Broadcast & Journalism Links

Broadcast
Broadcast Education Association
http://www.beaweb.org
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/
National Association of Broadcasters
http://www.nab.org
Radio-Television News Directors Association
http://www.rtnda.org/
TV stations
http://www.parrotmedia.com/
WWW Virtual Library: Broadcasters
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html
 
Copyright Sources
Copyright Basics
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html
Copyright Crash Course
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top
Copyright & Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
The Copyright Web site
http://www.benedict.com/
United States Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
U.S. Copyright Office FAQ
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/faq.html

Government
American University's Campaign Finance Site: Complete state-
   by-state records of campaign finances for state and federal
   legislators
http://www1.soc.american.edu/campfin/
Fedworld: a searchable guide to federal governmental agencies,
   personnel and Government Internet servers
http://www.fedworld.gov/
Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/
THOMAS: Legislative Information
http://thomas.loc.gov/
U.S. Bureau of the Census
http://www.census.gov/
The Washington Post Federal Internet Guide: a well organized
   set of resources to federal agencies and documents, all in one
   convenient starting point.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/fedguide/fedguide.htm
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Journalism Organizations and Institutes
American Journalism Historians Association
http://ajhaonline.org/
The American Press Institute
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/news.cfm?id=47
American Society of Newspaper Editors
http://www.asne.org/
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication http://www.aejmc.org/
Asian American Journalists Association
http://www.aaja.org/
Center for Investigative Reporting
http://www.muckraker.org
Education Writers Association
http://www.ewa.org/
Freedom Forum
http://www.freedomforum.org/
Investigative Reporters & Editors (Includes a database of
    thousands of investigative stories)
http://www.ire.org/
Journalism - Annual Report on the State of the News Media
Journalism & Women Symposium
http://www.jaws.org/
The National Association of Black Journalists
http://www.nabj.org/
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
http://www.nahj.org
National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association
http://www.nlgja.org
The National Press Club
http://npc.press.org/
National Press Photographers' Association
http://metalab.unc.edu/nppa/
Native American Journalists Association
http://www.naja.com
Newspaper Association of America
http://www.naa.org
Poynter Institute for Media Studies
http://www.poynter.org/
Religion Newswriters' Association
http://www.religionwriters.com/
The Reporters' Committee on Freedom of the Press
http://www.rcfp.org/
Society of Environmental Journalists
http://www.sej.org
Society of Newspaper Design
http://www.snd.org/
Society of Professional Journalists
http://spj.org

Legal and Ethical Resources
Cyberspace Law Center
http://www.cli.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/
Ethics Cases Online: The University of Indiana School of
   Journalism's online ethics cases http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/
Ethics on the WWW, a comprehensive collection maintained by
   Professor Paul Lester at the University of California, Fullerton. http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/ethics/ethics_list.html FindLaw Index
http://www.findlaw.com/index.html
Freedom of Information Center
http://web.missouri.edu/~foiwww/
Journalism Ethics
http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/ethics.html
Journalism Ethics and Values in the New Media (from the Poynter
   Institute for Media Studies) http://www.poynter.org/Research/biblio/bib_me.htm
Libel and defamation (definitions for non-lawyers) http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/cyberspace/lessons/libe01.html The Student Press Law Center: legal advice for student
   journalists
http://www.splc.org/default.asp

Resources and Support for Journalists
American Journalism Review
http://www.ajr.org/
American Journalism Review Resources http://www.newslink.org/spec.html
College Media Advisers: the national support organization for
   advisers of college student media
http://www.collegemedia.org/
Columbia Scholastic Press Association: an organization providing
   support for college student journalists http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/
Editor and Publisher
http://www.mediainfo.com
Facsnet, an excellent resource for journalists http://www.facsnet.org/
The Journalist's Toolbox: A hodgepodge of resources for
   journalists
http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/
Megasources, a great resource by Dean Tudor at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto, Canada http://www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/megasources.htm
ProfNet (This is a service that will find academic experts in
   various fields to answer your questions -- for working
   journalists only.)
http://www.profnet.com
Research Connect is an integrated research database connecting
   the media with leading financial, political, technical, social,
   legal, medical, scientific, economic and business research. https://www.researchconnect.com/subscribe.asp

Journalism and mass communication journals
(Available EBSCO, Communication and Mass Media Complete)
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
Journalism & Communication Monographs
Journalism History
Mass Communication and Society
Communication Law and Policy
Journal of Advertising Education
Journal of Magazine and New Media Research
Newspaper Research Journal
Journal of Public Relations Research
International Communication Bulletin
Visual Communication Quarterly
Journalism History
Media History Monographs

Reporting, Writing and Copy Editing Resources
The American Copy Editors Society
http://www.copydesk.org/
American Journalism Review, another outstanding resource listing
   media sites, resources and articles.  Searchable. Fee for full-
   service subscription and some full text retrieval. http://www.ajr.org/
The Columbia Guide to Online Style http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Copyeditor: Good links for copy editors http://www.copyeditor.com/
Deadline Online.com, another outstanding collection of resources
   for journalists by Washington reporter Alan Schlein http://www.deadlineonline.com/
The Elements of Style: William Strunk's standard http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
The First Amendment Handbook: http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
Grammar Quiz: Are you grammatically incorrect? http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Quiz/Quiz.aspx?QuizID=51
The Journalist's Primer: The Minnesota Newspaper Foundation's online guide to journalism style and grammar http://www.papertrained.org/primer.html
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Missouri Digital News: From right here in the Show Me state!  No need to log on to retrieve information. http://www.mdn.org/index.htm
Modern Language Association (MLA) style
http://www.mla.org
Reporter.org, terrific resources for reporters including links by
   beat
http://www.reporter.org/beat
NewsDirectory: Formerly Ecola Newsstand.  Another excellent
   media link site.  Browse by subject or region. Searchable. http://www.newsd.com/
Omnivore: Excellent resource; extensive media links http://way.net/omnivore/
The Reporters' Network
http://www.reporters.net/
A Spelling Test: Can you spell, or do you rely too much on that
   MS Word dictionary (which really sucks, anyway)? http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html
World Wide Web Citation Formats: http://libweb.uncc.edu/reference/webcite.htm