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• INDIVIDUAL SITES OR GUIDES

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Some individuals have done masterful jobs in providing web references for journalists. (Many of the best watchers of journalism in the United States are located in other countries; I guess it is the "World Wide" Web.)

Some of these are valuable because the providers comment on or criticize the sites they list.

On the down side, many of these links languish or disappear quickly.

I try to keep up on them, but it's impossible, and I've attempted to note my successes and failures at locating these sites.  Some of these people are attempting to make a commercial go of their sites.  I'll add new sites and drop long dead ones as I can.

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From Nashville, Tenn.: Web Info Group:

Updated daily, according to its developer, Otis Herring.

The site contains a lengthy list of newspapers that are "commonly known and most trusted" in the nation.

Lots of idiosyncracies to this animated and graphically rich site, some good -- resources, joke-of-the-day -- some unfortunate -- "Babe of the Day."

From Robert Niles: Finding Data on the Internet: A Journalist's Guide: 
***** Top notch reference site.

• Niles, a Colorado researcher and web designer for the Rocky Mountain News, says "Simply reporting what someone said or did is no longer enough to ensure an information professional's career. Information professionals who wish to survive the Internet age must be able to synthesize and analyze words, deeds and data so that they can report to their readers and clients the reality of what is happening in their world today." Heady stuff, but absolutely correct.
• Niles site is filled with valuable tools for such information professionals. As an example, visit his "basic stuff" link.

From Sweden: Journalistic Resources Page:

http://www.it-kompetens.se/journ.html

• This site was built and is maintained by Nikos Markovits of Stockholm, Sweden. Markovits now calls it "The Journalistic Resources Page." It's great for international journalism and points to key sites in the U.S.A. as well.

From Canada: Megasources:

• A vast site maintained by Prof. Dean Tudor of the Journalism Dept. at Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnic University. A journalist could wander (not get lost) here for days. Tudor's list is heavy on Canadian resources, but is truly close to exhaustive. It also offers interesting search and bookmark links for journalists.

From Sheldon Gunaratne:  Internet Journalism Resources:

http://www.mnstate.edu/gunarat/ijr/

• Sheldon Gunaratne, a journalism professor at Minnesota State U. at Moorhead, maintains this superb and exhaustive list of journalism sites. It is especially good on International Journalism and on writing and editing tools. 

At Suite 101, Daryl Lease:

• Lease works at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune and keeps abreast of journalism for the Suite 101 Guide. Lease spends a lot of time around editorials so he's quite heads-up about what's going on in journalism.

From John Makulowich:

• John Makulowich is legendary on the Internet for his journalism resources site. There's a sense in which links here tend to curl back on each other, but it's a valuable hunting ground. Makulowich has taken his site beyond journalism and incorporated as The Writers Alliance, Inc..

From Matt Drudge:

• "The Drudge Report" has gotten gossiper Matt Drudge into lots of hot water and lots of publicity. A visit to his site reveals a journalist's online treasure house.
• Even if one never reads "The Drudge Report," one will find the site worth visiting.

From Virginia's Norfolk State U., Steve Opfer:  Who What When Where Why How:

• Steve Opfer is an HTML guru and professor at Norfolk State University who spends lots of time doing Internet consultations. His site is one of the best comprehensive listings of journalism resources, provided you can forgive his golf and ice hockey biases.

From Kitty Bennett at the St. Petersburg Times -- sources and experts:

• This site aims at providing journalists contacts with experts and university researchers on manifold topics. Think of this as a directory of expertise.

From Jeff South at Virginia's Commonwealth University, The J-Files:

http://www.people.vcu.edu/%7Ejcsouth/index.htm

• Jeffrey South is working hard at this site to keep abreast of journalism references.

• Most journalism academic departments have a news link. This is just one example.
• One may have to do some navigating to get to journalism resources from here.

From Ken Sanes, Transparency:

• Touted as "A web site that tries to make things clear," this site out of Boston (a one-man show by simulation theorist Ken Sanes, as near as I can tell) covers a wide field with essays ranging from popular television to media criticism and lots in between.
• Appears aimed at teachers, but journalists should find food for thought here, though not all of it digestible.

From a writer at the NY Times (formerly of the Seattle Times): The Reporter's Desktop:

• Duff Wilson, a former writer for the Seattle Times and now an investigative journalist for The New York Times, touts journalism at "The Reporter's Desktop." A nice touch.
  

• This award-winning site apparently began as an internal resource for radio newspeople at CBC in Ottawa, but it has now become a major resource for journalists seeking information on the Internet.

• This is a weblog on investigative reporting and computer-assisted reporting.
• David Fallis, formerly a city editor for the Tulsa World and now with The Washington Post, has put together a list of valuable CAR sites. The list emerged as a result of Fallis's teaching of CAR at the University of Tulsa..   Fallis has a syllabus somewhere, but it can't currently be located on the Web.  Instead, his talents are often at work at this intriguing Washington Post site.

• Lasica writes for the Online Journalism Review and for the American Journalism Review. This is his collection of online resources for journalists. Spend some time and navigate to his collection of articles and essays.
• You can learn about Lasica simply by shortening this URL to www.jdlasica.com

From Mark McGee:
Mindspring, aka Earthlink, denies having such a site on its server (02/02/01)

• A good list of journalism resources, nicely categorized into publications, organizations, etc.
• Like one of those hidden Macintosh eggs, the site unveils an entire course on Christianity from a strongly conservative perspective if one clicks on Mark McGee's name at the bottom of his page.

From a business writer, William P. Barrett, Journalist:

With lots of writings to his credit, Barrett maintains a home page filled with usefull links.

A decade or more of his writings are at this site as well.

From Newfoundland, Canada, and John Gushue:

• I say this is from Newfoundland, but it's really from a seminar that Gushue gave at Memorial University in St. John's, Nfld.
• At any rate, it's a good introduction to finding things on the Internet from an editor at the St. John's newspaper, though it has not been updated since 1966.
• My ancestors were Newfoundlanders so this site has a place in my heart.

From Florida International University Student Resource Center:  "The Links Index":

• The title says it all.
• Some of the links are broken and outdated, but that's inevitable when one tries to be exhaustive.

From Geoff Rahal, a Journalism Student in Ontario.
URL not found at last check (02/02/01)

• Rahal has put together a classy site of resources for journalists that includes a long list of search engines and a fine collection of online newspapers, especially those in the Canadian provinces.
• His "backgrounding" should be especially valuable to Canadian investigative reporters.
• By the way, Geoff is a native Newfoundlander, so he like Gushue above, occupies a warm spot in my consciousness thanks to my ancestral bias.

From Quebec, Canada, Quebec Launchpad for Journalists:

Andy Riga, a business and technology columnist for the Montreal Gazette, maintains this site.

From the English Dept. at Montclair State U.:

• Grover Furr's pages leans a bit toward academic journalism and criticism, but it's a wonderful place to hunt down some obscure and valuable sites.
• You may have to hunt through his home page to find the journalism resources.

Thanks to Tom Mangan:

http://tommangan.net/printsthechaff/

• Mangan says he's given up trying to be the cataloger of links and newsies.
• If one visits his personal site, however, you'll see the links still sneak in.

• A nicely organized and graphically pleasing collection of journalism resources.
• Tonella recently won the SPJ award for the best journalism resource site on the Web.

Gonzo Journalism (or, more accurately, Gonzo journalist):

• A site that follows the career of and current events surrounding the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, who died in 2005. 
• There are numerous sites dedicated toThompson, including two at Wikipedia.
• I think this one may be the best without being inordinantly worshipful.