Here's a link the whole newsroom can use:
PowerReporting.com.
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On one site, there are free resources for nearly 30 beats.
Agriculture,
food,
terrorism -- whatever your area may be, you're bound to find something to aid your reporting.
The site comes from
Bill Dedman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and
investigative reporter for MSNBC.com.
Dedman, who leads newsroom
"Power Reporting" sessions on writing and
editing, has compiled links to thousands of resources on this site.
Besides the beat-by-beat guide, he's got basic reporting tools --
people
finders,
dictionaries,
maps,
search tools. He also provides useful
government sites and a list of
journalism resources (where there's even
a
link to more journalism links). A good one under the journalism
category is "
alerts," where you can sign up for listservs according to
your beat.
And don't miss the left sidebar. Dedman's "
Top 100 Sites" is a
compendium of resources he finds most useful from all the beats.
Crime
statistics ... a
disaster finder ... a
cost-of-living calculator ... the list goes
on.
Think Dedman's missing a resource? Suggest one
here.
