The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog puts photojournalism front and center. Instead of using images to illustrate a news article, the site makes photographs the main attraction, accompanied only by a brief caption.
a searchable, sortable, ongoing database of digital news outlets across the country. Contains original profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet. CJR plans to continuously add to the database. profiles will include national outlets, but the bulk of the database will eventually be made up of the many local operations..
MemeTracker builds maps of the daily news cycle by analyzing around 900,000 news stories and blog posts per day from 1 million online sources, ranging from mass media to personal blogs. We track the quotes and phrases that appear most frequently over time across this entire online news spectrum. This makes it possible to see how different stories compete for news and blog coverage each day, and how certain stories persist while others fade quickly.
Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999. draw out the real meaning behind green stories, connect big issues like climate change to daily life. users to bring stories through blogs, photos, At Grist, we take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Grist is based in Seattle, with contributors scattered the world 'round. a nonprofit organization funded by foundation grants, user contributions, and advertising.
a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, i
OpenCongress brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, public comments, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.
ACM has a new Web site to complement its flagship print publication Communications of the ACM. The Web site offers exclusive news, opinion, research, information, extensive content from the current issue of Communications, the complete archived issues of the publication, access to searchable content from the ACM Digital Library and from other sources around the Web, and hosts a blog section.
An online news source featuring the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more from North America's leading research universities.
Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies. From the same people who created Techmeme memeorandum, WeSmirch, and Ballbug.
The new TRC2 corpus comprises 1,800,370 news stories covering the period from 2008-01-01 00:00:03 to 2009-02-28 23:54:14 or 2,871,075,221 bytes, and is initially made available to participants of the blog track at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), to supplement the BLOG08 corpus (that contains results of a large blog crawl carried out at the University of Glasgow), which is the main corpus used at the TREC Blog Track.
GovTrackInsider.com complements GovTrack.us with original and syndicated reporting on what Congress is doing now, what is on its agenda, and what it all means. We've hired a small team of paid freelance reporters to cover congressional committee meetings. We'll also be including syndicated coverage of Congress from the OpenCongress blog, and other sources. Insider is an online newspaper, but one with some unusual pages. For articles on many topics you'll find on the right side a topic dashboard. There you can connect with other readers in a variety of ways.
iSolon.org's Citizens Assembly Project also reports on citizens assembly developments throughout the world. Reporting on such developments is a joint project with iSolon.org's readers. iSolon.org carefully monitors the print press and blogosphere for reports on citizen assemblies, but it also gets much of its most valuable information from its readers.
committed to providing stimulating, original content and presentation, with over 1,500,000 pages covering the vast ideological spectrums of space, science, health, and technology.
Dark Reading is a security dashboard for IT professionals who don’t have the time or the luxury of combing wirefeeds, multiple bug feeds, or vendor Websites to find out what’s new or how well it works.
popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.
publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes.
DealBook is a financial news service produced by The New York Times. It is published daily, Monday-Friday, except on U.S. Market holidays and during the last week of the year. features up-to-the-minute news and exclusives about Wall Street and corporate America. The continually updated report edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
business-to-business nexus of content, technology and business. the ContentAgenda.com community is comprised of leading executives from the media and entertainment, hardware, technology, government and policy making, financial and retail communities. Designed to be the one-stop source for the most up-to-date conversation and news, ContentAgenda.com features a comprehensive, global compendium of news reports on the home/personal entertainment industry powered by LexisNexis, the leading name in the information aggregation business, as well as user-configurable newsletters, RSS feeds, and whitepaper brokerage.
Capitol Hill Reports are time saving resources for any private or governmental organization following legislative developments on Capitol Hill, giving you only the most relevant and up-to-date information via concise and nonpartisan reports. With decades of legislative tracking and journalistic experience behind each report, we provide tailored updates on legislation that matter most to trade associations, law firms, and companies.
Techmeme arranges links from must-read stories in technology from hundreds of news sites and blogs into a single, easy-to-scan page. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our goal is for Techmeme to become your tech news site of record.
EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology.
global news focusing on countries south of the equator and "civil society." Stories produced by the IPS News Service and Columnist Service directly reach about 570 newspapers and magazines subscribers all over the world. The majority of IPS writers and editors come from the South, reporting from their own countries and regions or writing from the North, offering a different perspective on events and processes.
iWatch Newsdelivers original and exclusive stories as well as the best in investigative journalism from around the country - and the world. The publication focuses on money and politics; government waste, fraud and abuse; the environment; financial reform; health care; international investigations, national security; and state government accountability.
This entirely student-powered wire service generates stories from across the nation every day, including first-rate news, opinion, sports, and entertainment coverage.
We believe that a better news product can be made if it relies more on a visual approach to conveying information. The works of Edward Tufte provides both a key to the successful implementation of this concept as well as criticism of poor or misguided attempts at incorporating graphics in the news.
Automatically compiled digests of news stories (originally aggregated by the Google News). NewsFeed Researcher is an innovative information portal with a continuous automatic coverage of current news in the form of topics overviews. This is achieved by way of processing collections of numerous news stories published on the same topic. Published here are daily digests of major events in Business, Technology, U.S., World, Sports and Entertainment.
independent online newspaper. current events reporting and investigative journalism. emphasizes the public interest. operated as a nonhierarchical collective based on the principles of participatory economics. PeoplesNetWorks Collective
The Community Information Toolkit will help community leaders like you harness the power of information to advance their goals for a better community. It offers a process and a simple, easy-to-use set of tools to help you take stock of your community’s news and information flow and take action to improve it. The tools are forms and surveys and reports.
Climate Debate Daily is an independent website from Denis Dutton, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who founded and edits the well-known website, Arts & Letters Daily. Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of signficant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.
ContentNext Media is a media and information company owned by Guardian News and Media Limited. Based in New York City, the company covers the business of digital media, serving decision makers within the media, entertainment, publishing, advertising, marketing, and technology sectors. Founded by journalist Rafat Ali in 2002, the company's news sites chronicle the economic evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries. Our belief is that in the near future, all media will be digital media, and we are helping define sustainable business models and innovation within this sector.
designed to help library and information science professionals, information technologists, instructional technologists, and other academic technology support professionals
A Selection of Sources for Professional Reading in Social Science Data IASSIST Joanne Juhnke, Special Librarian Data & Program Library Service (DPLS) University of Wisconsin—Madison
nonprofit news service provides a wide range of tools that empower citizens to access quality news and information and learn to separate fact from fiction about important public issues. Promotes good journalism, news literacy and civic engagement Social news network features a daily feed of quality news and opinions from mainstream and independent sources, based on ratings from our reviewers. Review tools enable people to rate stories for accuracy, fairness, sourcing, context and other core journalistic principles. Truthsquad, a community fact-checking service. teacher guides and student guides.
social news network aimed at helping people identify quality journalism -- or "news you can trust." This free, not-for-profit service offers the most trusted news of the day, as selected by community members using state-of-the-art media literacy tools.