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- 2006
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- Pick
of the week December 24, 2004: PressDisplay
has improved its site since it was a Pick a few years ago. It offers
a peek what the front pages of today's papers really look like -- not
just their web sites. Choose from 200 newspapers from 50 countries.
You can also search by country or language. You only get the front front
pages for free. The rest you have to pay for. For more tools to view
real papers, see JNet's Finds
News pages.
- Pick
of the week for December
17, 2006:
Economist Country
Profiles One of the most newsmagazines in the world offers extensive
news, country profiles, forecasts, statistics and more on many countries,
plus background news articles. For similar resouces, see JNet's
Countries page.
- Pick
of the week for December
10 ,
2006:
Ask Oxford More than just a dictionary resource, this website offers
you writing tips, common spelling errors, and an 'Ask the Expert' feature.
For similar tools, see JNet's
Reference Pages.
- Pick
of the week for December
3, 2006:
US Institute of Peace With the Iraq
Study group scheduled to give its report to the Bush administration
this week, this is the official site to get it - -plus other excellent
background on major conflicts. The USIP is the coordinator of the Iraq
Study Group's activities. and describes itself as an "independent,
nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress.
Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts."
A PDF copy of the report will be available for download on the web site
at 11:00 am on December 6, 2006. For more tools, see JNet's
International Pages.
- Pick
of the week for November
26 ,
2006:
SourceWatch SourceWatch
is a free encyclopedia of American politicians, issues, and groups shaping
the U.S. public agenda It catalogues descriptions and details of PR
firms, activist groups and government agencies as well as the criticisms
that are made of these groups from different perspectives. For similar
resouces, see JNet's US Politics
page.
- Pick
of the week for November 19, 2006:
Trexy enables you to remember your
searches and the web pages you visit by creating search trails. Working
with over 3000 engines, Trexy allows you to retrace your steps and find
not just your final result but other important items you may have seen.
For more tools, see JNet's
Search Page
- Pick
of the week for November 12, 2006:
Informed Comment University
of Michigan professor Juan Cole's blog is controversial, decidedly left
wing and one of the most widely read sources of news and analysis about
the Middle East. Definitely worth a regular visit. For more blog search
tools, see JNet's Blog
Page
- Pick
of the week for November 5, 2006:
C-Span As the US mid-term elections
head to their climax, you can keep tabs on US political news with C-Span.
It also has a handy list of the best US
political blogs. For similar tools, see
JNet's US Page
- Pick
of the week for October 29, 2006:
Regret The Error Oops!
A fun website that catalogues the errors and major corrections run by
the American media. It also lists several media -- in Canada and the
U.S. -- that still fail to have an online corrections website. For similar
tools, see see JNet's
Media Page.
- Pick
of the week for October 22, 2006:
Ask.com It is being called the best
competitor to Google. Sleek and simple like Google, Ask.com gives you
much the same results - and with handy access to a search tools for
images, news, plus encyclopedia and dictionary references. For other
search engines, see JNets'
Search Page.
- Pick
of the week for October 15, 2006:
SingingFish Still
one of the best sources to find audio and video on the web. For similar
tools, see JNet's Find
Audio Page and JNet's
Video Page
- Pick
of the week for October 8, 2006:GlobalSecurity.org
As tensions rise over North Korea's nuclear program, this site is one
of several sites that can help you track the news and especially provide
background. Another good source is the Nuclear
Threat Initiative For similar tools, see
see JNet's Find News Page and
Countries page.
- Pick
of the week for October 1, 2006:
Knowx One of least expensive
but most comprehensive personal records searches available for American
individuals -- judicial records, bankruptcies, property databases. For
similar tools, see JNet's
Find People Pages.
- Pick
of the week for September 24, 2006:
Experts.com Extensive listings
of (mainly American) experts on almost every imaginable topic. For similar
tools, see JNet's Experts
Pages.
- Pick
of the week for September 17, 2006:
Google News Archives
Google News - -already one of the best news clipping services- -now
offers a free archive search. News archive search provides an easy way
to search and explore historical archives. You can search articles or
a timeline of events and articles. Some of the results from various
publications are free, others are not, but all provide helpful leads.
For similar tools, see JNet's
News Pages and
JNet's Archive Pages.
- Pick
of the week for September 10, 2006:
CJRDaily The Columbia Journalism
Review offers daily news, blogs and insight into the world of journalism.
For similar tools, see JNet's
Media pages.
- Pick
of the week for September 3, 2006:
Sept 11 Archives The
fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks next week is good time to remind
people of the best archive service on the web. Archive.org
has 55 billion pages of history of old, dead and disappeared web pages
-- including this collection of memorable sites from Sept. 11, 2001.
For similar tools, see JNet's
Archve Pages.
- Pick
of the week for August 27, 2006:
Journalists'
Shield Laws The www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
takes a detailed look at the legal rights of American journalists. For
similar tools, see JNet's
Media Law pages.
- Pick
of the week for August 20, 2006:
Search for Video A simple
but effective way to find video clips from news to entertainment. For
other tools, see JNet's
Search video page.
