General

Committee to Protect Journalists—www.cpj.org
Investigative Reporters and Editors—www.IRE.org
Media Bistro—www.mediabistro.com
National Press Club—npc.press.org
Newseum—www.newseum.org
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism—www.journalism.org
Poynter Institute—www.poynter.org
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters Sans Frontieres--www.rsf.org
Society of Professional Journalists--www.spj.org


For Student Journalists

Associated Collegiate Press—www.studentpress.org 

CNN Student News—www.cnn.com/studentnews 

Columbia Scholastic Press Association—www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa

Investigative Reporters and Editors student page—www.ire.org/education/highschools.html

Journalism Education Association—www.jea.org

National Scholastic Press Association—www.studentpress.org 

New York Times Campus Weblines—
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/weblines/index.html 

Quill and Scroll International Honor Society for high school students— 
www.uiowa.edu/~quill-sc 

Student Press Law Center—splc.org

For Your Career

JOBS IN JOURNALISM

Editor and Publisher— www.mediajobmarket.com 
Jobs in Journalism, University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism—journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs 
Journalism Jobs—www.journalismjobs.com
Journalism Next—www.journalismnext.com 
Media Bistro—www.mediabistro.com 
Pew Center, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Job Resources—www.journalism.org/resources/joblinks

TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIPS

American Press Institute—www.americanpressinstitute.org
Fellowship, Scholarship and Grants Database, American Journalism Review— www.ajr.org/awards1.asp?awtype=1
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University— www.shorensteincenter.org
John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, Stanford University— knight.stanford.edu 
Knight- Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism, Columbia University—www.journalism.columbia.edu/knight-bagehot
Knight Digital Media Center, a partnership between the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications and the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism—www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT—web.mit.edu/knight-science
Knight-Wallace Fellows— www.mjfellows.org
Nieman Foundation— www.nieman.harvard.edu
Maynard Institute— www.mije.org
Poynter Institute— www.poynter.org

PRIZES

Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Awards--www.journalism.columbia.edu
Awards Database, American Journalism Review—
www.ajr.org/awards1.asp?awtype = 1
Edward R. Murrow Awards, Radio and Television Digital News Association— www.rtdna.org/pages/awards.php?g=67
Emmy Awards, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences—www.emmyonline.org
Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists—www.mindspring.com/~us009848
George Foster Peabody Awards, University of Georgia—www.peabody.uga.edu
George Polk Awards, Long Island University—www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk 
Goldsmith Awards, Harvard University—
www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/prizeslectures/goldsmithawards
Hearst Journalism Awards Program--www.hearstfdn.org/hearst_journalism/index.php#
Livingston Awards for Young Journalists-- www.livawards.org
National Journalism Awards, Scripps Howard Foundation—
www.scripps.com/foundation/programs/nja/nja.html 
Overseas Press Club Awards--www.opcofamerica.org
Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University—www.pulitzer.org
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards—
www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/journalismawards
Rolling Stone Annual College Journalism Competition—www.rollingstone.com/journalismcontest
Sigma Delta Chi Awards, Society of Professional Journalists—
www.spj.org/a-sdx.asp

For Industry News and Information

MEDIA NEWS

Daily Briefing, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism— www.journalism.org/dailybriefings 
Media Bistro—www.mediabistro.com
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, Topic: Media—
www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/media 
On the Media, National Public Radio—www.onthemedia.org 
Reliable Sources, CNN, transcripts—
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/rs.html 
Romenesko’s Media News, Poynter Institute—
www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

PUBLICATIONS

American Journalism Review— www.ajr.org 
American Society of Newspaper Editors High School Journalism Project— www.highschooljournalism.org 
Columbia Journalism Review—www.cjr.org
Editor and Publisher—www.editorandpublisher.com 
Nieman Reports— www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports
Quill, Society of Professional Journalists--www.spj.org/quill.asp
TV Quarterly—www.tvquarterly.com

MULTIMEDIA/ONLINE JOURNALISM RESOURCES

Cyberjournalist—www.cyberjournalist.net 
Digital News Journalist, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism—digitalnewsjournalist.com
J-lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism—www.j-lab.org 
Knight Digital Media Center, with terrific tutorials on how to use software such as Audacity, Garage Band, and Final Cut Pro—multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials 
Online Journalism Review—www.ojr.org 
Online News Association—journalists.org

