September 11 Resources

• www.journaliststoolbox.com: A large section is available for people researching 9/11 anniversary stories, as well as some original content: a first-person account on the WTC collapses and a piece on how a mother helped her young sons deal with the tragedy. The stories are available for publication free of charge, but you must first contact Allison Salerno at absalerno@hotmail.com.
  
• September 11th Resources: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/911/ This page is a collection of resources related to the events of September 11, 2001, as complied by Jessica Baumgart, Jennifer Jack, and other contributors.
  
• IRE (http://www.ire.org):The IRE Resource Center have updated the September 11 Related Weblinks page at http://www.ire.org/related/weblinksubject.html More Web sites will be added to this page as well as more stories to the related stories page at http://www.ire.org/related/storiessubject.html and the related tipsheets page at http://www.ire.org/related/tipsheetssubject.html
  There is also a new beat page, Homeland Security, available on the IRE Beat Pages at http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/initial-search-beat.html
  
• "62 Days from Ground Zero," produced by the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y. The site won NAA's "most innovative use of digital media: news event coverage," 75,000-250,000 circulation (http://www.recordonline.com/adis/62/index.htm)
  
• The Poynter Institute: http://poynter.org/ PDF gallery of newspapers from September 11 at:
  http://63.208.24.134/
  
• The American Press Institute: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org Managing and Reporting a News Crisis
  
• NewsPlace.org (http://NewsPlace.org) - a special backgrounder on Sept. 11, with an emphasis on effects of the aftermath, sources about terrorism, reflective essays that help with understanding, ways to cope, and issues of reporting the news.
  

• FACSNET (http://facsnet.org): A focused set of online resources. The special resources content focuses on terrorism and national security, engineering, risk and safety, cultural and religious dimensions, law, and the economy.

• ACES: (http://www.copydesk.org/) Terror coverage: terror-related links copy editors and others handling terror-related stories may find useful: (http://www.copydesk.org/911.htm)
  
• The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: www.istss.org/
  The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation: www.icisf.org/ Two excellent sites for journalists to check out, both in terms of our own mental health and in terms of resources for our reporting.
• Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (http://www.dartcenter.org/groundzero/) Stories from Ground Zero - interviews with journalists in New York City and Washington about their experiences on Sept. 11.
  
• National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (http://www.ncptsd.org/) An authoritative source of information on PTSD, with over a hundred fact sheets and a wealth of published articles, videos, and information for researchers and clinicians.
  
• NewsLab (http://www.newslab.org/): Info on disaster planning, reaction stories, covering economic fallout stories, coping with trauma, etc.
  
• Attack on America in Context -- LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com/resources/): Relevant content from its deep archive of news, legal, legislative, and business information. These resources are being made freely available and will be of use to some journalists and to anyone who wants context and background.
  
• lexisone: Page containing links related to the terror attack. http://www.lexisone.com/news/nlibrary/b091201g.html
  
• Resources for Journalists: (http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/weblinks/) Links to resources provided by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
  
• WTC/Pentagon Attack Web Resources: (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/news/2001-09/wtc_resources.asp) Links to resources provided by The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
  
• mediachannel.org: World in crisis, media in conflict (http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/conflict)
  
• OZCAR: http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/ozguide/new.html#terror (links to sites)
  
• researchbuzz (http://www.researchbuzz.com/911.html) Links to useful resources about the events of Sept. 11.
  
• Map of the area of destruction around the Word Trade Centre or the utilities cut off:
  Destruction: http://www.nyc.gov/html/em/access.html
  Utility outages: http://www.nyc.gov/html/em/util_out.html
  (If those links doesn't work, just drop everything after "gov" and browse around.)
  
• The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), a California-based non-profit organization that is working to archive important portions of the Internet, launched a website dedicated to a complete record, in television video and otherwise, of the coverage of the events of September 11.
  The television portion, featuring video captured from over 20 different television networks around the world, can be found at:
  http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/index.html
  
• Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center.  A non-profit organization specializing in spreading awareness about mesothelioma and other asbestos related ailments. The site has 9/11 specific information. 
  
• The Mesothelioma Cancer Center was created in 1995 to warn people about the dangers of asbestos exposure. The site includes an entire section on 9/11 and the World Trade Center.
  
• Mesothelioma News Helpful information for people with mesothelioma.
  
• Mesothelioma Web Information about mesothelioma.