Media News/Journalism Sites
Jim Romenesko's Media News: inside-the-newsroom news
Dan Fost: writes the weekly "Media Bytes" column for San Francisco Chronicle
Media Insider: media relations articles and conferences
LexisNexis Hot Media News: editor and organizational changes
Media Week: online news magazine of the media
MediaCentral: online portal from Primedia media magazines
The Tyndall Report: coverage analysis of network news
Sam Whitmore's Media Survey: coverage analysis of technology media
On The Media: NPR's program analyzing the media
Media Notes Inc. Extra: a blog maintained by Washington Post's Howard Kurtz
The Myers Report:daily media industry news
NewsPaperLinks: gateway to local newspapers
NewsLinks: links to top newpaper, magazine and radio sites
NewsDirectory.com: links to global media
MediaFinder: subscription-based media database
MediaPost' Media Daily News: resources for media buyers – good for PR, too
MediaBistro: "connecting all media professionals to new opportunities"
IWantMedia: "focusing on diversified media news and resources. It provides quick access to timely media news and relevant industry data, updated throughout the day"
MediaLand: maintainted by MediaLife Magazine, this site contains profiles of top media markets, listing demographics, daily newspapers, radio and TV stations and cable systems. Not 100% inclusive (left out Los Angeles Times out of LA profile)
Audit Bureau of Circulations' Media Professional
CyberJournalist: tips and talk for the wired journalist
Gladwell.com: The Tipping Point & New Yorker articles by Malcolm Gladwell
World's Best News: some of the best news & online magazine sites
Electronic Media: "the national newspaper of television business." Delivers weekly coverage of news and commentary on the industry’s programming, distribution, technology and deals. Its editor-at-large, Diane Mermigas pens a special subscription newsletter, Mermigas on Media
Agence France-Presse: world's oldest established news agency
Breaking Views: from Dow Jones
MSN/CNBC/Reuters: Breaking news
NewsFactor Network: breaking e-business & technology news
News.com: c/net's news page
Gawker: The New York Times called it a "a voyeuristic, media-obsessed, gossipy and occasionally creepy blog that chronicles 'the darker Manhattan-centric themes: class warfare as recreational sport; pathological status obsession; and the complete, total, and wholly unapologetic embrace of decadence.'"
The Black Table: a Web-based newssite that covers the media. Its goal is "to answer the questions no one's addressing and wander into the vast landscape that other media outlets avoid."
The Morning News: a Web-based broadsheet, publishing new articles every weekday
Flak Magazine: reviews and criticizes "art and media and the contexts in which they are produced. Flak believes that mainstream criticism and opinion journalism all too often take a back seat to advertorial boosterism and ideological pandering"

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Journalism Magazines and Organizations
Poynter Institute: everything you need to be a better journalist
Columbia Journalism Review
American Journalism Review
American Journal Review's Reporter Tools
Online Journalism Review
Editor & Publisher
American Press Institute News
Freedom Forum
Columbia School of Journalism: home of the Pulitzer Prize, online journalism awards, etc.
