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Recommended Websites - Media & News

News Directories and Portals

"AllAfrica publishes around 2,000 reports a day from more than 130 news organizations and over 200 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Organized by country and topics."

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

"See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows all sides so you can decide."

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/home.html

"Al-Monitor brings together top journalists from across the Middle East. Including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey. Plus, we have daily translations from 20 major news organizations in the region."

https://archive.org/details/tv

"Launched in September 2012, this research library service is intended to enhance the capabilities of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and other engaged citizens. It repurposes closed captioning to enable users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs. Available at no charge, the public can use the index of searchable text and short streamed clips to explore TV news, discover important resources, understand context, evaluate assertions of fact, engage with others and share insights."

http://www.ajr.org/index.asp

"AJR NewsLink is a joint venture between American Journalism Review magazine and NewsLink Associates, an online research and consulting firm. It includes features from the printed edition of AJR magazine, the worldwide online publication lists of NewsLink and original content created especially for online readers.

Plus: 18,000 links to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and news service worldwide, including top sites and search engines."

http://globalvoicesonline.org/

"Founded in 2005 by former CNN Beijing and Tokyo Bureau Chief Rebecca MacKinnon, and technologist and Africa expert Ethan Zuckerman, now offers articles and blog posts wriiten and curated by volunteers and experts in the areas they write about and every story published on Global Voices is vetted by members of our impressive editorial team. We follow a rigorous editorial code inspired by the Society of Professional Journalists. Organized by continent/countries and topics."

http://inkdrop.net/news/

Inkdrop provides links to international news and media updated daily.

http://journalistsresource.org

"Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Journalist’s Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. We surface scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. In 2013 the American Library Association named us one of the best free reference Web sites."

http://news.google.com/

Google’s news portal. International, national, state and local news sources are updated continuously.

http://newsmap.jp/

"Newsmap, a project of design engineer Marcos Wekamp, shows trending news in 15 countries in real-time. Color-coded based on the topic (world, technology, business, sports, etc.), the site uses different sized boxes to illustrate trends—the bigger the box, the more news stories. Turn countries and topics “on” or “off” based on how much information you want to see. Compare trending topics in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, and other countries."

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/index.html

Each NY Times topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published on topics ranging from Madonna to Myanmar. This treasure trove is available without charge on articles going back to 1981.

http://www.procon.org /

"Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format."

https://www.propublica.org/

"ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. ...ProPublica was a recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting."

http://www.publicagenda.org

A non-partisan and non-profit organization, Public Agenda analyzes public opinion about policies and issues. Founded in 1975 and based in New York City, its purpose is to educate leaders and citizens.

http://en.rsf.org/

"Reporters Without Borders’ activities are carried out on five continents through its network of over 150 correspondents, its national sections, and its close collaboration with local and regional press freedom groups. Reporters Without Borders currently has 10 offices and sections worldwide. Its mission is to continuously monitor attacks on freedom of information worldwide;to denounce any such attacks in the media;to act in cooperation with governments to fight censorship and laws aimed at restricting freedom of information."

https://votesmart.org/

Project Vote Smart - A national, non-partisan organization providing information about the political system, issues, candidates and elected officials.

http://www.stateline.org/live/

“Stateline’s unparalleled coverage across all 50 states and insight into the most important policy developments on a range of issues make it an indispensable resource for policy makers and others at all levels of government.Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States. Since 1999, it has reported and analyzed trends in state policy.”

http://www.world-newspapers.com/index.html

Directory of English language international newspapers.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Yahoo’s news portal. International, national, state, and local news sources are updated continuously.

Local Newspapers

http://www.montgomerynews.com/

(Portal for the Ambler Gazette, Colonial News, Glenside News, Globe News, Times Chronicle, Montgomery Life, North Penn Life, Perkasie News-Herald, Souderton Independent, Springfield Sun, Spring-Ford Reporter & Valley Item, and Parents Express)

http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/

Bucks County Courier Times, lower Bucks County

http://www.theintell.com/

The Intelligencer Record, Doylestown and Upper Bucks and Montgomery Counties

http://www.philly.com/ (The Inquirer and Daily News Homepage, Philadelphia)

http://www.pottsmerc.com/ (The Mercury, Pottstown)

http://www.mcall.com/ (Morning Call, Allentown)

http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/ (The Phoenix, Phoenixville)

http://www.readingeagle.com/ (Reading Eagle, Reading)

http://www.thereporteronline.com (The Reporter, Lansdale)

http://www.timesherald.com (The Times Herald, Norristown)

National and International News and Media Websites