Research Guides: Journalism: Internet resources

Internet resource(s) for Journalism

There are many online resources available to help journalists do their jobs. Below is a short list of some of those resources.

American Journalism Project
They make grants to nonprofit news organizations, partner with communities to launch new organizations, and coach leaders as they grow and sustain their newsrooms. ...
American Press Institute
Newspaper publishers founded this institute in 1946. Its mission is the training and improvement of the new industry and journalism educators. Another aim is to help news media, especially local publishers and newspaper media, advance in the digital age. The research areas may prove helpful for students completing assignments.
Asian American Journalists Association
The Asian American Journalists Association is a membership nonprofit advancing diversity in newsrooms, and ensuring fair and accurate coverage of communities of color. ...
Beat the Press
Emily Rooney moderated a lively discussion examining the media and how news organizations covered the week's big stories.
Beat the Press Podcast
Beat the Press challenges the new norms of objectivity in journalism, political wokeness and boundaries of opinion. Each show takes the listener behind the scenes of the world's biggest and most influential media outlets, featuring journalists making a difference, a tenured panel of media critics and absurd and unusual moments that capture the public's opinion. ...
Center for International Media Assistance
The term “media development” refers to evolution and change in the fields of news media and communications. This evolution can be stimulated by donor support, private investment, or indigenous processes of change led by media owners, managers, journalists, or other players such as media industry associations, or other collective efforts.
Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA)
The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media.
The Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
This organization calls itself "watchdog journalism in public interest." It covers stories the mainstream press does not.
Committee of Concerned Journalists
The Committee of Concerned Journalists is a consortium of journalists, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession. To secure journalism's future, the group believes that journalists from all media, geography, rank and generation must be clear about what sets our profession apart from other endeavors. To accomplish this, the group is creating a national conversation among journalists about principles.
Committee to Project Journalists
CPJ promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. CPJ ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are attacked, imprisoned, killed, kidnapped, threatened, censored, or harassed.
Cyberjournalist.org.in
This site features journalists who focus on writing their stories for the Internet and new media.
Dart Center of Journalism & Trauma
This site calls itself a global resource for reporters and photographers who cover violence. They advocate for thorough and sensitive reporting; they want to educate working journalists about the psychology of trauma;...
Fact-Checking from the Duke Reporters' Lab
The Reporters’ Lab explores new forms of journalism, including fact-checking, which is growing around the world, empowering democracies and holding governments accountable, and structured journalism, which creates new forms of storytelling and beat reporting.
FactCheck.org
They are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor 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. Their goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
Fake news
A research guide from Harvard Libraries on how to spot fake news.
Freepress
The Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications. [Web site]
Indian Country Today
Indian Country Today is a nonprofit, multimedia news enterprise. Their digital platform covers the Indigenous world, including American Indians and Alaska Natives. Indian Country Today is also a public media broadcast carried via public television stations, including FNX: First Nations Experience and Arizona PBS World channel.
Indianz.com
Their mission is to provide readers with quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective. [Web site] Also see KNBA.
Journalist's Resource
This resource is based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Their philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims.
Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education has helped the nation's news media reflect America's diversity in staffing, content and business operations. Through its professional development programs, the institute prepares managers for careers in both business -- and news -- sides of the journalism industry.
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides quality programs and services to and advocates on behalf of Black journalists worldwide. ...
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is dedicated to the recognition and professional advancement of Hispanics in the news industry. ...
Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
NAJA serves and empowers Native journalists through programs and actions designed to enrich journalism and promote Native cultures. NAJA recognizes Native Americans as distinct peoples based on tradition and culture. In this spirit, NAJA educates and unifies its membership through journalism programs that promote diversity and defends challenges to free press, speech and expression. ...
New Hampshire Bulletin
On the Media (NPR)
From the National Public Radio (NPR), the show “On The Media” takes a clear-eyed look at all media, public radio included.
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to trying to understand the information revolution. They specialize in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis. We are non partisan, non ideological and non political. This site also includes editions of State of the News Media, an annual assessment of how Americans get their news.
Their goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media are changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. They have emphasized empirical research in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism, is a better approach to understanding.
PolitiFact
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.
Poynter
The Poynter Institute is a global leader in journalism. They teach those who manage, edit, produce, program, report, write, blog, photograph and design, whether they belong to news organizations or work as independent entrepreneurs.
ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Snopes
The Snopes.com web site was founded by David Mikkelson, a project begun in 1994 as an expression of his interest in researching urban legends that has since grown into the oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet, one widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and laypersons alike as one of the world’s essential resources.
The state of the news media: an annual report on American journalism
This report is intended to provide a comprehensive look each year at the state of American journalism. Combines original research and aggregated data on each of the major journalism sectors. Allows users to customize their own statistical charts.
Statistics help for journalists
A simple guide to understanding basic statistics, for journalists and other writers who might not know math.
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)
The mission of the new organisation is simple: “To be the indispensable partner of newspapers and the entire news publishing industry worldwide, particularly our members, in the defense and promotion of press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses and technology.”
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, or WAN-IFRA, is the global organisation of the world’s press, representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.