Neiman Foundation for Journalism: world's oldest fellowship for journalists
Project for Excellence in Journalism: an initiative by journalists to raise the standards of American journalism
NAA: Newspaper Association of America: NAA members account for nearly 90 percent of the daily circulation in the United States
Magazine Publishers Association: interesting facts, trends about magazines and advertising/marketing
Dr. Samir A. Husni aka Mr. Magazine: tracks just about every consumer magazine published in this country both new and old; Dr. Husni is an author, magazine industry consultant and Hederman Lecturer and Professor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi where he heads the magazine service journalism program
Radio Advertising Bureau: interesting facts, trends about radio representing more than 5,000 U.S. stations
ASNE: American Society of Newspaper Editors: main organization of daily newspaper editors; fights for First Amendment
The American Editor: published six times a year by ASNE, the magazine examines issues of interest to newspaper editors, including management, editorial content and ethics
APME: Associated Press Managing Editors: provides information and support for editors charged with producing daily newspapers
NAB: National Associaiton of Broadcasters: research page; also check out the NAB Education Foundation, which conducts research, education, and other activities related to broadcasting and its impact
ONO: Organization of News Ombudmen: maintains contact with news ombudsmen worldwide, discusses news practices and a wide range of issues connected with ombudsman work; also check out ONO's links to other journalism associations
OPA: Online Publishers Association: produces groundbreaking research into online advertising and media consumption
RTNDA: Radio-Television News Directors Association & Foundation: the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism; sets standards of news gathering and reporting; the Foundation promotes excellence in electronic journalism through research, education and training for news professionals and journalism students
CMPA: Center for Media and Public Affairs: a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media and election campaigns
FACSNET: The Foundation for American Communications: provides the following: conducts educational programs for journalists and their sources; publishes primers and guides on a variety of topics important in the news reporting process; maintains online resources designed to help journalists find information they need and to understand the subjects upon which they report
Talkers: a leading trade publication serving the Talk Radio industry, dubbed "The Bible of Talk Radio"
Statistics Every Writer Should Know: a site maintained by a producer for LATimes.com
BlackPressUSA.com: "Your independent source for news for the African American Community"
NNPA: National Newspaper Publishers Association: represents 200 Black community newspapers, check out members. In conjunction with its NNPA Foundation and Howard University, it sponsors the Black Press Institute, which runs BlackPressUSA.com
HispanicMedia100: provides information about Hispanic print and broadcast media
AAN: Association of Alternative Newsweeklies: represents 121 non-daily free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major North American metropolitan areas. Each paper has a distinct, local identity that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market
NewsPages: "! News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more"
Religions Newswriters Association: "a new resource to help print and broadcast journalists when they encounter religion in stories about government, politics, education, social services, science and other areas of public life"
Religion News Service: "the only secular news and photo service devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics"
NEMA: New England Electronic Media Association: promotes the region's electronic media to the advertising community, in New England and throughout the country; provides informtion and news for its members and for those interested in New England media; contains a great membership directory
ZWire!'s Newspaper Network: is combined network of more than 1,400 co-branded newspaper web sites, making this the "the largest online network of newspaper-based community portals in America, providing fresh, relevant, local news, entertainment, classifieds and community information to millions of readers every day"
MondoTimes: "the worldwide media guide"
National Readership Survey: a survey of UK readership trends
EIM: European Institute for the Media: "a think tank which analyses media and communications development in the Europe of the digital age and advises policy makers, governments and other social groups on the improvement of freedom of media in all parts of Europe, on the constituents of the future "civil digital society" and on the prosperity and social well-being within the evolving new media economy." It provides a global perspective through cooperation with institutions on other continents
NY Press Association Members: check out the members of the NYPA
NewsBlues: news for and about broadcast news, including inside scoops and job listings; check out its Links Library to online news sources
London Press Club
Overseas Press Club of America

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Research Sites, Sources & Surveys
CEO Express: business portal for CEOs
CEOTrak: "comprehensive, hand built directory of important and useful web based data sources on a wide variety of topics and interests, including business news, op-eds, journalism resources
AssignmentEditor.com: the newsroom home page
Power Reporting: research tools for journalists
Business Researcher's Portal: business intelligence portal
Small Business Development Center: Corporate Research
NY Public Library: Company Information Search
NY Press Association Links: helpful links for journalists
Corporate Information: information on public companies
Hoover's: comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence
Industry Portals: industry research desk
Researchville: manage your research here
Moreover: business intelligence and news headlines
News is Free: daily news headlines
Researching Companies Online: business intelligence on prospects, competitors, vendors, customers, etc.
NABE's Links: useful and interesting information in the field of business economics
Pew Internet & American Life Project: original research that explores the impact of the Internet on American life
Pew Research Center: studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues, including public opinion about the news media
Center for Media Research: research reports and studies about the media
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce: provides a framework for global electronic commerce that focuses on network infrastructure, products, processes, payment systems and policies, using markets and economic analysis
University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR): conducts nationwide surveys whose findings are widely reported in the media, including: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, an annual study of income change among American families; the Survey of Consumer Attitudes, a now-monthly survey of attitudes about the economy; Monitoring the Future, an annual survey of lifestyles and substance abuse among young people; the Study of American Families, a survey of mothers and their children; the Health and Retirement Study, and its companion study, AHEAD, biennially surveys on aging and health; and the National Survey of Black Americans
Cambridge Consumer Credit Index: a monthly telephone poll of 1000+ randomly selected American consumers tracking attitudes towards consumer credit. Results are released to coincide with the Federal Reserve Board's G19 release on consumer credit on the fifth business day of every month
American Customer Satisfaction Index: a uniform and independent measure of household consumption experience. The ACSI tracks trends in customer satisfaction and provides valuable benchmarking insights of the consumer economy for companies, industry trade associations, and government agencies
SuperPages.com: search for U.S. businesses by address, category, name or phone number
US Economic Census: statistics by industry and sub-industry including data by state and employment size, primary product class, sales and cost breakdowns, capital investments, product statistics, shipments by state, materials consumed by kind, etc.
