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UPDATED: May 07, 2008  Weekly E-Newsletter: Sign up for our weekly newsletter and get updates on new sites and other resources. Click here to send us an update or comment on the site! FEATURED SITES Information Design Patterns: A collection of more than 60 patterns that describe the functional aspects of graphic components. Great for developing infographics. LiveNewsCameras.com: More than 110 live streaming video channels from network affiliates around the world, as well as Sky News and the Pentagon Channel. Includes Twitter feed. Dietary Supplements Labels Database: Information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements. Everyzing: This search tool finds campaign-related audio/video. FedSpending.org: Track which companies receive federal grants and contracts. You can sort by state, district, agency, etc. Terrorism Knowledge Base: Search by group name, incident, leaders, members and cases. Omgili: Searches more than 100,000 message boards and forums.
Elections: Dozens of campaign coverage resources are available in the Election 2008 section. One example is Electoral-Vote.com, which tracks state polls and provides a graphic summary of the electoral vote outlook. Online Journalism: Journerdism.com is a collection of news, tools and links targeted to the online news industry. The site, which offers and RSS, is a good quick reference for industry trends. It's run by Will Sullivan, the award-winning Interactive Director of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Spring Weather Resources: The Weather section features several online storm trackers and background on severe weather trends and history. One helpful site is GuiWeather, which uses Google Earth to map and track storm warnings. Gas Prices: If you are doing stories on gas prices, there are several helpful tools for tracking prices nationwide in the Toolbox's Business section. Journalism Blogs: Find links to journalism and industry news blogs on this new page. Related Resources: Search Engines-Blog Search Tools and News Industry. Stock Markets: Use tools in the Business Resources section to track the daily changes in the markets. Daily News Coverage: Newser.com operates as a news aggregator but with a human touch. It publishes more than 60 written new summaries each day, written and framed by the sites editors, which differentiate it from aggregators such as Google and MyYahoo. It includes top stories of the day and pieces from free-lancers around the world, and links to various news sources. Grocery Prices: The Grocery Game.com tracks prices of more than 10,000 grocery items. It's a great site for cost comparison studies over time. Find more helpful resources in the Business, and the Food and Cooking sections. Search Tools: BookTV.org isa a very handy search engine that allows you to locate video interviews with non-fiction book editors. Legal Resources: The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism developed a beat guide for courts and law coverage on its website. Simply go to the website and page click on "Learn More" on the "New Resource" box. The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law Directory allows you to search legal documents, court cases, reports, and other civil society resources from countries around the world. ICNL's Online Library currently contains 2,300 resources from 144 countries in 37 languages. Writing With Numbers: The tool Weird Converter is great for analyzing numbers and coming up with odd facts and figures for stories. It's great for comparing sizes, weights and gives the reader some perspective. Find more resources in the Toolbox's Writing With Numbers section. Iraq Military Casualties: Washington Post: Faces of the Fallen is a database of U.S. military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. CNN has an Iraq Casualties Page that's helpful for tracking current stories and updates. The Icasualties site tracks all of the Coalition casualties. Also, Obleek.com has a helpful Iraq casualties map that generates all casualties back to start of the war. Sort casualties by country's military or by location in Iraq. PBS Frontline has a site on Private Companies That Make America's War in Iraq Run. Also find several new resources in the Iraq and Military sections. 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: Research and background stories in the Toolbox's archived 9/11 Terrorist Attacks section. It includes pages on Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism and the Taliban, Airline Safety, Dealing with the Trauma, other 9/11 Anniversary Archives and media coverage. Also, use the databases in the Expert Sources section for additional background. Covering People With Disabilities: You'll find hundreds of resources on the People with Disabilities page. Free Speech/First Amendment: Check out the 2005 State of the First Amendment Survey. We've added new resources to the Free Speech/First Amendment page. Jobs: The Toolbox's Jobs section features dozens of journalism job databases and search resources. They're organized by news, sports, photography, PR, etc. Also, use the Cover Letters and Resumes section for expert tips on how to develop a job packet. Just for Fun: Check out the Cool Sites page for funny, offbeat web tools. The Strange News archive shows that fact truly is stranger than fiction. Teaching Tools: Many of you who use this site train your newsrooms and classrooms how to do online research: College Media, High School Journalism, Print Design, Broadcasting, Ethics, Writing, Reporting Techniques, Writing with Numbers, Photojournalism and Copy Editing. Reporting Tools: Reporting Techniques, Phone/E-Mail/Maps Directories, Search Engines, Expert Sources, Investigative, Form 990s, Public Records, Ethics, Check Domain Names, General Research and Writing With Numbers. Editing and Fact-Checking Resources: The American Copy Editing Society has assembled a collection of 49 online quizzes about everything from AP Style and usage to Iraq and the Middle East. Related Resources: Copy Editing, General Research, History, Domain Sites and Writing With Numbers. Writing with Statistics: Test your skills with IRE's interactive math quiz. After you've taken the test, click on the link at the bottom of the page to find out how to arrive at the correct answers. You'll find more resources like this one on the Writing with Numbers page. Related Resources: Spreadsheets, Business, Finance and Federal Government Census Data. Student Resources: College and high school students will find many helpful Toolbox resources for researching papers, reporting and more: Reporting Techniques, Public Records, History, Ethics and Copy Editing. |
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