Good stuff

Europeana is a just-released Web site that is a repository for information from archives all over Europe, including "digitised books, ...

Useful and different elections info sources

Our Vote Live tracks election problems during election day. Google Elections Gallery will show real-time elections results on maps. fiveth...

Help for researchers

I hadn't heard of Google's 'In Quotes' until I saw it mentioned in the AskSam newsletter. What an intriguing idea, and hope...

Some updates

Not much to report here, except that I have added some new news researcher blog links to the NewsliBlog 's sidebar. And, for those of yo...

A new news researcher blog

Sharon Clairmont, of the Orange County Register, has started the Answers. Sources. Knowledge. Blog. Lots more news researcher blogs listed ...

A roundup, of sorts

After a slow week, a couple interesting new research blogs: Paper Trail Blog from Center for Public Integrity, links to useful and interest...

Research links of the week, and ex-journalists

After a long respite, some new research links, and a couple more references to what's going on in the world of laid-off journalists: We ...

Anthrax redux

Seven years later, whenever the anthrax story comes to mind I remember the several weeks spent trying to learn everything there is to know a...

Catching up

I've been out of town and hoped to update the blog during my trip but didn't see anything to blog anyway. I've been avoiding po...

Some useful stats sites

For lovers (and seekers) of statistics, Shirl Kennedy has put together a nice list at Resourceshelf of Niche Statistics . Among the unusual ...

Newspapers, bloggers, and librarians

The question of journalists and blogging has been debated for years, and I've linked to lots and lots of stuff on the topic. There's...

Cell phone directory, news research and interpreting the news, and politics

Some more interesting thoughts on news research and other topics... In the Wall Street Journal by Jason Fry, The Case of the Missing White P...

Change happens (South Florida newspapers version)

I've been following the coverage of the announced layoffs at the Miami Herald , of course, and am struck by a few things: The first onli...

Character of a candidate, researching size, Miami Herald legends, and politicized journalists

In all the blogging and commenting this morning about last night's speeches, one stands out for me. In The Moderate Voice , by Pete Abel...

Remembering who was right

I didn't know, until I noticed it in Dan Gillmor's blog, that respected McClatchy Washington reporters Warren Stroebel, Jonathan Lan...

New ways to get the news

I'm intrigued with today's story about the Bill Clinton rant against the author of the negative Vanity Fair story about him, record...

A few research links

New York Times coverage of national political conventions, 1896-1996 . Agflation: The real costs of rising food prices , news and data from...

Times Machine

Over the last few years, several newspapers have made the expensive investment of scanning their microfilm to make stories available online ...

Background on the news

Combing the journalism blogs is one of the best ways to find collections of links for researching background information on news of the day....

A few research links, and a last note on the Bush/Obama flap

UN Data : search or browse all the statistics, including latest news. DMV.org , unofficial guide to DMVs in all 50 states. VINcheck from Na...