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JNet's Picks of the Week - 2007

Here is a random selection of some of the best, most topical or just plain fun sites for journalists for 2007.

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• Pick of the week December 23-30, 2007: The Top TenPicks of 2007 Time for the annual review of the best on the web for journalism, with a look back at a year of innovation and improved tools. For all the previous years' Top Ten,, see JNet's Top Ten page.

• Pick of the week December 16, 2007: JournalismNow Want to end the year with some job-hunting? This new site offers leads on American jobs, plus news on the profession. For job postings in Canada and the UK, see JNet's Jobs page.

• Pick of the week December 9, 2007: Global Witness A London-based NGO that specializes in human rights, natural resources and global issues with a media-friendly website that provides plenty of news and background. For similar tools, see JNet's Alternate News page.

• Pick of the week December 2, 2007: Exalead By far one of the most robust competitors to Google - especially in its advancedd Search Features. Makes it even easier to search by countries, by format (slide shows, .pdf files) and other sophisticated tricks. For similar tools, see JNet's Search page.

• Pick of the week November 25, 2007: Infomine Search Engine A virtual library of Internet resources offers databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information you don;t get from usual search tools. Built by several American universities but open to anyone. For similar tools, see JNet's Academic Search page.

• Pick of the week November 18, 2007: Pagefactor How often do you click on a search engine result, only to find out the page no longer exists, or has moved?. Pagefactor provides a clean interface to the well-known Google cache, but also to the lesser known Wayback machine. For similar tools, see JNet's Search page.

• Pick of the week November 11, 2007: Portals to the World The U.S.Library of Congress's extensive list of every country in the world, with excellent resources and links. For similar tools, see JNet's Countries page.

• Pick of the week November 4, 2007: BBC Monitoring - Look Ahead One of the best look ahead diaries on the web, it lists key political and economic events by regions ovr the next 10 days. Great way to see what major news is coming. For similar tools, see JNet's Look Ahead page.

• Pick of the week October 28, 2007: Blinkx Advanced Video Search One of the best ways to search for any kind of videos on the web, but especially news. You can select from more than two dozen top international networks. For similar tools, see JNet's Video Search page.

• Pick of the week October 21, 2007: Journalism Mailing Lists This reference librarian's page provides an index of some of best international journalism mailing lists. They can be a great resource to find colleagues, freelancers, resources and research. For similar tools, see JNet's Lists page.
  
  

• Pick of the week October 14, 2007: WikiScanner This increasingly popular tool quickly identifies the source of millions of Wikipedia edits. A way to find out who is doing the re-writing, sometimes of their own entires.

• Pick of the week October 7, 2007: Scirus Advanced Search One of the most sophisticated ways to find scientific research on the web. Searches only high-quality sites and you can select by year and source. For similar tools, see JNet's Science Pages

• Pick of the week Sept 30, 2007: Omgili is a specialized search engine that scans millions of online discussions worldwide in over 100,000 boards, forums and other discussion based resources. A good way to find ordinary people talking about your story topics. For similar tools, see JNet's Chat Pages

• Pick of the week Sept 23, 2007: Global Incident Map Created to give the public, law enforcement, military, and government individuals a way to visualize terrorism and security incidents across the world. For similar tools, see JNet's Reference and Maps pages
  
  
  

• Pick of the week Sept 16, 2007: TV Guide's Online Video Guide This search engine focuses just on professionally produced video content, so you don't get the usual YouTube irrelevancies. Plenty of entertainment of course but also news clips, documentaries and other footage from the major American networks. For similar tools, see JNet's Video Search Tools

• Pick of the week Sept 9, 2007: Rollyo Rollyo allows you create your own personal search engines. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search -- for example, your favourite media or news sources -- and they create a custom search engine for you that returns results only from those pages. Think of it as your personal Google. For similar tools, see JNet's Search Tools
  
  
• Pick of the week Sept 2, 2007: Labourstart.org For Labour Day, this is a good place to get international news and analysis on the labour movement, provided by a global network of volunteers. For similar tools, see JNet's NewsTools
  
  
• Pick of the week August 26, 2007: Global Integrity Investigating corruption at home or abroad? The Global Integrity Report, provides original, in-depth national assessments combining journalistic reporting with 292 "Integrity Indicators" analyzing openness, governance, and anti-corruption measures for many countries around the world. For similar tools, see JNet's Countries Page.
  
