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Advice
- Narrow your focus to a particular event that put your issue further in the news; it is easier to research an event than a trend
- Look for facts, i.e., something you can verify. Statistics and other numbers can be good because they are easy to compare (for example, crime rates from one source are easy to compare to crime rates from a different source).
- Be careful that the statistic you're using is actually about the exact thing you're talking about [here's an example]
- Ignore rhetoric [using language effectively to please or persuade]
- Ignore images; they're too emotionally manipulative
Mainstream Media
- The Associated Press
- BBC News
- BusinessWeek
- Christian Science Monitor
- CNN
- The Los Angeles Times
- NPR: National Public Radio
- The New York Times
- Newsweek
- Reuters
- Time
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
News Sites
- Center for Public Integrity
- CounterPunch
- Democracy Now
- Dissent
- If Americans Knew
- Monthly Review
- Mother Earth News
- Mother Jones
- Multinational Monitor
- Nation
- Noam Chomsky's Web site
- Progressive
- Utne Reader
- Z Magazine
- Wikipedia's list of Investigative journalists
Media Criticism
- American Journalism Review
- Annenberg Public Policy Center Survey Results Press Release
- Bibliography of Scholary Articles
- FactCheck.org from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
- F.A.I.R.
- Free Press
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Neutral Sources?
Rate Cards
Relevant Journals
- Communication Research
- Communication, culture & critique
- Crime, media, culture : an international journal
- Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
- European journal of communication
- Extra! : the newsletter of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)
- Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies
- Global Media and Communication
- Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
- International Communication Gazette
- Journal of media and religion
- Mass communication & society
- Mass media
- Media, culture & society
- Media, War & Conflict
- New Media & Society
- Popular communication
- Television & New Media
- Visual Communication
- Written Communication