FedStats: offers a full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research: a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that officially declares when the U.S. economy has entered into a recession and when it has started a recovery; NBER is dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works
NBER's links: links to other sites that may be of interest to economists, including Federal Reserve Economic Data (aka FRED), Congress' Leading Economic Indicators, etc.
BEA: Bureau of Economic Analysis: an agency of the Department of Commerce, BEA seeks to strengthen the understanding of the U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant GDP and economic accounts data in a timely and cost-effective manner
BIS: Bureau of Labor Statistics: the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics
General Accounting Office: GAO's primary products are reports, often called "blue books," and testimony before Congress; the site lists many of its reports
Census Dept's Fact Finder: provides population, housing, economic and housing data
Analysis Zone: represents a compilation of hyperlinks to relevant sites, articles, and books dedicated for business analysts and system analysts to help them learn and manage their daily needs
First Gov: the official U.S. gateway to all government information
My Gov: Government Guide: "government services made easy"; provides information to contact politicians
Bartleby.com: "great books online," including quotations, references (Columbia Encyclopedia, World Fact Book, etc.), and English usage (Strunk & White, Fowler, etc.)
New York Public Library Online Research: provides brief answers to factual questions or may direct you to sources, such as Web pages or print material with information on the topic
Ask Now: a 24/7 reference service is staffed by local and national reference librarians
FindLaw.com: is specifically designed to meet the information management needs of in-house counsel, offering all the resources found on the Corporate Counsel Center site
Find Articles: contains free articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journal
MeansBusiness: scan some 100 prominent magazines, newspapers, journals, and web sites in search of the latest and most original business thinking. These ideas are chosen for their originality, cogency, and relevance to today's rapidly changing economy
Archive.org: maintains the "WayBack Machine," a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, "with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format"
Business 2.0 Web Guide: "our hand-picked directory of the best business links on the web"
You Are Where You Live: people with similar lifestyles tend to live near one another. This site describes every U.S. neighborhood in terms of 62 distinct lifestyle types, called clusters and also defines 48 lifestyle types, called segments
RefDesk: "a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources"
Googlism.com: "will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms"
Google Trends: "compare the world's interest in your favorite topics"
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PR Resources
Awards Lists: PR and tech awards
Publication Links: links to print and broadcast Web sites
TvRadioWorld: directory of radio, TV stations on the Web
COMFM: global directory of radio, TV stations on the Web
NewsBios: subscription-based reporter profiles
UseIt: Jakob Nielsen's Website on web usability
Flash Hall of PR Shame: includes 10 usability tips for Flash websites. "And of course nothing illustrates it better than Skip Intro"
Good Documents: A Web site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet
Nielsen Ratings: tv ratings
Nielsen Net Ratings: Website ratings
ComScore Networks: Website ratings (formerly Media Matrix)
Top Circulation Magazines: top magazine ciruclations, compiled by MDS
Measurecast: provide Internet broadcasters, advertisers and media buyers with next-day reports on streaming audience size and demographics – information critical to evaluating and placing streaming media advertising
TNS:a leading market research groups that provides Industry Sector Insight, and Innovative Research Solutions
PR Place: includes addresses and hot links to PR organizations and publications, on-line news services and databases and journalism interest groups
Marketing with Honors: an extensive searchable, online database of nearly 600 U.S. and international awards competitions – available by susbcription
Chase's Calendar of Events: contains more than 12,000 events of national or broadly regional interest, or those that seem to have some special entertainment value; book is updated annually. Sponsors of events are not charged for inclusion in the calendar
Celebrate Today!: "features 3,400 special days, weeks, months, and anniversaries that anyone can use to promote their products, locate meetings themes, plan a party, uncover story ideas, make lesson plans, or motivate people
Award Sites: lists various rated award programs (and their winners), starting with the top rated 5.0 and followed by five other levels
Online-PR: links and references designed to help "deliver better, faster and less-expensive online PR"