-
Pick
of the week for August 13, 2006:
Crimes of War Project From
Darfur to Iraq to Sierra Leone, this small site tries to cover some
of the major stories with news, essays and background. For other tools,
see JNet's
Human Rights Page.
-
Pick
of the week for August 6, 2006:
US Prison
Databases This genealogy site provides one of the best updated
lists of US inmate names and information. For more US crime searches,
see JNet's
US Crime page
-
Pick
of the week for July 30, 2006:
Internet Access
to UN Information by Research Topic This site from Yale helps
you find the best information from the United Nations based on themes
-- everything from women to human rights to sustainable development.
For similar tools, see JNet's
Countries Page
-
Pick
of the week for July 23, 2006:
Human Rights Tools With the conflict in the Middle East raising
controversies over human rights, this website offers an index to the
best ways to get country analysis: political and conflict analysis,
the legal instruments which that country has ratified, and human rights-relevant
news. For similar tools, see JNet's
Human Rights Page
-
Pick
of the week for July 16, 2006:
Beirut Daily Star Despite
the bombs, Lebanon's major English language daily keeps publishing
-- and putting out an informative web page. For more Middle East papers,
see JNet's Find Papers
-
Pick
of the week for July 9, 2006:
BBC Desktop Alerts The world's largest news gathering organization
with one of the best web news sites also allows you to get the news
you want from the Beeb, when you want it, on your desktop. BBC also
offers you a Daily
E-mail service. You can choose the news you want, all in one personalized
daily e-mail. For other news alerts, see JNet's
News Alert Page.
-
Pick
of the week for July 2, 2006:
Audo Archives The Internet Archive, best known for its Wayback
Machine which allows you to hunt long-disappeared web sites and
pages, also offers an extensive audio archive that includes Presidential
speeches and secret White House tapes, old-time radio shows and modern
alternative radio from Mother Jones magazine and other sources. For
similar tools, see JNet's Audio Archives page.
-
Pick
of the week for June 25, 2006: Counter-terrorismblog.org
You don't have to agree or disagree with the politics of this
popular blog to use its resources - lots of commentary and insight,
plus a good list of the latest news on everything from Iraq to Russia
to Afghanistan. For other tools, see JNet's
Find News Page.
-
Pick
of the week for June 18, 2006: Search
all of Shakespeare Looking for that pithy quote. This new service
from Google Books allows you
to search all of the Bard's works. get a jump on your summer reading.
For other Google tools, see JNet's
Google Page.
-
Pick
of the week for June 11, 2006: Yahoo
News - Audio/Video Select the Audio/Video option from the drop
down menu near the search button and us this site as one of the best
ways to find radio and TV news clips. For other tools, see JNet's
Find News Pages
-
Pick
of the week for June 4, 2006: Super-Search
by CyberJournalist Jonathan Dube of the Poynter Institute offers
the best one-stop site for searching everything from news sites toblogs,
press releases, dictionaries, encyclopedias instantly. For similar
tools, see JNet's Search Page.
-
Pick
of the week for May 29, 2006:Newsroom
Resources Helpful and well-organized guide to top web resources
for journalists prepared by the Gannett newspaper chain. Heavily American
but still useful, organized by topic. For similar tools, see JNet's
Beats page.
Pick
of the week for May 22, 2006:
Picsearch An easy and accurate
way to search for pictures on the web. Allows you to choose the size,
black and white, and search by country. For similar tools, see JNet's
Video Search Page.
- Pick
of the week for May 14, 2006:
Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism
offers two annual prizes of $5,000 each to any freelance print-based
journalist covering foreign news, and to a local journalist in the developing
world. The deadline is June 1. Created to honour fearless freelance
news reporting, the awards were set up in memory of Kurt Schork, the
American freelance reporter best known for his committed reporting in
Bosnia and Cambodia, killed in a military ambush while on assignment
for Reuters in Sierra Leone in May 2000. Administered by the Institute
for War & Peace Reporting , the two winners will be announced
at a ceremony held at the Frontline Club in London in November. For
other awards, see JNet's
Journalism Page.
- Pick
of the week for May 7, 2006:
New
York Times Navigator The web resources designed to help reporters
of one of the world's leading newspapers is also available to the public.
A helpful list of the top net search sites, blogs, politics and other
tools. For more tools on researching countries, see JNet's
Journalism Page
- Pick
of the week for April 30, 2006:
National
statistics Need to know how many cell phones there are in Ireland?
Or how many cars there are in Australia. Get the facts straight from
the source with this
link from Statistics Canada. It lists the official bureau of statistics
for most of the world's countries. For more tools on researching countries,
see JNet's Countries
Page.
- Pick
of the week for April 23, 2006:
ClustyNews Clusty, the search
engine that clusters or groups general web search results into subject
areas also does the same decent trick with news. Put in a general topic
like "Iran" or "greenhouse gases" and Clusty News
gets you the latest headlines but also groups the results into topics
on the side. Plus you can also ask Clusty to sort by source and it gives
you the results based on the news source. For more tools like this,
see JNet's News Page.
