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Many useful documents, guides and supplements are available on the Web. You also will receive lots of handouts in class, which you may misplace or not have with you when you need them. Below are links to useful Web sites as well as links to download some class handouts.
Class handouts:
Assignments
- Beat analysis
- Newspaper analysis guide
- Profile story assignment
- Meeting/press release assignment
- Event coverage assignment
- Analysis assignment
- Article analysis guidelines
- Story ideas guidelines
- Reporter's choice guidelines
- Essay guidelines
Articles
- Catch your assumptions early
- Reporters' advice on profiles
- Looting or finding? Flap at AP
- Role of journalism in the midst of disasters
- Dart Center aids 'journalist as first responder'
- More horrible than truth: news reports
- Two articles of ethics decisions
- Caution and journalism
- Ethics heroes
- Why did they do that?
- Online storytelling forms
- Ch. 4, News language, from Newspaper Journalism by Susan Pape
- Mixed Message: Experts debate use of e-mail as interviewing tool
- The lost middle voice
- Catch a killer
Other materials
- Faculty team receives recognition (press release)
- Teens hooked on cigarettes (press release)
- Snacking can be healthy (press release)
Newspaper clips
- Old Chrysler has potential, but no brakes
- Hate in the name of love
- Searching for food at the fair
- Williams, releasing album, has life-long love of music
- No weekends, no vacations, no complaints
- Special Olympians
- Cuba caravan ready to roll
- A series of stories covering property development
- Achievement gaps persist
- What America can't build: a sentence
- Analysts say experts are hazardous to your newspaper
- Mind your manners
- Walking the walk
- Workers reflect on strike
- Cancer by the numbers
- Is culture gone from Ground Zero?
- Planning Mississippi's coast
- Along Lake George, a pre-winter chill
- Temptation near for military's problem gamblers
- In struggle over Iraq, women are on the front lines
- Front line in day laborer battle runs right outside Home Depot
- Way north of the border
- Agency could take over family planning
- Earth, wind and frostbite
- For Muslims, loans for the conscience
- For some college graduates, a fanciful detour
- Working poor take harder hit in pocket
- Bump in the road
- Skiers risk answering the call of their wild side
- Eco-friendly burial sites give a chance to be green forever
Web sites
Find newspapers:
Find people
- Switchboard, finds phone numbers, addresses
- IU Media Office, to find IU professors, authorities in various disciplines
Find press releases:
- PR Newswire, click on "Industry and Markets"
- Canadian releases from CNW Group, but possibly useful for U.S. trends and topics
- U.S. Newswire
- Check out Yahoo's professional and Yahoo's trade organization listings. Internet Public Library also features a good listing.
Find info about this area:
- Visit Bloomington, from the Convention and Visitors Bureau;
- Hoosier Net, which features links to just about any local organization that has a Web site;
- The City of Bloomington Web site;
- City Data's detailed info on the city of Bloomington;
- Bloomington Police Department;
- Monroe County Web site;
- Monroe County Public Library Web site, featuring links to community organizations and events;
- e-Podunk's treasure trove of county data;
- Downtown Bloomington's Web site;
- WFHB, community radio's Web site;
- Monroe County Health Department Web site.
Find government info:
- Indiana Business Research Center includes statistical info as well as links to stats compiled by other organizations
- FedWorld, guide to other federal information
- Consumer Info, links to consumer information and other government publications
- FedStats
- U.S. Census Bureau, link to frequently requested tables
- Government Guide is the perfect tool for one-page shopping. The site lets you enter your zip code, then delivers federal, state and local government resources to your desktop.
Improve my writing:
- Online storytelling forms, from Journalism.org
- ACES Copy Editing Quizzes, specifically AP Style, Pick a Word and Editing II
- AP Style Online
- 100 Most Common Usage Errors
- Dead constructions: how to kill them
- Misplaced modifiers: how to avoid them
- Punctuation: commas, hyphens, quoting
- Pet peeves: irritating but common mistakes
Get help with beat reporting
Reporting resources
- Power Reporting.com
- CyberJournalist.net lists links to all kinds of reporting tools.
- Internet Public Library, organized by topic
- Newswise: Search tools for reporters
- Robert Niles, IU School of Journalism alumnus, edits the Online Journalism Review as well as hosts his own site with links to useful info. Be sure to check out his page, Finding Data on the Internet.
- Free Public Records Access, an article from the Poynter Center, points you to online databases.
Professional journals
- Columbia Journalism Review
- American Journalism Review
- The Quill, from SPJ
- Editor and Publisher
- Online Journalism Review
To connect to Nellie:
- From a Mac on the IU network, click Finder, then at the top toolbar, click GO. Scroll to "connect to server." Type in "nellie.journalism.indiana.edu" and click OK. User is "j341" and password is "J341user." You will see "archived classes" and "classes." Click on "classes," then J341, then Asher.
- From a PC on the IU network, right click on My Computer, select "map a network drive." To "map a network drive," right click on the "My Network Connections" icon and follow the dialog boxes. You'll type: \\nellie.journalism.indiana.edu\ and use the same passwords as above.
- If you are off campus using a dial up or other modem, and using Windows XP, you will need to be sure you have installed the VPN connection wizard from the IUware CD. This applies whether you are using a laptop or desktop, and is necessary for any kind of connection including modem, cable, wireless or other.
Once you've installed the VPN, log onto the Internet in your usual fashion. Then, double click the VPN icon on your desktop. This will seem as if you are logging on twice, but you are connecting to the Internet, then to the IU Network via the VPN.
Then, right click "My Computer," and select "Map a network drive." Type \\nellie.journalism.indiana.edu\ and change the drive letter to "none." You'll be asked for your user name (j341) and password (j341user). Follow the folders to J341/Asher. - Any other problems, seek help from UITS, available by phone (812-855-6789), through Knowledge Base or in person in M086 in the Union. I believe there is help available at the Information Commons in the Main Library as well.