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PR Vendors
PR Newswire
Business Wire
EurekAlert!: an online press service created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to provide a forum where research institutions, universities, government agencies, corporations and the like can distribute science-related news to reporters and news media
Quadnet: a news distribution service that focuses on science, technology and medicine
Newstream: multimedia press kits, a joint venture of Business Wire and Medialink
MediaMap: subscription media database
Vocus: subscription media database
prPowerBase: subscription media database
Bacon's: media directories & media monitoring
Burelle's: media monitoring & media directories
Yellow Book: media directories and directories for Congress, Federal, state and local leaders
eWatch: electronic clipping service
Factiva: online newpaper, wire service & magazine database
DialogPro: online-based information services
SourceWire: "the independent resource for hi-tech and business journalists;" UK-based service for journalists similar to ProfNet and MediaMap Sources; offers globals lists of market research firms, key idustry associations, professional institutes, and user groups
MeansBusiness:provides "the constant flow ideas, strategies and innovation from top business experts," including corporate portal sites
Dash30: "a multi-media company that creates and delivers targeted programs for corporate Intranets and employee portals"
MediaTracks: provides syndicated radio programming to stations nationwide, including "Viewpoints" and "Radio Health Journal"
CRN Radio: a leading radio marketing company, CRN produces innovative, successful, integrated campaigns for many Fortune 500 companies
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PR Newsletters
O'Dwyer's PR Newsletter: covers PR, IR and related fields. Weekly
PR Week: offering the "latest news, in-depth analysis, top columnists, and reviews of campaigns – plus the best selection of job opportunities for PR professionals across the US and the world." Weekly
Holmes Report: provides "competitive insight and intelligence to public relations professionals." Also sponsors the SABRE (Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation) awards. Weekly
PR News: "Resource for expert news and strategies on PR and Marketing." Also sponsors the Platinum PR Awards. Weekly
Marketing Computers: aka Technology Marketing. Weekly
Expert PR: strategies, case studies, editorial moves published by Media Map. Semi-weekly
Power Behind the Pen: strategies and case studies published by TJFR. Monthly
The Scoop: strategies, case studies and editorial moves published by Lexis/Nexis
Ragan's PR Intelligence Report: monthly. Provides "reliable, useful news about the public relations industry. Each issue is full of practical, how-to stories and best practices in crisis communication, measurement, media relations and much more"
Ragan's Media Relations Report: also check out Ragan's PR Resources, which offers an editorial calendar and tips. Monthly
PR Reporter: "dedicated to the behavioral aspects of public relations, public affairs and communication strategies. Its quick read format keeps you up-to-date on the latest theories, research, public opinions, case studies and successful public relations techniques." Weekly
Media Industry Newsletter (min): "delivers the latest 'min-sider' news to top publishers, advertising and media directors. min reports on the news, deals, trends and personnel moves shaping the consumer magazine publishing industry. Weekly
min's b2b: "news, analysis and strategies on business-to-business publishing." Weekly
Infocom Group: publishers of BullDog Reporter
The Gauge: Newsletter of Communications Research
PR Opinions: weblog of "thoughts and opinions on the Public Relations profession and industry." Hosted by Tom Murphy
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Venture Capital
American Venture: online network aimed at linking entrepreneurs and investors
Asset Alternatives: publishes newsletters, research reports, and conferences, information, and networking for the private equity industry, including: Private Equity Analyst, Venture Capital Analyst: Health Care Edition, and Venture Capital Analyst: Technology Edition
Daily Deal: provides every constituency in the deal community with news, events and personalities shaping the deal community
Growth Capital: publishes Capital Growth Interactive, a monthly newsletter on private capital deals and resources and The Annual Guide to Entrepreneurial Venture Financing
Hoover's IPO Scorecard: delivers comprehensive IPO market intelligence
IPO Monitor: provides real-time news, lifecycle events; proprietary reports; commentary; and custom performance reports
PricewaterhouseCoopers' MoneyTree Survey: PricewaterhouseCoopers along with Venture Economics and NVCA measures quarterly investment activity for policy makers, investors, journalists, academics and entrepreneurs who closely follow the venture capital industry
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision to Reality: Entrepreneur Resource Center provides information and advice for entrepreneurs on business plans, sourcing capital, etc.
