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July 27, 2004

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Please note: Many specific media outlets, watchdogs, think tanks, alternative media products, etc., are accessible through the UMB Communication Studies Media Analysis Page. This lists overlaps material on that page somewhat, but is not nearly as complete.

OPERATIONAL: FINDING YOUR WAY

Harvard and UMB Library Databases:

Harvard, Hollis EResources
UMB Healey Library

Logistics and Getting Around

Democratic National Convention official site
Boston 2004 (Boston's DNC informational site)
Fleet Center: -- For Operational Information call 617.624.2801
Fleet Center Traffic Advisory: [traffic_info.pdf]

US Division of Homeland Security: (Has search facility; type “convention”)
Boston Police Department Contacts
Boston Fire Department Contacts
Cambridge Police Department Contacts (phone: 617.349.3300)
Cambridge Fire Department Contacts
MA Turnpike Authority Contacts
MA State Police
MBTA Contacts?
Somerville Police Department Contacts
US Coast Guard DNC Security Preparations
US Coast Guard Boston District Contact

Mapquest
Yahoo Maps
Mappoint

Demographics and Other Statistics

MLA Census Map: http://www.mla.org/census_map
US Government FedStats: http://www.fedstats.gov/

Finding People and Groups

Switchboard.com
Reverse Phone Directory
Reverse Addresss Directory
Google Groups -- type email, see who's posted to various groups

REPORT SOURCES

What's happening when? Who's saying/writing/covering what?

ABC's The Note -- Breaking political news
Google News
Newseum (includes "Today's Front Pages" --

Assessing Web Information

Alastair Smith's Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
Widener University web evaluation guide
Whois.net (Finding owners, ISP's, etc.)
InterNIC Whois Search

Cyberjournalism and Blogs

Center for Digital Democracy: http://www.democraticmedia.org
Blogdex: http://blogdex.net/
Blogger.Com: http://www.blogger.com
Wonkette: http://www.wonkette.com/
CyberJournalist.Net: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/
Yahoo Directory of Political Blogs
Web Traffic: Nielsen Net Ratings: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/news.jsp

Gateways

Drudge Report
UMB CommStudies Media Analysis Web Page
DMOZ List of Media Watchdogs

Wire Services

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
AFP INTERNATIONAL
AFP NEWS WRAP
ASOCIATED PRESS
REUTERS WORLD NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
REUTERS
REUTERS DIGEST
REUTERS WORLD
REUTERS POLITICS
REUTERS ODD
UPI NATIONAL
UPI WORLD

General Resources

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc (IRE).
-----IRE Resource Center
National Institute for Computer-Asssisted Reporting
The Poynter Institute

Global

SEE ALSO: Web Sites for Media Analysis; Drudge Report for links to specific media outlets
Al Jazeera (English)
Al Arabiya (English)
All Hurra (English; limited)

Digging Deeper, Tracking Stories and Rumors

CyberJournalist
CyberJournalist Supersearch
FindLaw
Snopes
The Smoking Gun
Urban Legends

Election Resources

Special Libraries (public domain digital archive)
Special Libraries Association News Division

Alternative Media

Many others on Web Sites for Media Analysis, which also includes indexes of alternative media.

Think Tanks

American Enterprise Institute
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists

 
 

 

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