Archive
15 Jul

Reporters’ guide for Beijing Olympics

Human Rights Watch, with the support of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a pocket guide for journalists planning to cover the upcoming Beijing Olympics. According to the […]

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17 Jun

20 questions about polls

The American National Council on Public Polls has a piece on its website that looks like a worthwhile read: 20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results. Hat tip […]

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12 May

Helping Canadian journalists dig deeper

Practising reporters and students of journalism have a new guide through the complexities of investigative reporting in Canada. Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide is the work of Robert […]

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12 May

Interviewing tips from the Media Diversity Institute

The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) has prepared these tip sheets for interviews that require extra care on the part of a journalist. The three links below provide useful help and […]

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12 May

Online Journalism Review

Published by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, the Online Journalism Review provides commentary, features and resources on a wide range of topics relating to online journalism. […]

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12 May

Getting more out of Google

By Robert Ortega How often do you start a search by looking on Google? Yeah, I do that more often than I’d like to admit, too. But even if you […]

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8 May

Pathfinders

What is a pathfinder, you might ask? A pathfinder is a specialized resource guide that gathers together, organizes, and annotates links to information about a specific topic such as immigration […]

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12 Mar

Agricultural Journalism in J-Topics

If you’re looking for discussion and commentary on agricultural journalism issues, please visit our Agricultural Journalism J-Topic, edited by journalists at Better Farming Magazine.

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12 Mar

Statistical resources on the web

<p>This resource, created by the University of Michigan Library Document Center, is <a href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an invaluable tool</a> for tracking down freely available statistics on the web. Although the resources listed are mostly focused on the United States, the site also provides links to international statistical sources. The site is organized into broad categories including: Agriculture, Health, Cost of Living, Foreign Governments, etc... There is also a search function.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Updated August 20, 2012</strong>:</p>

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10 Mar

Improving accuracy: creating a newsroom system

Eduardo Lorea describes how eight newspapers in southern Brazil are working to identify and avoid their most common errors, using a common process and database application.

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