Resources from the classroom


The Web offers dozens upon dozens of sites that feature voluminous lists of resources for journalists. If you're like me, you've bookmarked dozens upon dozens of them--and promptly forgotten what the devil they listed that you found worthy of bookmarking in the first place.

When I'm in a hurry to find something, I often have trouble sorting through my bookmarks and remembering which Web site provided the listing or listings I'm seeking.

The trick, of course, is culling your bookmarks down to the most useful ones, then set up individual folders to separate the top five or ten and, perhaps, group the others by specialties. Although it's a time-consuming task, it'll pay off the next time you're in a hurry.

With that said, I'm about to complicate things further by offering up two more must-have bookmarks. They're two of the best university-produced lists of journalism resources I've seen, and they make excellent supplements to the lists of resources at old reliables like the Columbia Journalism Review (http://www.cjr.org/resources ) and the Poynter Institute (http://www.poynter.org ) .

Journalism and Mass Communication Resources http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalis...

Here you'll find more than 30 pages of annotated resources compiled by Karla Tonella, Internet and media consultant at the University of Iowa.

The usual items are found at this site -- well-prepared lists of newspapers, search engines, listservs, etc. -- but you'll also encounter specialized collections of resources I don't often see elsewhere. Among the categories here are "Journalism Teaching Resources on the Web," "Gender and Race in Mass Communication,'' and "Media Law Resources."

Tonella's award-winning site is designed in an easy-to-use manner. I'd recommend it for your folder of frequently-visited journalism bookmarks

Direct Search http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct...

I've mentioned this site before and listed it among the top five journalism Web sites. It's not as tailored to journalists as Tonella's site, but it's the most exhaustive list of databases, search engines and references I've seen. The site, compiled by Gary Price of George Washington University, offers information that other search engines won't generate.

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