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Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
The PEJ publishes a weekly content analysis of U.S. news sources and this is their first quarterly overview of those weekly reports. Not surprisingly, the war in Iraq dominates U.S. news coverage.
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CNet.com.
Available online.
News story about legislation proposed by Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher to extend "reporter's shield" protection to bloggers. A link to the bill, the "Free Flow of Information Act," is imbedded within the article. A similar Senate bill has been introduced by Senator Richard Lugar.
Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Annually-published update of West's Encyclopedia of American Law, covering emerging issues, developments in the U.S. Supreme Court, and related topics. Links to the current edition and previous editions are on this page.
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Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus.
Available online.
Some of the nation’s foremost academic researchers on child online safety presented their research and answered questions over a luncheon panel on May 3. This was the first time these prominent academics have appeared together to present their research, which, altogether, represents volumes of data on the state of online youth victimization and online youth habits." Presented here are samples of their research, covering such topics as social networking (MySpace, etc.).
Internet Archive / Archive-It.Org
Available online.
Associated with the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive project works to preserve and provide perpetual access to important online materials that may or may not be available in their original locations. Typically, they preserve "snapshots" of Web pages taken over periods of hours, days, weeks, or longer.
This selection from IA "captures Virginia Government Web sites related to the shooting at Virginia Tech on Monday, April 16, 2007." (This particular section has not been incorporated into the IA site yet.)
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