Yes, you read that right. FREE. To anyone with a valid .edu email address. More details here: http://www.nytimes.com/gst/ts_university_email_verify.html
Graduating students, sign up now, before your email address expires (though it’s possible that this may still work with your alumni email forwarding).
Hitting the streets of your beat for the first time? Make sure to head out there hungry - both for a great story and a great meal. Some of NYC’s best food never makes it into Zagat’s, so an essential website for learning about your neighborhood’s cuisine is Chowhound. Recently re-designed, Chowhound has discussion boards for food in all areas of New York City. Covering an area in Manhattan? Search the Manhattan board. Covering a beat that’s farther afield? Try the Outer Boroughs board.
Remember that resources like Chowhound thrive on user input, so once you’ve sampled the cuisine your beat has to offer, weigh in with your own comments!
The Katrina Files is the latest report from the
UCLA-based Center for Communications and Community. It includes critiques of Hurricane Katrina coverage, community and independent media, research reports on Katrina and its aftermath, and a section for the public to submit materials.
[Thanks to Prof. June Cross for suggesting this site!]
Check out Free Government Info.
This is a site (started by a few librarians) which tracks threats to government information’s freedom from “many economic and political forces,” and is also involved in raising public awareness about the importance of this type of information.
Facts of Life is a series of issue briefings for health reporters, brought to you by the Center for the Advancement of Health, a nonprofit which translates the latest evidence-based research on health, health care, prevention and chronic disease management for the general public.
The Basics: phone numbers & addresses
I wish I could tell you we had some super-duper special people-finder tools. But we don’t. Here are some decent free sites instead.
New Yorkers and where to find them
Looking for interesting New Yorkers to profile? Here are a few tips.
Finding experts
Preparing a Roundtable discussion? New York City is full of experts, but how to find them?
Consumer Watch
Bonus resources we talked about during the session:
AP Photo Archive
Archive.org - online archive of multimedia content
Free on the web, from LexisNexis (I repeat, this resource is free, not just for subscribers):
As the year winds down, the staff of LexisNexis News has compiled a unique perspective on the people and events that shaped the news this year, the 2005 Year in Review. Journey back to the actual day this year’s top national and international news events occurred. From front page stories to editorials, LexisNexis presents newspaper headlines and stories from around the U.S. and World - the day it happened.
Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t possibly bring you another cool and free thing, it’s Symbols.com - the Online Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms! You can search the site, browse by graphical element or word, or just look at a random symbol if you prefer…
Are you new to or interested in religion reporting? A great resource for keeping up with religion issues as they intersect with the news media is the magazine, Religion in the News, published by the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College (CT) You can link to full magazine archives from the main Center website.
Just a quick reminder here that the subject categories on this blog are designed with you in mind. If you’re interested in other posts on, say, religion reporting, just follow the link at the start of this post (or in the left-hand margin) and you’ll see them all…
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