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- AHCJ: Association of Health Care Journalists Go-to place for health care journalism — and they’re great people, eager to help
- American Journalism Review A publication of the University of Maryland Foundation. Great resources for journalists, always great articles.
- Buzz Machine Jeff Jarvis’s blog: All the things he is, for better or worse
- Columbia Journalism Review Always an interesting place to spend some time
- Daring Fireball John Gruber is techy and cool and (sometimes) brutal. But he knows his stuff.
- How to Use a Semicolon you will laugh, you will learn
- Investigative Reporters and Editors Resources, job listings, scholarships, tips… and they’re right across the street from the Missourian!
- Jim Romenesko A blog about media and other things he’s interested in
- Journalism 2.0: A conversation about journalism and technology Mark Briggs, the guy who wrote the excellent textbook we use in this class, has a good blog, too.
- Media Matters Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
- MediaShift Your guide to the digital media revolution
- Missourian Multimedia Tumblr Have a look at what we’re doing
- News Lab An online resource and training center for journalists
- NICAR: The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting another great resource, right across the street.
- Nieman Journalism Lab So much good stuff here, you’ll just want to dive in and start looking around.
- OJR: The Online Journalism Review Interesting people on interesting subjects related to online journalism
- PolitiFact Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site that sorts the truth from the cr**.
- Poynter's MediaWire Media industry news and commentary
- Source Watch “Your guide to the names behind the news” — this is a place to check out an organization for agenda and, sometimes, funding.
- Stuff Journalists Like Want a good laugh? Read this.
- Talking Points Memo Eclectic, habit-forming and hilarious
- TechCrunch “a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies”
- The Lede Blogging the news with Robert Mackey (a NY Times blog)
- The Open Notebook Awesome site for anyone interested in the process of in-depth, authoritative science journalism
- WordPress.com
Course documents
- Chip Scanlan on Nut Grafs Chip Scanlan, a great writing coach formerly of the Poynter Institute, talks about nut grafs.
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Start with what you notice
Bet you’ve asked yourself this question at least once: Where do great stories come from? There are quite a few answers to that question. Thinking back on the work that makes me most proud, I can cite a wide variety … Continue reading
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Nice to meet you!
Welcome to the reporting class. I know you’re probably feeling some anxiety about this whole thing — that’s totally normal, and don’t be fooled by that person sitting near you during orientation today who looked so calm: Everybody’s nervous. It … Continue reading
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