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20 Nov

National Magazine Awards call for submissions

One sure sign of winter is the launch of the journalism awards season. This year’s call for NMA submissions opens Dec. 1, 2006 and ends Jan. 10, 2007. The submission […]

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17 Nov

Helen Allen dies

Veteran journalist Helen Allen, who became best known for her column Today’s Child, has died, the Toronto Star reports.

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17 Nov

<i>Reader’s Digest</i> sold for $1.6 billion

The Globe and Mail‘s Keith McArthur puts some faces and context to the whopping numbers behind the sale of the world’s best read magazine brand.

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16 Nov

FactCheck.org: monitoring U.S. politics

Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

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16 Nov

A worldwide listing of online newspapers and magazines

The database boasts 4,500 magazines and 3,000 newspapers and is compiled and maintained by Metagrid in Germany. Magazines are organized by subject, newspapers are organized by region and country. In […]

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16 Nov

Statistics resources for lawyers

This site offers articles, guides, teaching materials, an alert service and much more. Maintained by the law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, it provides materials for experienced researchers, […]

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16 Nov

Journalism.org Toolbox

The U.S. Based Project for Excellence in Journalism provides a section of their website devoted to Journalism Resources. The Journalism Tools section provides links to: “… ideas, strategies and techniques […]

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16 Nov

Researching people on the Internet: tips from the OJR

This two-part article by Paul Grabowicz is published by the Online Journalism Review. Part one focuses on using freely available public records databases on the web to find information about […]

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16 Nov

Fact checking and copy editing resource site

The School of Journalism and the Library at UNC Chapel Hill have compiled an incredible resource of advice, tips, and links for fact checking and copy editing. Includes a bibliography […]

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16 Nov

NICAR ‘Net Tour

Compiled by the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, this site provides tips and links for investigative reporters.

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