Resources for Journalism Students
SOURCES SELECT® Links and Resources

• AcademicInfo
  An online education resource centre with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).
• Advocacy journalism
  A genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose.
• Alternative media
  Media (newspapers, radio, television, movies, Internet, etc.) which are alternatives to the business or government-owned mass media.
• Arts journalism
  
• Broadcast journalism
  
• Business journalism
  
• Citizen journalism
  
• Civic Journalism
  
• CMS Crib Sheet
  The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) is the standard reference to American English usage. This is a quick guide to the manual.
• Columnist
  
• Community journalism
  
• Copy editing
  
• Dean's Digital World Articles
  List of Dean's Digital World articles.
• Defamation
  
• Docufiction
  
• Editing
  
• Editorial independence
  
• Entertainment journalism
  
• Environmental journalism
  The collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact.
• Expert
  
• Fashion journalism
  
• Fourth Estate
  
• Freedom of information
  
• Freedom of the press
  
• Gonzo journalism
  
• Guide to writing better articles
  A guide to writing better articles.
• History of journalism
  
• The History of Writing
  The history of writing from the Neolithic to present day. From Wikipedia.
• Intern
  
• Interview
  
• Investigative journalism
  
• Journalism
  
• Journalism ethics and standards
  
• Journalism scandals
  
• Journalism school
  
• Journalism sourcing
  
• Journalist
  
• Mass media
  
• Media bias
  
• Media literacy
  
• Media studies
  
• Narrative journalism
  
• New Journalism
  
• News
  
• News agency
  
• News presenter
  
• News style
  
• News values
  
• Newspaper
  
• Newsroom
  
• Objectivity (journalism)
  
• Observation
  Observation is either an activity of a living being (such as a human), consisting of receiving knowledge of the outside world through the senses, or the recording of data using scientific instruments. The term may also refer to any datum collected during this activity.
• Online journalism
  
• Photographer
  
• Photojournalism
  
• Political journalism
  
• Printing
  
• Production management
  
• Propaganda model
  A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product — readers and audiences — to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
• Public relations
  
• Publicity
  
• Publishing
  
• Pundit (expert)
  
• Reportage
  
• Reporter
  
• Research
  
• Science journalism
  
• Sources Select Resources
  Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
• Sports journalism
  
• Traffic reporting
  
• Types of Journalism
  
• Visual journalism
  
• Watchdog journalism
  A type of investigative journalism. It refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life.
• Weather forecasting
  
• What Makes a Good Story?
  What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
• Yellow journalism
  

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• Agreements for freelancers
  
• Anti-intellectualism
  The hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science. As political adjective, Anti-intellectual describes an education system emphasising minimal academic accomplishment, and a government who formulate public policy without the advice of academics and their scholarship.
• Canadian content
  
• Chicago Manual of Style Crib Sheet
  
• Chicago-Turabian Style Quick Reference
  Shows how the various pages--title page, first text page, text page with a table and figure, and bibliography--should look.
• Citizens' Bill of Journalism Rights
  An article that attempts to define the common principles of the profession. What journalists should offer and citizens should expect.
• Connexions - Wikipedia's article on Connexions
  Article about Connexions Information Sharing Services in Wikipedia.
  
• A Crisis by Any Other Name
  The role of communications in a crisis.
• Critical thinking
  The purposeful and reflective judgement about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments.
• Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
  
• Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
  Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
• Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
  
• Dr. Abel Scribe's Guide to Chicago-Turabian Style and Documentation
  Guides to Chicago style specifically for research papers.
• A field guide to critical thinking
  
• The Follow-Up Telephone Call
  Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
• Hasbara
  Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
  
• A historical look at a sad decline (book review)
  
• Historical method
  The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
• I.F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah
  
• Informatics
  
• Information
  
• Information broker
  
• Information science
  
• Infotainment
  
• An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
  Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
• Library science
  
• Magazine
  
• Media of Canada
  
• Media relations
  
• Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
  What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
• National Campus and Community Radio Association
  Non-profit national association of organizations and individuals committed to volunteer-based, community-oriented radio broadcasting.
• "Objectivity" and democracy are not compatible (book review)
  
• Occam's razor
  
• Reusing Wikipedia content
  
• Scholarly method
  
• Scientific method
  Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning
• Scientific skepticism
  A practical, epistemological position in which one questions the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence.
• Social bookmarking
  
• The Sources HotLink
  A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
• Sources - Wikipedia's article on Sources
  Article about Sources in Wikipedia.
  
• The View from the Press Room
  How charities can sell their stories to the media.
• What Does a Reporter Want?
  What does a reporter what when they interview you?
• Why I Am Listed in Sources
  Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.