Key sites

Information on key Web sites

Keysites:

The following URLs take you to extensive collections of online and print news stories, many in the analytic or commentary category.  Lucianne leans heavily to the conservative Republican wing.  Both sites also have extensive listings of columnists. Last link check: 13Feb2009.

Lucianne.com

Newsmax.com

"If your mother says she loves         you, check it out." -- Advice of the Chicago City News Bureau.

Top Tools for Journalists:

An outstanding reference tool for working journalists is Bill Dedman's Power Reporting site.  Dedman, who won a Pulitzer for his work with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was a consultant and investigative reporter for The Boston Globe who also spends time as a teacher-trainer in CAR (computer-assisted reporting).  He is now an investigative reporter for MSNBC.  His site is one of journalism's most powerful tools on the Web that focusses on leading reporters and researchers to where they can find information.

Finding Online Newspapers:

I've tried to list and annotate several newspapers under Major News Sites (see link on left), but the task is daunting, and my effort is not always up to date or thorough so there's a good chance I've not yet listed someone's favorite newspaper. To find a newspaper online, try one of the following listings:

Columbia Journalism Review

It covers many weeklies and non-daily publications, and even lists newspapers that remain without a URL address.

Editor and Publisher

E&P publishes an annual directory of interactive products and services that lists by state "newspaper services on the internet."
This site is its "Media Links" to most newspapers, magazines, syndicates, etc., with pages online.

AP's network of newspapers

Provides a clickable map of all its member newspapers in the country.

Gebbie List

Newspaperlinks

This site is searchable by state and city.

American Journalism Review (AJR)

This site claims the largest listing; over 3,600 newspapers. Lots of other good features for journalists at this site. Some of the best reporting and commentary on journalism shows up here. 

AJR also provides a fine listing of major magazines.

N-net for newspapers

More for techies than for working journalists.

Internet Public Library

A good listing of newspapers, including many college publications.
Also check out the site's ready reference.


Kidon Media Links

This may be the most thorough listing of newspapers on the WWW.
Go to the state and find an almost complete listing. A nice feature is the inclusion of the city even where the city's name is not part of the newspaper's title.

Newspaperonline

An Australian site that lists by country, and includes a quick jump to U.S. newspapers in an alphabetical listing.

US Newspapers on the Web

A graphic list of newspapers that archive electronically. Largely the work of students at George Washington University and a guiding journalist at The Washington Post.  Now is run by a compiler at the Durham Sun in North Carolina.

Something for Fun:

Comics and Cartoons

One place that provides a daily look at selected comics is Arizona's pioneering StarNet.

The comic strip of the cyberage, Dilbert, is now a full-fledged consumer industry and television show. Other comic strips are promoted at this home site of United Press Service.

Here are some addresses that promote the nation's cartoonists:

The Cartoon Web
Cartoon Bank
Toonville
Cagle's Art Page

For a fine listing of representative editorial cartoonists, 

visit the New York Times' Editorial and Op-Ed pages online 

at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html

Fun isn't just in the comics:

The Onion

• Basically a spoof of online and off-line news. Not for the young and easily offended. It gets a PG-13 -- nearly an R-rating -- for its explicit language and its often violent syntax and content.   

Some Special Places to Search:

Government Web Sites

Many government web sites are little more than PR brochures, but some, such as the Census Bureauand the SEC, are treasure troves of information. Perhaps the best jumping-off spot is a collection of search tools at "Government by Sterby."

Quick References:

The WWW is becoming a reference force. Several quick and clever tools are available and more are probably hiding in the WWWeeds. One of the best I've used is called Research It!

Stock Exchange and Business News

For news about stocks and bonds, check the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Of course, NASDAQ and Amex have merged, but they maintain separate, united sites.

Another good source that won't drown one in the trivia of market and investments is CBSMarketwatch.

A quick take on the commodities markets as well as the stock closings is available on one page at Reuters Commodities.

For Wall Street junkies, nothing will satisfy like the online publication TheStreet.com.

The most fun can be had visiting The Motley Fool.  I love their irreverent approach, and they are one of the few financial Web sites with information for younger (including teenagers) investors.

That said, perhaps the best source for getting world-wide business news is at Bloomberg Business News.

 

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