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OnlineNewspapers.com
 A directory of around 10,000 newspapers available online.

The Internet Public Library Online Newspapers - (dead link)

[AIDS] The EU-India Media Initiative on HIV/AIDS

  • Media Manual 2007 on HIV/AIDS
    "Too often, reporters shy away from covering HIV/AIDS because they aren't adequately prepared. Admittedly, the subject can be intimidating - it seems to consist of abstruse technicalities enveloped in an environment of fear, prejudice, denial, cultural issues and even political considerations. The issues are many and, of course, sensitivities are high. This Media Manual intends to demystify the subject, set out a road map for the uninitiated reporter and provide fresh inputs to those already covering HIV/AIDS."

American Communication Journal
"...the premier online scholarly refereed journal dedicated to the study of communication."

American Journalism Review : AJR

American Leaders Speak
Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
The Nation's Forum Collection
"...consists of fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing. Speeches range from one to five minutes."
American Memory, Library of Congress

American Museum of the Moving Image

Arabic2000.com. Arabic Web index. Arabic Newspapers and Magazines

Archival Survival: The Fundamentals of Using Film Archives and Stock Footage Libraries
By Rick Prelinger

AlterNet.org
"...AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.

Breaking Away:  Mexico's Press Challenges the Status Quo

Brookings Institution

Canadian War Museum

CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Centre] Archives
Relive our History through CBC Radio and Television
"On this Web site you'll find a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Some of these files have rested quietly at the bottom of our vaults for more than 60 years and are, for the first time, now accessible to the general public."
Sections include: People ; Conflict & War ; Arts & Entertainment ; Politics & Economy ; Life & Society ; Disasters & Tragedies ; Science & Technology ; Sports.

The Christian Science Monitor

CNN Interactive

Columbia Journalism Review

Directorio Mundial de Periódicos en Español
 World-wide directory of newspapers in Spanish

EJC-REC: The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication

The Electronic Encyclopedia of Communication

Electronic Telegraph (London)

EurekAlert
"...a comprehensive Web site about the latest research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology."
By American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Facts for Features, Census Bureau Fact Sheets
"Each Facts for Features consists of a collection of statistics pertinent to a particular holiday or special observance; they serve as background for reporters who write or broadcast feature stories. The data are gleaned from demographic and economic subject areas across the Census Bureau."

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements
Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives
"...presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

George Washington University - The National Security Archive

The Great Debate & Beyond : The History of Televised Presidential Debates
1960-1996
A wonderful multimedia presentation from "The Great Debate" between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 through the 1996 debate between Bush and Clinton.
Includes Curriculum Resources.

HistoricalVoices.org
"The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics."
- Part of the Digital Library Initiative II

HOLOCAUST: The Untold Story
"...Although major American newspapers had been receiving reports of the mass extermination of Jews in Europe, the stories rarely reached the front pages, except in the Jewish press. Could a more aggressive press in the United States during World War II have saved lives? This exhibit dispels the myth that the Holocaust was a secret and explores the reasons why America's newspapers downplayed the horrifying reports from Europe."
Online exhibit from Newsuem.

H-RHETOR
"Provides a forum for scholars and teachers of the history of rhetoric, writing, and communication".

Imperium Journal
An International Journal of Media and Postcolonial Studies
"...an online journal dedicated to the study of the postcolonial experience within a diverse range of contexts related to media and postcolonial studies. The rise of the two disciplines in the context of internationalisation and globalisation in the post-war cultural milieu provides the intellectual impulse for the development of the journal."

Information Society News - (dead link)

Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)

InterCom

The International Journal of Listening

Internet News Bureau

[Iraq] Council on Foreign Relations

Jewish Museum of New York

  • Online Exhibitions

Journal of Interactive Media in Education
(ISSN 1365-893X)

Latin American Journalism Handbook

Learned Publishing - (dead link)
ALPSP Journal

Library of Congress

  • Recorded Sound Reference Center
    "...provides access to the commercial and archival audio holdings of the Library of Congress. The collection dates from 1926 when Victor Records donated over 400 discs to the Library's Music Division to supplement its print and manuscript holdings. In the custody of the Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division since 1978, the collection has grown to include over 2 million items encompassing audio formats from cylinders to CDs. The holdings complement the field recordings of the American Folklife Center and the moving image collections served in the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room."
  • Federal Research Division - Terrorism Studies - (dead link)

Los Angeles Times

M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture

Museum of Television and Radio

National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University

The National Security Archive
The George Washington University

New Media and Information Technology in the Middle East - (dead link)

  • Working Papers - (dead link)

The New York Times on the Web

New York Times at 150
1851-2001 - From the Newspaper Age to the Information Age
"...with articles and reminiscences by Michael Chabon, David Halberstam, Ann Quindlen, Frank Rich and others.
Free registration required

Newseum
The Interactive Museum of News

  • Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs - (dead link) An exciting and emotional exhibit.
  • Holocaust: The Untold Story
     "The exhibit is based on a TV documentary of the same name that was written and produced by the Newseum and is scheduled to premiere on The History Channel."

