Journalism and newspaper links
A selection of websites given in alphabetic order.
- Ad Web
host site for a range of media companies, including the Newspaper
Society and JICREG, the Joint Industry Committee for Regional
Newspapers. Holds database on regional and local papers with sales
statistics, etc
- ADAM Art, Design,
Architecture & Media gateway
- AEJMC
US association for journalism education
- Artifact
arts and creative industries portal
- Audit Bureau
of Circulations (ABC) audits newspaper and magazine sales;
audits Web site traffic; verifies free publications (VFD). Registration
required (free)
- BRAD
British Rates and Data compiles data on newspapers, magazines
and websites (subscription only)
- British
Library has excellent sections on the history of newspapers,
comics, and music and film magazines
- British
Newspaper Library in Colindale, north London. Information
on contents and visiting
- BUBL
publishing section. UK academics vet useful sites. Excellent
- Editor and
Publisher US magazine
- FT
Creative Business
- Guardian
newspaper's media section appears each week on Mondays. Free registration
to access web archive
- JEA:
journalism education in Australia and South Pacific
- Journalism
links at BUBL. UK academics vet useful sites.
Excellent
- Journalism
UK
- Journalists
and journalism page for schools
- Magazine indexes
and bibliographies by Phil Stephensen-Payne
- MCS
portal for study of media and communication
- Media columnists in US papers:
- Media
groups profiled by Caslon Analytics in Australia
- Media
History Project at college of University
of Minnesota
- Media librarians AUKML
- Mediatel
subscription-based media resource
- Media
Week trade paper has searchable archive
- National
Federation of Retail Newsagents has 21,000
members
- News
Directory lists 20,000 English language news sources
- Newspapers in
Education US site
- Newspapers
in Education information at UK's Literary Trust
- Newspaper
Society founded in 1836. Represents 1400 regional newspapers
in the UK. Links to these papers and other related sites
- NRS
National Readership Survey of biggest magazines and newspapers
- OZ
magazine front covers
- Ozit
OZ magazine trading and discussion
- Pinakes
portal to 45 academic subject portals
- Pira International
research and consultancy in printing, packaging and publishing
- Press
Gazette is the weekly trade magazine for journalists
(Quantum Publishing).
- Private
Eye, the satirical weekly, carries scandalous, and occasionally
libellous, coverage of the activities of journalists in its 'Street
of Shame' column (named after the time when most of the nationals
when based in or around Fleet Street in the City of London)
- Publishing
links at BUBL - excellent selection
- Regional
Newspapers Database run by the Newspaper Society
- San Jose
Mercury, claims to be the first newspaper on the Internet.
Based in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Launched new site about
the area early in 1999: www.siliconvalley.com
- Scottish Newspaper
Publishers Association represents 130 papers
- University of Pennsylvania
Library resources
- Press Association.
Registration required (free). Supplies news and pictures to UK
newspapers. This forms the basis of stories, or is carried verbatim,
often without attribution. Individuals can subscribe
- Reuters,
'the world's leading financial information and news group'. Founded
in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter as the first news wire service.
He used the new telegraph cable under the Channel between Dover
and Calais to send stock market information between London and
Paris (so replacing pigeons). Computerised international stock
market service introduced in 1964.
- CNN headlines
- Newspage
personalised news service
- News on
Yahoo
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Careers and training
Cardiff
School of Journalism
Lille School
of Journalism, France
Oxford
Centre for Publishing, Oxford Brookes University
PMA
training group in London
Westminster
University journalism course pages
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