  
• Pick of the week August 19, 2007: Project J-Source.ca A joint project involving eleven (and counting) journalism schools plus the Canadian Association of Journalists. Funded and administered by the Canadian Journalism Foundation, this site offers great research tips, education tips and advice on everything from ethics to Access to Information. For similar tools, see JNet's Media page.
  
  
• Pick of the week August 12, 2007: NewsVoyager.com Hosted by the Newspaper Association of America, this site offers you quick access to local papers in the 50 American states. You can search by using the map or the drop-down list of states. Great for finding the small town paper with the story you need. For more ways to find papers, see JNet's Find Papers page.
  
  
• Pick of the week August 4, 2007: Find News By Category A quick index of news stories by category. The world section in particular can be helpful to find stories by region. The results list does not show the sources, so you have to click to find out what media broke the story, but you do get the most recent headlines from around the world. For similar tools, see JNet's Find News Pages.
  
  
• Pick of the week July 29, 2007: Real Radio News Search A helpful list of the top radio news stations that offer webcasts. For similar tools, see JNet's Radio page.
  
  
• Pick of the week July 22, 2007: Newsmap An interactive way to see maps and areas that are in the news. For similar tools, see JNet's Reference Page
  
  
• Pick of the week July 15, 2007: Reporters Edge.com A web-based people finder for journalists, designed by a former journalist. It's pay-per-use -- but with no sign up or subscrition fees and dirt cheap: as little as $5 for a US-wide criminal records search. For similar tools, see JNet's US Criminal Databases.
  
  
• Pick of the week July 8, 2007: BBC's Quick Guides From the world's top news organization, quick easy guides to major topics from Afghanistan to sex trafficking. For other resources, see JNet's News page.
  
  

• Pick of the week July 1, 2007: Authoratory An excellent way to find scientific and other experts. Full text search of close to 300,000 leading scientists. you can also use the "+" sign in the search box to narrow down your search - for example "aids + harvard + africa" to narrow down a university and a topic. For similar tools, see JNet's Experts page

• Pick of the week June 24, 2007: PageBull A novel way to look at your search results - literally. PageBull displays the results in windows -- you can choose how many -- so that you can quickly see what the web page looks like and decide if it is what you want. For more new search tools, see JNet's Best Search Tools page.

• Pick of the week June 17, 2007: Eyes On Darfur Amnesty International's project uses high-resolution satellite imagery to provide evidence of the atrocities being committed in Darfur -- "allowing people around the world to literally "watch over" and protect twelve intact, but highly vulnerable, villages." as AI says on its website. For more human rights sites, see JNet's Human Rights page.

• Pick of the week June 10, 2007: Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism The deadline for entries is June 15. Two annual prizes of $5,000 each are awarded, one to any freelance print-based journalist covering foreign news, and the second to a local journalist in the developing world. The awards were created to honour Kurt Schork, the American freelance reporter known for his committed reporting around the world, who was killed in a military ambush while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone in May 2000.The awards are being administered by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. For more awards, see JNet's Media page

• Pick of the week June 3, 2007: World Picture News Easy free access to thumbnails of top news photos, plus science, arts and other topics. Easy to search by keyword. For similar tools, see Jnet's Video Search Page

• Pick of the week May 27, 2007: NewsAhead World News Forecast: Future world news headlines and the stories behind them. One year ahead for subscribers. One month ahead for free. For other tools, see JNet's Look Ahead Pages

• Pick of the week May 20, 2007: Google Books Google's book search allows you to look for books in several ways. Put in a name and you get books by the person or books that talk about him or her. Put in a keyword and you get resources about that topic.For other ways to use books as research tools, see JNet's Books page.