Newspaper Association of America

Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
"Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view."
By David B. Givens

Online Journalism Review (OJR)
- USC Annenberg School of Journalism

PBS FRONTLINE - News War
Companion website to the February - March 2007 special four-part into the future of news. Watch the full series online.
Includes: Secrets, Sources & Spin ; What's Happening to the News ; Stories From a Small Planet ; 50+ Interviews ; Teacher's Guide.

PBS - Online Newshour Video
"Archive includes programs broadcast after February 7, 2000."

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

  • What the World Thinks in 2002 (December 2002)
    How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America
    "Despite an initial outpouring of public sympathy for America following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, discontent with the United States has grown around the world over the past two years. Images of the U.S. have been tarnished in all types of nations: among longtime NATO allies, in developing countries, in Eastern Europe and, most dramatically, in Muslim societies."

Political Cartoons and Cartoonists
"The resources collected here trace the history of political cartooning from the beginning of the nineteenth century and document its transformation during the watershed period at the end of the century when political cartoons emerged as one of the most popular and influential features of the daily press. It also documents some of their uses, from Nast's campaign of the 1870s through portrayals of political leaders, issues, and world events during the first decades of the twentieth century."
By Jim Zwick

P.O.V. Interactive
"A laboratory for televisionís potential, P.O.V. seeks to amplify broadcasts by pioneering media innovation, interaction and impact through a wide range of energetic activities. As the preeminent showcase for our nationís boldest and most exciting independent non-fiction films, P.O.V. seeks to entertain, inform and connect citizens to ideas, services and each other."
- PBS Online

Persian Daily Newspapers and Weekly Magazines

Pluralism Project
"Our mission is to help Americans engage with the realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and the active dissemination of resources."
- Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University.

Press Release Writing Tips
 By Jay Waller

The Pew Research Center For the People and the Press

RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter

Religion in the News (ejournal)
- The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP)
"A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970."

  • Open Government Guide
    "...a complete compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws."
  • Homefront Confidential
    How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know.
    6th edition, September 2005, RCFP White Paper.

Reporters Without Borders - (dead link) (English, French, or Spanish)
"kept on constant alert via its network of over 100 correspondents, rigorously condemns any attack on press freedom world-wide by keeping the media and public opinion informed through press releases and public-awareness campaigns..."

  • The Impunity Black List
    "Reporters without Borders and the Damocles Network present here, for the first time, the list of the 21 countries in which murderers, abductors and torturers of journalists are being granted full or partial impunity by their government."

Rhizome.org
The New Media Art Resource / Fresh Art+Text
"...to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs and services support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Our core activities include commissions, email discussions and publications, this web site, and events."

Revealing Bodies
"Visual images have helped us observe, describe, and conceptualize the human body over the centuries. In conjunction with the Exploratorium's upcoming Revealing Bodies exhibition, this Web site looks at how imagery has changed the way we look at our bodies, drawing from many times and cultures."

San Francisco Public Library

Save Our Sounds
A Joint Project of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress
"The collections include thousands of recordings from every state of the union and include every genre of spoken word and music -- speeches, tales, biographical narrative, poetry, blues, gospel, jazz, folk, ethnic, country, bluegrass and old time, polka and contra, western swing and conjunto, pow wow and sacred song -- providing a documentary aural history of the nation from the late 19th century to the present."

Seattle Times

September 11
Screenshots of Online News Sites, September 11/12, 2001
"This collection of screen shots from over 200 news sites (as of october 19th) around the world was taken on Sep 11 and 12. We hope the growing collection will serve the education of the online news industry and further its quality."

The Stars and Strip: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
"From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Television Production Manual
"Copyright 1980, 1981, 1994, 1996, Roger Inman and Greg Smith. All rights reserved. This book was written primarily by Roger Inman and Greg Smith."

Ten Days That Shook the World
By John Reed. 1922
"The first-person chronicle of a lengendary [sic] journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution, whence he delivers one of the great stories of the twentieth century."
From Bartleby.com

Transnational Broadcasting Studies (TBS)
An Electronic Journal Published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism, The American University in Cairo

The Washington Quarterly