Resources for Reporters and Editors

• The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - Bi-weekly column by Jakob Nielsen, former Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.  Highest Recommendation

• American Medical Association Doctor Finder - more than 650,000 licensed doctors. Search by name or broad medical specialty - must  know the state to find a physician.

• Biographical Dictionary - more than 22,000 people from past to present.

• Biography - searchable online database puts more than 20,000 of the greatest names, past and present, at your fingertips - from A&E Television Networks

• Congressional Research Service Reports 

• Dead People Server - by Laurie D. T. Mann

• Documents in the News - from the University of Michigan

• EDGAR Online - search by executive name in the records that all U.S. public companies are required to file with the SEC

• The Electronic Journalist - online service of the Society of Professional Journalists

• Forbes 500s lists

• FedSYS 

• Hoover's - company information, updated business headlines and other daily information

• JournalismNet: story topics and sources, by beat 

• Journalist's Toolbox

• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator - more than 900,000 lawyers and law firms in the U.S. and elsewhere

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

• Protest.Net - "lists progressive & leftist protests, meetings and conferences."

• Reporter's Resources - from the National Press Club Library

• SLA News Division - many useful links to articles, keyword collections, references typically used in news libraries, top Internet sites for journalists, and lists of journalism and library associations

• The Slot - copy editor site from Bill Walsh

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know - basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know. By Robert Niles.

• The United States Government Manual - from the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration. 

Past Events

• Today.html - from the Library of Congress

• Today in History - from the History Channel

• Today in History - list from Yahoo

News Librarian and News Library Sites

• Barbara's News Researchers Page - from Barbara Gellis Shapiro

• Librarian's Index to the Internet - from the California State Library  Recommended

• Providence (Rhode Island) Journal's News Department home page

• Special Libraries Association News Division Recommended

Books

"Incredible Comparisons" by Russell Ash and Richard Bonson, hardcover (DK Publishing, 1996). "Use this visual guide to help turn statistics into pictures: this surveys sizes, heights, speeds, and numbers using a fine cross-comparison visual approach which encourages kids to think about the realities of numbers. From animals to human creations, this is an unusual, involving oversized creation." --Midwest Book Review. "At last, a book that gives statistics a good name! This visual delight features gatefold artworks revealing what's big, bigger, and biggest (and fast, faster and fastest!)."

(Title descriptions are from Amazon.com unless otherwise indicated.)

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• The news business

• Politics and political news

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