• Pick of the week May 13, 2007: Liveleak In the wake of the US military's crackdown on blogs and YouTube videos produced by armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, Liveleak keeps up a steady supply of raw footage -- from military people, insurgents, you name it. For other ways to search blogs, see JNet's blog search page

• Pick of the week May 6, 2007: Livesearch from AlltheWeb All The Web is one of the Google competitors that does a decent job, allowing you to search for news, audio and video. This new live search in beta suggests keywords as you type, giving you some other paths to follow in your story hunt. For other new search tools, see JNet's search page.

• Pick of the week April 29, 2007: The Lede - New York Times News Blog Get an inside peek by a New York Times staffer as the paper covers the top stories. Great links to developing leads and other stories. One of a growing number of newspaper blogs available from JNets' news Blogs page.

• Pick of the week April 22, 2007: The Internet public Library A helpful index by subject - pre-selected and tested by research librarians -- that includes some of best research sites on the web. For similar tools, see JNet's Librarians Help page.

• Pick of the week April 15, 2007: Crawl One of the newest of the metacrawlers -- search engines that search through many engines at once. this one checks through Google, Yahoo and MSN and allows you to compare or combine the results. For other multiple tools, see JNet's multiple search page.
  
  
• Pick of the week April 8, 2007: Dotso Read a dozen top American and world news sites - -from the BBC to the New York Times to Reuters -- without having to leave this single web site. A click on each media outlets gets you a list of their top news stories, conveniently divided by themes. Great for fast browsing without wasting time jumping from site to site. For similar tools, see JNet's News page.
  
  

• Pick of the week April 1, 2007: Yahoo News This venerable news site from Yahoo relies on Reuters, AP and AFP and gives you the option to choose headlines only, summaries and photos. For similar tools, see JNet's News page.

• Pick of the week March 24, 2007: World Press Newspapers One of the standard sites to find newspapers around the world, this site is one of the few that also gives short political descriptions of the papers -- helpful for countries you know little about. For similar tools, see JNet's Newspapers page.

• Pick of the week March 17, 2007: Ixquick World PhoneBooks One of the simplest ways to search for international phone numbers, with an easy draw-down list of countries. For similar tools, see JNet's Phones page.

• Pick of the week March 10, 2007: IraqSlogger It bills itself as "the world's premier Iraq-focused Web site" and it delivers.Up-to-the-minute news plus insight and a review of how the media is covering the war. Run by former CNN executive Eason Jordan. For similar sites, see JNet's News page.

• Pick of the week March 3, 2007: Qooqle Video Having trouble finding that obscure news video someone has posted on YouTube? Qooqle Video offers an improved video search for clips ffrom that popular site. For similar sites, see JNet's Video page.

• Pick of the week February 25, 2007: Podzinger One of the growing numbers of way to search through blogs and podcasts, Podzinger allows users to find audio and video content based on keyword searches. For similar sites, see JNet's Blog Search page.

• Pick of the week February 18, 2007: PicSearch A sleek simple way to find images. For similar sites, see JNet's Video page.

• Pick of the week February 11, 2007: TrackEngine This site ensures you never miss any updates or changes on a web page - maybe a group you are monitoring, a personal page -- or a vacation site. T TrackEngine will email you the page with the updates highlighted For more resources, see JNet's Track page.
  
  

• Pick of the week February 4, 2007: CRAYON Create Your Own Newspaper -- sign in for free, pick the papers and news sources you want and you'll have a web page that delivers the news the way you like it. For similar tools, see JNet's Choose Your News page.

• Pick of the week January 28, 2007: FootageNet One of the premier video archive websites offers the best access for stills and video. For more resources, see JNet's Video search page.
  
  
• Pick of the week January 21, 2007: Reuters News One of the world's leading news agencies has revamped and improved its web site -- all the latest and top news, easily accessible by category.For more tools, see JNet's News pages
  
  
• Pick of the week January 14, 2007: Science Central News and views on breaking science stories. For similar sites, see JNet's Science Beat page.
  
  

• Pick of the week January 7, 2007: GuestFinder Just what it promises -- a list of guests for your show. for more ways to find experts, see JNet's Expert's Page.
  
  

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