- Ad*access More than 7,000 digitized American and
Canadian print advertisements originally published between 1911 and 1955. Site also has a good historical/social/cultural timeline
- Advertising World U. Texas-Austin; broadly useful, but read
the Why Isn't This Updated More Often? page. Infrequent updates do impact usefulness of the site.
- American Press Institute founded by newspaper publishers
in 1946; its mission is the training and improvement of the news industry and journalism educators. The Web site offers many resources--
discussion boards, journalism tools and tips, industry-related articles, and links to other sites
- Attacks on the Press 2001 A survey
conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); international in scope.
- American Communication Association
- American
Communication Association: Communication Studies Center
- AJR.org American Journalism Review online; site being updated not yet fully functional
- Center for Nonverbal Studies Private, nonprofit
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
- Fast Facts A guide to fast facts like those you would
find in an almanac. The site is a metasite providing and organizing links to other sites which contain the desired information. Now part of
refdesk.com
- FACSnet The web site states the goal of the organization
is to improve the quality of information reaching the public through the news.
- FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
- Freepress a nonprofit, public-interest organization that advocates
free expression, decentralized ownership, and enhanced federal stewardship of the US news and mass media. Freepress
takes advantage of the Internet's organizational and education capacities to bring free press and media reform issues together
in a user-friendly, well-edited format.
- Free Speech Movement U. of California-Berkeley. This Web site
is the preeminent source of primary materials on this icon of the sixties, representing a joint effort by the Bancroft Library
and the non-profit Free Speech Movement Archives.
- Freedom House.org A non-profit, nonpartisan organization, is
a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. Includes a link to
2004 Global Survey of Press Freedom
- Finding Data on the Internet: A Journalist's Guide
- The History of Televised [Presidential] Debates
the site conatins links to excerpts of film footage, still photos, newspaper and magazine reactions for each debate
televised from 1960 to 2000; includes a section called Curriculum Resources, teachers will find this section invaluable at it contains
lesson plans and activities
- Indianz.com
focuses on Native American news of all kinds
- Journalism Resources U. of Iowa
- Journalism Education Association With links to National Scholastic Press Association
- Kidon Media-Link International guide to media sources. Every country has its own integrated page. There are no separate pages for newspapers,
magazines, television, radio, and news agencies anymore.
- The Media and Communication Studies Site UK-based site
- National Press Club fee-based services available
- The Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina
- Newslink.org A-Z and regional links to newspapers, broadcasters and magazines; also provides a JobLink area
- NewsWatch: Center for Media and Public Affairs
- Nonverbal Communication Research Page
- The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
- Radio Days: Radio Broadcast History
- Religionwriters.com developed by the
Religion Newswriters Assn, a nonprofit trade association; navigation is simple; site content includes surveys,
daily headlines, RNA press releases and articles; the articles on current
events contain background information with additional sources provided
- STATS Statistical Assessment Service.org aims to bring
quality and reliability to the reporting of statistics. The organization tries to weed out bad studies by researching current
issues and the statistics behind the reports on those issues.
- Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University
- Theory.org.uk Communication-theory web site
- Virtual Communication Assistants
The Virtual Communication Assistants Site is maintained by the KU Communication Studies Department. This site links a series of tutorials designed to assist individuals in various interpersonal tasks. These resource sites include:
The Virtual Presentation Assistant; The Virtual Meeting Assistant; The Virtual Interviewing Assistant; The Virtual Research Assistant;
The Virtual Statistical Assistant; and The Virtual Team Assistant (U of Illinois).
- Women's Institute for Freedome of the Press
- NewPages.com: Alternatives in Print & Media Frequently updated; Sometimes slow loading.
- The three sites below concentrate on narrow aspects of the alternative media, while New Pages acts as a portal viz the
following quotation-- News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals,
independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.
- Alternative Press Center Select Links on the left navigation bar to access
more than 425 related web sites
- Independent Media Center
- Street Librarian has some interesting and unique links
 Opinion Page Sites
- Footnote TV Created & maintained by journalist and lawyer
Stephen Lee, it provides analysis of issues presented in popular television shows; one reviewer described the site as
an interesting, thought-provoking, discussion-enhancing view of how today's popular media interprets contemporary news.
- Opinion-pages Montgomery Kersell, a Canadian journalist,
has created a site that provides access to a variety of current editorials, columns, and commentaries from small, mid-sized
and metropolitan newspapers from the US, Canada, and a few other countries.
The sites below include editorials and columns from newspapers, television, radio and online media.
- American Online Columnists
- Web Sites for Journalists--Columns and Editorials
- Creators.com: Opinion Columns
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