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  • ABYZ News Links -- Portal to over 16,000 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.
  • Alternative Press Center - a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Look at the Links and Online Directory
  • Ananova -- European real-time news source complete with a virtual newscaster.
  • Campus Newspapers -- Listing of college newspapers across the country from Newslink
  • Indianz.com -- Coverage of news and information about American Indian issues.
  • Kidon Media Link -- portal to international media, accessible by country
  • News and Newspapers Around the World -- This site only lists newspapers that are free, up-to-date and do not require registration of any kind. The newspapers are also full texts of stories, not just headlines or summaries, and they must cover a wide range of news topics.
  • NewsLink -- From the American Journalism Review.  It  has comprehensive links to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, television/radio, and news services around the world.
  • NewsPlace for News and Sources --The site is arranged by news subject, weather, sports, and entertainment news stories.
  • Rocketnews -- database includes over 13,000 news and business sources
  • Total News --Provides quick access to late breaking headlines with the ability to see the headline details.
  • Topix.net -- "founded in 2002 with the specific mission of providing users the ability to quickly and easily find targeted news on the Internet."
  • U.S. Newswire --A full-text wire service from the U.S. government and other public policy news sources. A single site where online users can access, read, and download the raw news from many nation's leading newsmakers.
  • U.S. News Archives on the Web -- Provides archive dates and the cost to retrieve the full text of articles. Unless noted, searching is free.  Archives of non-US newspaper archives are also available.
  • World News Network
  • World-Newspapers.com -- "news sites in English, sorted by country and region"
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    Debate & Public Speaking
     
  • Advance Public Speaking Institute -- Provides over 100 free articles on topics such as stage fright, humor, and closings.
  • American Rhetoric -- Great source of online speeches as well as other resources on rhetoric
  • Debate Central-- An educational internet resource for all those involved in competitive educational debating in all of its formats throughout the world.
  • Douglass-- Archives of American Public Address
  • Gifts of Speech-- Women's speeches from around the world.
  • HistoryChannel-- Another great source for online speeches.
  • Lenny Laskowski Monthly Speaking Tips--From "an international professional speaker and an expert on presentation skills and related topics."
  • The National Debate Tournament Homepage--Designed to provide information about NDT-style intercollegiate debate and links to the home pages of NDT debate programs at colleges and universities in the U.S.
  • National Parlimentary Debate Association--Includes extensive discussion about types of debate and links to other debate sites.
  • Online Speech Bank--Collection of links to speeches, sermons, lectures, etc in a variety of formats.
  • Pi Kappa Delta - National Forensic Honorary site includes tournament information and other pertinent facts about the organization.
  • Presenting/Public Speaking--Selection of links.
  • Virtual Presentation Assistant-- An online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills.

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    Resources for Journalists
     

  • The ACP/NSPA Student Media Sourcebook - From the National Scholastic Press Association and Associated Collegiate Press, the site is aimed at university, college, and high school newspapers and press people.
  • CRAYON  - Create your own newspaper. The sites allows to select the type of news links and from where.
  • Documents in the News -- A current events research service that "identifies issues about government making news headlines and web sources with additional information
  • FCC-The Federal Communications Commission  - Regulates interstate, international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
  • Freedom Forum Online -- The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.
  • Internet Resources for the Study of Communications --List of links compiled by Paul Starr for his Sociology class at Princeton.
  • Journalism Resources --"Over 30 annotated pages of resources compiled in support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists."
  • Lobbywatch -- From the Center for Public Integrity, this site has a "two-million-record database that includes every federal lobbying document filed since 1998."
  • Mediastudies.com -- "a hub providing links to educational guidelines and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community."
  • Moreover --Gathers headlines from over 1500 sources and groups them into newsfeeds.
  • Power Reporting Resources for Journalists --Thousands of free resources for journalists -- annotated and up to date.
  • Poynter Online - From the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Nice simple layout for finding any and all aspects of journalism.
  • Telecoms Virtual Library: Broadcasting, Cable TVS and Communications - Provides links to sites for national and international telecommunications, television, and radio broadcasters.
  • Websites for journalists --An annotated introduction to selected web pages of value to journalists.
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    Public Relations
     
  • Directory of Public Relations Agencies and Resources --Links to professional organizations and companies, Ohio is listed under Northeast regional.
  • Internet Resources for Public Relations --General page of links.
  • PR Central --A service for professional communicators and reporters from EMMI, the publisher of Inside PR and Reputation Management.
  • Public Relations Student Society of America -- Discusses career options, provides discussion groups and more.

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    Other Resources
     

  • American Communication Association
  • Center for Communication -- Great source of links that highlight media issues and career possibilities.
  • Communication Currents -- New journal from the National Communication Association
  • Freedom of Information Center -- The FoI Center and its founders were central to the effort to enact a national Freedom of Information Act. Over 1 million documents.
  • Journalism Education Association
  • National Communication Association -- Oldest and largest national organization serving the academic discipline of Communication, includes the listserv CRTNET.
  • National Sound Archive Catalogue -- 2.5 million recordings held at the British Library National Sound Archive. A few free samples, and information on how to purchase particular sounds.
  • Society of Professional Journalists --  Includes SPJ-L listserv,frequented mostly by working journalists, but subscription is open. 
  • Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press -- A directory of media owned by women as well as coverage of feminist media issues.
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  • BRDCST-L.  Very active list for professionals and academics covering all issues of broadcasting and cable. Go to: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=BRDCST-L&H=CRCVMS.UNL.EDU
  • FOI-L.  State and Local Freedom of Information Issues, for journalists, academics, and government officials.   Subscribe: http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=foi-l&A=1&D=0&H=0&O=T&T=1
  • Google Groups. A search engine for newsgroups on the Web. Access: http://groups.google.com/ A number of journalism sites are found under the alt. heading.
  • STUMEDIA. a forum of more than 350 students at over 300 universities for the discussion of all issues of interest to student journalists. Go to: http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/internet/mail/stumedia.htm

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