 | Power Reporting
Resources for Journalists with thousands of free
research resources for journalists, annotated and updated daily: find people
and companies, check facts, find data for your beat, try new search tools,
subscribe to news alerts. |
| 1stNews Headlines:
News
From 104 Newspaper, Broadcast & Online News Sources |
| Electric
Library Search newspapers (including AJC), magazines, etc. all at once. Includes
more than 7 million full-text articles from magazines, newspapers,
newswires, journals, reference books, company information, plus television,
radio & government transcripts. Documents you retrieve can be printed or
saved. |
| Junk Science:
Debunks faulty scientific data and analysis used to used to further a
special agenda. |
| Story Ideas for
Environmental, Science and Health Journalists (Society of
Environmental Journalists) |
| Historical
Text Archive |
| Internet
Translator: can translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire
web pages. |
| Direct
Search "is a growing compilation of DIRECT LINKS to the
search interfaces of resources that are not easily searchable from
general search tools such as Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general
search tools are essential for information retrieval of Internet materials
many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not
searchable via these tools." |
| Percent
Change Calculator Easy way to make sure you get this correct in
your stories. Enter the starting and ending numbers, it tells you the
percent change. |
| Speech
and Transcript Center has transcripts and audio of speeches from
government (US and International) and business leaders, television and Radio
programs, professional organizations, and historical speeches. |
| What Is?: Find
out what technical terms mean. |
| Consumer
Links |
| World News Forecast:
Foreign News for the next month |
| allexperts.com:
Allexperts has volunteer experts in nearly every category ready,
willing, and able to answer your questions |
| National
Academy Press Reading Room:You can cruise the web for books and
read sample chapters plenty of places. But we're doing something a lot
different: full books, free for the reading, first page to last, and lots of
them. More than a thousand, actually. |
| ResoucePool:
Collection of Internet Resources categorized by
subject areas. |
| NHTSA
Automotive Recall Database |
| Online Almanacs |
| World
History On the Web |
| CityLink:
The Internet's most comprehensive listing of U.S. States and Cities
offering information on travel, tourism and relocation. |
| The
Reference Desk: Lots and lots of links. |
| The Internet
Newsroom |
| Using
Metasearch Engines (Dogpile, etc.) |
| Northern
Lights Search |
| Phone
Numbers and Addresses Look up by name, address, or phone
number! |
| Business and
Individual Phone Directory |
| Journalist's
Compass |
| Searchable
Databases Research almost anything! |
| Alta Vista,
free-text searching of the Web |
| Excite's concept
searching is highly effective |
| Northern Light categorizes
search results to help you focus |
| Hotbot, from
Hotwired and Inktomi, scored high in a recent study of completeness |
| search.com |
| Infoseek |
| Ask Jeeves searching
with a human touch |
| Ultimate
Bulletin Board actual humans answering questions from each other |
| Wired
Cybrarian Selected links, with descriptions, in two dozen
categories |
| ProFusion combines
major search engines and filters the results |
| Magellan
describes and rates Web resources |
| Looksmart searches
a selection of sites chosen by humans |
| The Mining Company
has humans who scour the Net and assemble mini-sites on a wide
variety of topics. |
| Britannica adds
human judgment to searching |
| Reference.com searches
and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups |
| ForumOne One-stop
guide to forum topics around the Web |
| Dejanews lets
you search for Usenet postings or posters |
| C|Net combines
computer news, reviews, software and services. |
| Achoo and The
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related
sites |
| Gopher
Jewels an index of gopher sites (yes, they still exist) |
| Liszt and Tile.Net
will help you find Internet mailing lists |