- Pick
of the week for April 16, 2006: CiteSeer
is a digital library and search engine that focuses on computer and
information science. What is especially helpful is that CiteSeer lets
you look for articles that reference a particular article, thus allowing
you to hunt for more information related to your topic -- and you can
download the full text of the articles. For similar tools, see JNet's
Beats Pages and Invisible
Web pages
- Pick
of the week for April 9, 2006:
Gigablast This search engine
does what Clusty and others are
beginning to do -- but not Google yet -- by clustering results. Put
in any keyword and at the top you'll get other related topics grouped
together to help you narrow your serach to connected subjects. For other
new search tools, see JNet's
Best Search Engine Pages
- Pick
of the week for April 2, 2006:
SciSeek One of a growing number
of search tools that specialize in finding material not usually available
on the main search engines,SciSeek locates scientific material on a
broad range of news topics. Many of these results are part of what is
known as the hidden or invisible web. For other tools, see JNet's
Beats Pages and Invisible
Web pages
- Pick
of the week for March 26, 2006:
NewspaperArchive Finding
historical archives more than a few years old can be near impossible
on the web. This web site offers 28.9 million newspaper pages from 584
cities going back 238 years. It is not free but less than $30 a year.
There are also several free archives, such as the September11Archive,
which contains more than 15,000 full-image newspaper pages on the World
Trade Center and the events surrounding September 11, 2001.Historic
articles, like the unveiling of the plans for the twin towers in 1964,
can also be found in the archive. Other free archives include Martin
Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and the Titanic. For other tools, see JNet's
Archives Pages.
- Pick
of the week for March 19, 2006:
Google Finance One more weapon
in the Google arsenal, this search tool focuses on business news and
analysis. It covers North American stocks, mutual funds and public and
private companies along with charts, news and financial data.Type in
the name of a major company and you get a useful snapshot. Type in a
keyword like "cars" or "movies" and you get a list
of relevant corporations. For other tools, see JNet's
Business Pages.
- Pick
of the week for March 12, 2006:
Journalism.Org This web site
run by the Project for Excellence in Journalism provides extensive tools
for print, radio and TV journalists - everything from ethics to writing
guides. Its
daily briefing has some of the best inside news about the business.
For more media tools, see JNet's
Media Page.
- Pick
of the week for March 5, 2006:
FirstGov No matter where
you live and work, getting information on, from or about the American
government is vital. The official search page of the US government is
an excellent place to start and its
advanced search page offers even more sophisticated ways to narrow
down your search. For more tools, see JNet's
US Page.
- Pick
of the week for February 26, 2006: Killer
Info This metasearch engine uses several search engines at once
but it adds two important advantages over other multiple search tools.
It clusters or groups your results into helpful themes. And you can
get a "quick peek" of each result without leaving the results
page. For other tools like this, see JNet's
Best Search Engines.
- Pick
of the week for February 19, 2006:
InterPress News Service News from a
development perspective with two advantages: lots of good, easy to use
categories (environment, health) from every region of the world ...
plus in several languages. For more international news, see JNet's
Find News Page .
-
Pick
of the week for February 12, 2006:
Nuclear Threat Initiative As the
crisis heightens over Iran's nuclear program, this is one of the most
reliable and comprehensive sites to keep you informed about nuclear
proliferation. Funded by a non-partisan American foundation, the NTI
brings together news from international sources, plus excellent backgrounders,
country-by-country briefs and an email alert service. Not to be missed.
For more international news, see JNet's
Find News Page and Countries
page.
-
Pick
of the week for February 5, 2006:
Cyberjournalists
Bloglist The most comprehensive list of journalists who keep
blogs. A great way to monitor stories, beats and the media industry.
To find more blogs, see JNet's
Blogs Page.
-
Pick
of the week for January 29, 2006:
WWW Virtual Library - International
Affairs Over 2600 annotated links to high-quality sources of information
and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, favoring those
with cost-free, authoritative information and analysis online. For
similar tools, see JNet's
Find Country Facts Page.
-
Pick
of the week for January 22, 2006:
Ask
Jeeves Picture Search Always a reliable and easy-to-use search
engine, AskJeeves has tweaked its picture search toolbox to give you
better results. The advanced search also lets you search by date and
geography. For more picture searches, see JNet's
Search Visuals Page
-
Pick
of the week for January 15, 2006:
Internet Public
Library -Subjects An annotated collection of high quality Internet
resources, selected by the Internet Public Library that guarantees
you accurate, factual information on topics from blogs to science
to news. For more librarian resources, see JNet's
Librarian Help pages
-
Pick
of the week for January 8, 2006:
International
FOI Laws Freedom of Information (FOI) and access to government
files is the lifeblood of journalism. This website offers helpful
links to resources,tips and official sites around the world, though
it is not regularly updated. For more FOI resources, see JNet's
FOI pages
-
Pick
of the week for January 1, 2006:
Google Alerts: Google
News Alerts have always been a JNet favourite -- the ability to track
your top news stories and set up your own news clipping service is
vital for journalists. The wider
Alert service sends you a 'Web'
alert if new web pages appear in the top twenty results for your
chosen keywords. You can also combine a ''News
& Web" alert, plus set up alerts to monitor chat or Usenet
groups in Google Groups. For more Google Tools, see JNet's
Google page.
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