Resources for Journalism Students
SOURCES SELECT® Links and Resources

• AcademicInfo
  An online education resource centre with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).
• Advocacy Journalism
  A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
• An alternative media list
  A selective list of English-language alternative media.
• Citizen journalism
  
• Civic Journalism
  
• CMS Crib Sheet
  The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) is the standard reference to American English usage. This is a quick guide to the manual.
• Community Journalism
  
• Copy editing
  
• Dean's Digital World Articles
  List of Dean's Digital World articles.
• Editing
  
• Environmental journalism
  The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
• Freedom of information
  
• Guide to writing better articles
  A guide to writing better articles.
• The History of Writing
  The history of writing from the Neolithic to present day. From Wikipedia.
• Interview
  
• Investigative journalism
  
• Journalism scandals
  
• Journalist
  
• Mass media
  
• Newspaper
  
• Newsroom
  
• Reporter
  
• Sources Select Resources
  Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
• Types of Journalism
  
• What Makes a Good Story?
  What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.

Related Links

• Agreements for freelancers
  
• Anti-intellectualism
  The hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science.
• Chicago Manual of Style Crib Sheet
  
• Chicago-Turabian Style Quick Reference
  Shows how the various pages--title page, first text page, text page with a table and figure, and bibliography--should look.
• Citizens' Bill of Journalism Rights
  An article that attempts to define the common principles of the profession. What journalists should offer and citizens should expect.
• A Crisis by Any Other Name
  The role of communications in a crisis.
• Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
  
• Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
  Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
• Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
  
• Dr. Abel Scribe's Guide to Chicago-Turabian Style and Documentation
  Guides to Chicago style specifically for research papers.
• A field guide to critical thinking
  
• The Follow-Up Telephone Call
  Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
• Hasbara
  Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
  
• A historical look at a sad decline (book review)
  
• Hushmail
  Confidential email service based in Canada
• I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
  
• An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
  Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
• Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
  What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
• National Campus and Community Radio Association
  Non-profit national association of organizations and individuals committed to volunteer-based, community-oriented radio broadcasting.
• "Objectivity" and democracy are not compatible (book review)
  
• Reusing Wikipedia content
  There are many reusers of Wikipedia's content, and more are welcome. If you want to use Wikipedia's text materials in your own books/articles/web sites or other publications, you can generally do so, but you must comply with one of the licenses that Wikipedia's text is licensed under. Many of the media files on Wikipedia are also reusable. Each media file has its own licensing statement which must be verified, and reuse of any media file must comply with its licensing.
• The Sources HotLink
  A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
• Sources - Wikipedia's article on Sources
  Article about Sources in Wikipedia.
  
• The View from the Press Room
  How charities can sell their stories to the media.
• What Does a Reporter Want?
  What does a reporter what when they interview you?
• Why I Am Listed in Sources
  Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.