Internet Tutorials and Free tools
The Bare Bones Guide
to HTML
Dr. HTML
This great UT site will analyze your Web site, checking everything
from coding to spelling errors, and also features a long list
of great HTML links.
Internet Tools
Helpful list of tools and tutorials on HTML
Roger
Black Web Sites that Work
Society for News Design
Team Web Learning to Publish
UT's own tutorials -- one of the best
Tools for
Web Design
Long and useful list of tools and tutorials
Web Site
Design for Journalists
Melinda McAdams' tips on design and copy editing
Why do People use something this Bad?
A Nielsen paper about the Web
The WWW Help Page
Answers to design questions and more
Free stuff for your site:
(Hint: to save a gif or jpeg, click on it and use "save
this image as," to save it to your hard drive. Then use
HTML to add it to your page, and FTP or Fetch to upload the
images and the pages to your server).
UT Austin
Images
Free images from UT Austin. Show friends and family the campus
from your Web site!
Animation Factory
Lots of free gifs and animations. Most of the gifs on this
site are from here.
Art Today
Fun gifs and jpegs for your site. Many free icons and links
to other sites.
The
Icon Browser
Free icons from a searchable database
Netscape
Free download of some products
RealPlayer
Download real audio or real video player FREE
Get free browsers, ftps (to upload your pages), and other
neat stuff from Download.com
or Shareware.
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Online Media and Writing
American
Journalism Review's newspaper list
Editor & Publisher
list of worldwide news
Journalism Net
By Julian Sher
Online Journalism Review
Online
Press Organizations
End of
Legacy Media (Newspapers, Magazines, Books, TV Networks)
by Jakob Nielsen. Also by Nielsen:
Online
Newcomers More Middle-Brow, Less Work-Oriented
Know your audience! A new survey on Internet users by the
Pew Research Center. See other surveys at Nua
Internet Surveys.
The Slot, an exceptional
site by a Washington Post copy editor. Be sure to check out
"sharp points" and "the curmudgeon's stylebook."
Other common errors here: 50
Common Errors, by Associated Press Managing Editors,
and Common
errors in AP style and News Writing, a list of common errors
and tips for in-class use.
Wired Style
Styleguide by Wired
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Searching the Web
Bill Dedman's
Power Reporting Resources and Training for Journalists
New site offers lots of useful tips and search strategies.
CENSUS - Population Topics
Has worldwide population data as well.
Edgar
SEC database
Federal Resources
Fed Stats
One-stop shopping for fed stats
FedWeb
Clearinghouse for federal agencies
Finding Data on the Internet
Findlaw
Useful for international and U.S. law
General Accounting Office
Searchable (!) database of reports and research by Congress'
investigative agency.
LANIC's Reference page:
The focus is on Latin America but this page has a strong
general reference section.
Lexis Nexis
An amazing resource that is normally very expensive but free
at UT. Search for full-text articles, transcripts, biographies,
etc. Also try the Dow Jones service in the PCL. (not accessible
from home as of May 1999).
The Mining Company
A useful set of pages filled with links for various topics.
RAND
Think tank with lots of useful research and reports on government
spending
U.S. Library of Congress
A tremendously useful, searchable site. Links to bills, schedules,
committee hearings and testimony and reports.
UT Library Quick Reference
A long list of reference works.
Washington
Post Search Page
More Search Engines and Tips:
Altavista
(get rid of commercial sites by typing in: -domain:com +
"journalism jobs" Then click on search!
Ask Jeeves
Dogpile
Go to
Google
New!!! Offers some of the very best returns by far.
Internet Research News
Useful site with the latest news on searching the Web
Metafind
Yahoo
Useful for certain kinds of searches.
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General
Journalism Resources
• Academic resources
The Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication
Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Find long lists of professional associations at AEJMC,
American Journalism Review,
the Columbia Journalism Review,
Society for Professional Journalists,
among others.
• Professional Sources
Columbia Journalism Review Resources
Internet Journalism Resources
Investigative Reporters & Editors
(IRE)
Needle in a Cyberstack
The Slot, an exceptional
site by a Washington Post copy editor. Be sure to check out
"sharp points" and "the curmudgeon's stylebook."
Statistics Every Writer Should Know
The math site is also extremely useful.
WWW Virtual Library -- Journalism
• Listservs
Barbara Fought's list of listservs for journalists
Many other journalism-related sites also have information
on Listservs, but this is one of the best.
Everything E-mail (Mailing List Discussion Groups/Newsletters)
Lessons 7-8-9 in the "BACK TO SCHOOL:" THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
CLASSROOM 101series
Listservs and mailing lists: How reporters share ideas
Liszt
A searchable e-mail list. Also try: Sparklist
Listservs
List of email groups
What
Is a Mailing List? (InterNIC 15-minute series)
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Jobs in Journalism
Newspaper Jobs
The very best site for job tips, online resumes, FAQs,
and test-taking. Read the whole thing; it's that good. This
site, by the Detroit Free Press recruiter, Joe Grimm, even gives
you tips for the job interview and picking out your best clips.
This site is a must for any journalist looking for a job, and
it links to the best job sites out there, saving you the surfing
time.
Journalism
Careers
This site, by the Association of Managing Editors, is the
one of the best sites for internship shopping. They've listed
internships by deadlines and by state. A great site with
tips for interns and graduates.
Communication Career
Services
An exceptional resource for UT journalism students. Sign
up for interviews with the top media people in the country,
take advantage of CCS resources, advice and recruiting fairs
while you're here!
• Other job sites:
Crashing the Market: A Journalist's Guide to Cover Letters and Resumes by Medill
Dow Jones
Jobs and internships
Reuters
Reuters offers jobs and internships, even for graduates,
which they call "graduate schemes," for those unfamiliar
with the other English language
Bloomberg
Jobs and internships
Washington Post: Mission Possible: Finding an Internship
J-Job Listings
By UCAL Berkeley
Editor & Publisher Home
Page
Search the classifieds
AJR Newslink
National Diversity Newspaper Job Bank
Free registration
Best
newspaper jobs from Arlene Morgan
From the people who brought you the Detroit Free Press' site
Media Online
Yellow Pages
IRE Jobs Page
Show us the
Money
An article about journalists' salaries. Also see RTNA
Salary Survey Statistics
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