Private Equity Analyst: news about the private equity market and its investment specialties, including venture capital, LBOs, mezzanine investing and turnarounds
Private Equity Week: tracks and researches private equity deals for the entire venture capital market
Silicon Valley.com: timely and in-depth technology news site, delivering up-to-the-minute news and opinion to fast-track technology managers and key industry decision-makers
Venture Associates: offering a broad range of corporate services to new and emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs
VC Buzz: the one-stop Internet VC information network
Venture Capital Journal: news and analysis of private equity markets
VentureEconomics.com: global private equity intelligence site, providing daily news and statistics
vFinance.com: researches and validates virtually every well-known VC firm in America
Venture Finance: the guide to capital for growing companies
VentureOne: offers investors, service providers, and entrepreneurs comprehensive, accurate, and timely information
Venture Reporter: overviews and metrics of the most dynamic and fastest growing sectors, including wireless, security, software, life sciences, broadband, optical, content, and services. It also has an impressive search engine for VC deals
Venture Wire: "every deal, every day," including current research
NVCA: National Venture Capital Association: facilitates networking opportunities; and provides research data and professional development
NVCA: Links to other VC organizations, resources
AEEG: American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth: uniting innovative, emerging growth businesses across industry lines to promote positive national government action
The Churchill Club: Silicon Valley's premier business and technology forum
Foster Center for Private Equity: Dartmouth's program to advance the understanding of private equity investing – the engine behind the entrepreneurial activity that drives global innovation and productivity
Foster Center Resources: useful links
Garage Technology Ventures: founded by Guy Kawasaki, offers valuable resources to help entrepreneurs build their businesses
Investors' Circle: a non-profit national network of angel and institutional investors, foundation officers and entrepreneurs who seek to balance financial, social and environmental returns
MIT Entrepreneurship Center: trains and develops leaders who will make high tech ventures successful
NVST Investor Network: provides entrepreneurs with tools and services to showcase their opportunity while providing investors access to the deals they want
NBIA: National Business Incubation Association: provides information, education, advocacy and networking resources to bring excellence to the process of assisting early-stage companies
Small Business Toolbox: provides helpful customize-able business documents for download, covering a range of issues, including finance, employee management, compensation & benefits, marketing, worker safety, recruiting & hiring, vehicles & equipment, and firing & termination
EntreWorld.org: a "premier online resource for small business owners, its search engine delivers the best and most useful information, guidance and contacts for entrepreneurs. It also accepts and publishes "Entrepreneur's Byline," which appeared in BusinessWeek.com
IdeaSphere: Boston-based membership group that supports start-ups by serving as a 90-person board of advisors
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Corporate Governance/Financial Service
FASB: Financial Accounting Standards Board: improve standards of financial accounting and reporting
IASB: International Accounting Standards Board:developing a single standard for financial accounting and reporting
CalPERS Facts at a Glance: a monthly compilation of information from the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), America's biggest pension fund, which takes an activist stance in improving corporate governance
Center for Public Integrity: investigates public service, government accountability and ethics related issues
Council of Institutional Investors:120 pension fund members managing more than $1 trillion serves as voice for institutional shareholders
SEC EDGAR Search: search online corproate forms and reports
Fortune 500: Fortune's annual list of America's largest companies
Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies: list of publicly traded companies that are at least three years old and have revenue and market caps of at least $50 million
Forbes 500: Forbes' annual report card on America's biggest corporations
Moody's Investment Service:leading provider of credit ratings
S&P Comstock: offers real-time information services
National Association of Corporate Directors: promotes high professional board standards, creates forums for peer interaction, enhances director effectiveness, asserts the policy interests of directors, conducts research, and educates boards and directors concerning traditional and cutting-edge issues
Center for Corporate Governance: proposes sensible and progressive changes in corporate structure and management through education and interaction;