For Writing a Story

REPORTING RESOURCES

Citizen Journalism Toolbox, ePluribus Media—
discuss.epluribusmedia.net/cjtoolbox
Database Library, Investigative Reporters and Editors—data.nicar.org/node/61
Fed Stats, government website with links to federally gathered statistics— www.fedstats.gov
Journalist’s Guide to the Internet, a wonderful site run by Christopher Callahan, dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University— reporter.asu.edu 
Journalists' Resource, a Carnegie-Knight funded site run by Harvard to search scholarly papers and journals. content.hks.harvard.edu/journalistsresource/
Power Reporting, a site by Bill Dedman with hundreds of useful links— www.powerreporting.com
Reporter’s Tools, American Journalism Review—
www.ajr.org/newswireservices.asp?mediatype=13
Reporter’s Toolbox, Knight Center for Environmental Reporting—ej.msu.edu/resources.php
Reporter’s Toolbox, American Press Association/Illinois Press
Association Foundation—
illinoispress.org/index.php?option=comcontent&view=article&id=50&Itemid=70
Reporter’s Toolbox, Society of Professional Journalists—www.journaliststoolbox.org

FREE PRESS/FREEDOM OF SPEECH

American Civil Liberties Union—www.aclu.org
First Amendment Center—www.firstamendmentcenter.org 
National Freedom of Information Coalition—www.nfoic.org
Oyez Project, with Supreme Court cases, arguments and analysis—
www.oyez.org 
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—www.rcfp.org 
Student Press Law Center—www.splc.org

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS

Census Bureau—www.census.gov
Federal Communication Commission—www.fcc.gov
Government Printing Office, a rich site with databases for searching for laws and government documents—www.gpoaccess.gov 
U.S. House of Representatives—www.house.gov 
U.S. President—www.whitehouse.gov 
U.S. Senate—www.senate.gov 
U.S. Supreme Court—www.supremecourtus.gov

JOURNALISM RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS

Accuracy in Media—www.aim.org 
American Press Institute—www.americanpressinstitute.org 
Annenberg Washington Center—www.annenberg.northwestern.edu
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication—www.aejmc.org 
Center for Investigative Reporting—
www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org 
Center for Media and Democracy—www.prwatch.org
Center for Media and Public Affairs, George Mason University—
www.cmpa.com
Dart Center for Media and Trauma, University of Washington
www.dartcenter.org
European Journalism Centre, in English—www.ejc.net 
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting—www.fair.org 
Freedom Forum—www.freedomforum.org 
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy,
Harvard University—www.shorensteincenter.org 
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation—www.knightfoundation.org
Media Matters for America—www.mediamatters.org 
Media Research Center—www.mediaresearch.org 
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press—people-press.org
Tyndall Report— tyndallreport.com

PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, letter generator for Freedom of Information Act requests—www.rcfp.org/foialetter
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide with rules for each state’s open records and open meetings laws—
www.rcfp.org/ogg/index.php 
Search Systems, for searching public documents—www.searchsystems.net
Student Press Law Center, letter generator for making public records requests—
www.splc.org/foiletter

Journalism Groups and Associations

PRINT

American Press Institute—www.americanpressinstitute.org
American Society of Magazine Editors—www.magazine.org 
American Society of Newspaper Editors—www.asne.org 
Newspaper Association of America—www.naa.org
Newspaper database from American Journalism Review—
www.ajr.org/newspapers.asp?mediatype=1

BROADCASTING

National Association of Broadcasters—www.nab.org
NBC Icue, a learning environment based on NBC News archives—
www.icue.com 
Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA)—www.rtdna.org

BEATS

Association of Health Care Journalists—www.ahcj.umn.edu 
Center for Science and Medical Journalism—www.bu.edu/com/jo/science
Education Writers Association—www.ewa.org 
Military Reporters and Editors—www.militaryreporters.org 
National Association of Science Writers—www.nasw.org 
Religion Newswriters Association—www.rna.org
Society of American Business Editors and Writers—sabew.org
Society of Environmental Journalists—www.sej.org

DEMOGRAPHIC

Asian American Journalists Association—www.aaja.org 
Association for Women in Communications—www.womcom.org
Association of Young Journalists and Writers—www.ayjw.org 
National Association of Black Journalists—www.nabj.org 
National Association of Hispanic Journalists—www.nahj.org 
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association—www.nlgja.org
Native American Journalists Association—www.naja.com 
South Asian Journalists Association—www.saja.org