General journalism links that may be helpful to you as a reporter. Back to Reporting Links Journalism Resources Newsthinking [http://www.newsthinking.com/] Bob Baker's "Newsthinking". Journalist's Toolbox [http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/] Mike Reilley's "Journalist's Toolbox". How I did the story [http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/bob/essay.html] A terrific "how I did the story" essay by Ken Fuson (with links to the terrific series). Power Reporting [http://www.powerreporting.com/] is Bill Dedman's Web site, and one of the most comprehensive and helpful I've seen for journalists. If you're looking for help with investigative reporting, or almost any journalistic endeavor, you'll find help here. If you haven't heard Eric Nalder of the Seattle Times talk about "Loosening Lips: The Art of the Interview," [http://www.bccc.com/TruNorth/journ/looselips.html] or "Breaking and Entering: How to Dissect and Organization" [http://www.spacelab.net/~padraic/breaking.htm] read his handouts online. NewsCollege A collection of simple, useful and practical journalism tips. Joe Grimm's "Jobs Page" [http://www.freep.com/jobspage/] at the Detroit Free Press provides a wealth of information helpful to journalists. These links provide valuable contacts and resources for you in working on stories: Beat Page (http://www.reporter.org/beat/] Foundation for American Communications [http://www.facsnet.org/] ProfNet [http://www.profnet.com/] These are general journalism organizations: Fund for Investigative Reporting and Editing (FIRE) [http://www.ncpress.net/] Newslab [http://www.newslab.org/] International Center for Journalists [http://www.icfj.org/] Center for Investigative Reporting [http://www.muckraker.org/] Fund for Investigative Journalism [http://www.fij.org/] Internet Newsroom [http://www.editors-service.com/] Investigative Reporters and Editors [http://www.ire.org/] National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) [http://www.nicar.org/] National Press Club [http://npc.press.org/] Pew Center for Civic Journalism [http://www.pewcenter.org/index.php3] Poynter Institute [http://www.poynter.org/] Reporter.Org [http://www.reporter.org/] Society for Professional Journalists [http://www.spj.org/] These are sites for editors: Edward Miller's "Reflections on Leadership" [http://newsroomleadership.com/Reflections/index.html] American Copy Editors Society [http://www.copydesk.org/] American Society of Newspaper Editors [http://www.asne.org/] Associated Press Managing Editors [http://www.apme.com/] The Slot [http://www.theslot.com/], a copy editing page operated by Bill Walsh of the Washington Post These are journalism groups organized by beat: Association of Health Care Journalists [http://www.ahcj.umn.edu/] Education Writers Association [http://www.ewa.org/] National Association of Science Writers [http://www.nasw.org/] Religion Newswriters Association [http://www.rna.org/] Science Journalism Center [http://science.jour.missouri.edu/] Society of American Business Editors and Writers [http://www.nasw.org/] Society of Environmental Journalists [http://www.sej.org/] These are demographic journalism organizations: Asian-American Journalists Association [http://www.aaja.org/] Journalism and Women Symposium [http://www.jaws.org] National Association of Black Journalists [http://www.nabj.org/] National Association of Hispanic Journalists [http://www.nahj.org/] National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association [http://www.nlgja.org/] Native American Journalists Association [http://www.naja.com/] These are places to find newspapers and newspaper stories online: Editor and Publisher's Web newspaper directory [http://emedia1.mediainfo.com/emedia/] Newspaper archives on the Web [http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html] Some pages of helpful journalism links: From the Virginia Commonwealth University library [http://saturn.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/library/library.html] Back to Reporting Links