Resources
The Web offers journalists ways to keep in touch with one another, with industry issues and with communications events around the nation. We also can use the Web to find information to support out work and to link to others in our professions. Here are some useful sites. Please e-mail Webmaster to offer your own favorite links to add to this page.
Articles
Professional organizations
- National Federation of Press Women
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Indiana SPJ
- Public Relations Society of America
- Indiana Collegiate Press
- Hoosier State Press Association
- ASNE High School Journalism Web site
- High School Journalism Institute at Indiana University
- American Society of Newspaper Editors
- National Press Photographers Association
Other NFPW affiliates
- Alaska Press Women
- Arizona Press Women
- Arkansas Press Women
- Colorado Press Women
- Delaware Press Association
- Idaho Press Women
- Kansas Professional Communicators
- Nebraska Press Women
- North Dakota Professional Communicators
- Virginia Press Women
Journalism Web sites
- The Poynter Center
- American Journalism Review
- Center for Media and Public Affairs
- Citizen Access Project
- Editor & Publisher
Starting places on the Web
- Inspire, database for Indiana residents
- Here are tips and tools to better use search engines, specifically Google
- Internet Public Library, organized by topic
- Newswise: Search tools for reporters
- Verify information: ways to check if the info you are using is accurate
- Searching blogs: Search engines, advice
Reporting resources
- IRE's Beat Source Guide, a good resource for getting started.
- NewsLab offers Better Beat Reporting, as well as other self-help info for journalists
- The Working Reporter, full-service resource to searches, media, reference
- A Journalist's Guide to the Internet, quick links to all kinds of reference materials
- Power Reporting, "computer assisted journalism."
- Internet News Bureau, search online news archives
- JournalistExpress, quick links to dozens of media organizations
- Reporter's Desktop, search engines, reference links and news links all on one page
- Guide to investigative journalism from the PBS series, America's Investigative Reports
- Reporter.org's links to news sources and to trade or specialty publications
- Web Sites for Journalists
What Web resources do you use?
Contribute to this list by e-mailing your favorite resources to Webmaster@wpcindiana.org.
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