Internet Journalism Resources

Tools, competitions, employment for writers

Journalism Employment

Writers' Marketplace -- Categories for every writer or publisher

Job Bank USA -- Search on "edit* or writ*"

Internet Career Connection -- Searches USENET listings.

E-Map -- UK-based journalism job listings

American Journalism Review -- Sign up for the Joblink service now being created

America's Job Bank -- Use the writers category to find journalism employment throughout the US.

Bricolage -- Market intelligence section

Career Path -- Job listings in all the major dailies -- except Salt Lake!

Editor and Publisher -- The classifieds

Freelance Online -- Freelance writing and editing jobs

InkSpot -- Writers' classifieds

Reporters' Net -- Directory of journalists, editors, producers, and freelance writers

PJ Scout -- Free service that will periodically e-mail you jobs in the General Business: Advertising/Public Relations/Media category

Telecommuting Jobs -- The writers listings

Addison Wesley Longman -- The first of several publishers' in-house employment listings

Authors' Guidelines

Peachpit Press -- Computing titles

Publishers on the Internet

E-Mail: Media -- Good list of e-mail contacts for most news media.

Publishers' Catalogues -- Best list I've seen of publishers on the 'Net. International.

MagFinder Online Database -- Links to more than 700 magazines from around the world.

Journalism Newsgroups

E-mail your subscription request in this form: No "subject" line; no "signature" line; message reads: Subscribe (newsgroup) (yourname)

amend-l-- First Amendment issues and other law topics

cablereg-l -- Cable Regulation Digest, a summary of regulatory news

comlaw-l-- American Association of Law Schools section on mass communications law

carr-l -- Computer-Assisted Reporting list

copyediting-l -- Tips on grammar and sentence construction

correx-l --Foreign Correspondents' Exchange Network

digital news -- Implications of new technology on news and the future of the news business

edupage -- Newspaper digest of media issues and information technology.

foi-l -- Freedom of information issues, access to meetings and the public's right to know

intcar-l -- Journalism and computer-assisted reporting outside the US

ire-l -- The Investigative Reporters and Editors list

jhistory -- history of journalism, job placements, research topics

journet -- Journalism course content, resources, teaching strategies, ethics, current news events

news media update -- Latest state and federal cases, other issues in media law.

newslib-- Researching news stories

nicar -- University of Missouri's computer-assisted reporting list.

on-line-- On-line publication of newspaper and magazines, design, content, future

producer -- Short articles on producing news, humor, tips, helps, series overviews, trends

radio rider -- Radio sites on the net, computers, show preparation.

rtvj-l -- Radio and television professionals

shoptalk -- TV news job changes, reprints of newspaper articles by media writers, ratings, job postings, letters to the editors.

spj-l -- Society for Professional Journalists' list

telecom-post -- Congressional action on telecommunications

web-update -- Upcoming programs from the Public Broadcasting Service

writer-l-- Discussions of feature writing, explanatory journalism, literary journalism, book journalism. Info on techniques, markets, jobs, agents, editors

Associations and Competitions

Arachnoid -- Arachnoid Writer's Alliance

Journalism Ed -- Communications and Journalism Academic WWW Sites

Writing Competitions -- The Art Deadlines List

News Sources

CNN -- US and world news

The Economist -- Weekly business and politics news.

Independent Radio News -- News headlines with Real Audio.

The Pointcast Network -- Delivers customised news to your desktop (with adverts)

The Press Association -- Hourly international news headlines, including a roundup of What the Papers Say.

The Week -- Previous week’s European and world news.

C-TV -- Court TV Home Page

ejournal -- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Electronic Journals

News -- Infoseek Guide: Headline News

Writers' Library

Books -- Project Gutenberg Home Page

Greatest Books -- "The World's 100 Greatest Books" and "The World's 100 Greatest People" Audiocassette Collections. Richard tells us that Bonneville International is the primary partner in the company and the works were inspired by the admonition in D&C to study good books.

Writers' Tools

Editorial Eye -- A Must-Read for any editor.

Black on White -- Help for writers who can't stick to a schedule.

Pure Writing -- List of agents and publishers, hints on curing writers's block, author interviews, more

MagFinder Online Database -- Links to more than 700 magazines from around the world.

Bricolage -- Bricolage Table of Resources

National Press Club -- Great list of journalism tools.

The Reporters Network -- nonprofit organization maintaining comprehensive directory of reporters, editors, freelance writers and other news professionals.

CIS Byte -- Byte Ryte Bookshelf

MU Links -- Journalism Resources from University of Missouri

Edge -- The Writers Edge

JForum -- CompuServe's JForum home page

Counsel Quote -- Reporters can submit legal queries and frame searches, link directly to legal experts who are available to provide information.

About the Editor:

LauraMaery Gold and her husband Dan Post edit and write for magazines and newspapers around the world. Click here to visit their library. Visit the Writerspost.Com home page for more information about their writing and editing services.

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