New for Journalism and Mass Communications

The New York Times has abandoned its online TimesSelect subscription program, which required payment for online access to such content as opinion columns and the paper's archive. (Users who had .edu e-mail addresses could apply for free access.)

As of yesterday, the vast majority of the Times' entire run is available without charge to online users. We have revised Leyburn Library's Web site page for the New York Times to reflect the changes.

Rumor has it the Wall Street Journal might be heading in the same direction.

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Personal Democracy Forum.
Available online.
Recent winner of the Grand Prize in the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism and described as "a data-rich group blog that is breaking investigative stories, collecting voter generated content, and charting the metrics of a net-centric presidential campaign -- from tracking candidate video views on YouTube, the number of their "friends" on MySpace and Facebook, voter demands for appearances on Eventful, blog mentions on Technorati and voter-generated photos on Flickr."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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New York Review of Books
Available online.   Printed copy in the library collection.
Entertaining overview by Russell Baker. (Many articles in the NYRB Web site are not freely available, but, fortunately, this one is.)

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National Conference of State Legislatures.
Available online.
Topical listing of various issues of interest to state governments (education, stem-cell research, etc.), with state-by-state information on the status of laws and proposed legislation.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Career Education Institute.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Listing of internships from over 2,000 organizations. Recently updated.
Links are maintained in various locations on the library Web site, including here.

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NewsLab.
Available online.
"Online resource center for television and radio newsrooms, focused on improving journalism."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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