Links
Think-Tank Web Sites
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Public Domain Links |
Public Domain Links
Durham, N.C. Home Page
Garner
Hayti Heritage Center (Durham)
Institute of Government
N.C. Agencies (Search Site for all
N.C. Agencies)
N.C.
Cities and Towns
N.C. Counties
N.C. Counties
Map (from WRAL OnLine)
N.C. Higher Education Sites (Public, private, community-college)
N.C. Encyclopedia ("Overview of the people, government,
history & resources")
N.C. Home Page
N.C. Local
Government (Executive, Legislative & Judicial branches)
N.C. State
Government
Raleigh, N.C. Home Page
Research Triangle Park
University of North Carolina System
(Includes Board of Governors & Office of the President)
University of N.C. 16 Campuses
Project Gutenberg (Online, fulltext "great books," including the Bible,
Aesop's Fables, Moby Dick, etc.)
PublicRecordFinder.com
(source for free public information nationally)
SearchSystems.net (National
public records locator)
Sexoffender.com (Search national databases)
State Government
Websites
U.S. Government Links
Votebook (The
Herald-Sun site on area elections, sample ballots, etc.)
World-Institutions Links (OAS, UN, IMF, NAFTA,
etc.)
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