Journalism
Websites - general
- Journalism resources
- Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled for support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists, from the University of Iowa.
- Journalism
- A page of useful links from the Voice of the Shuttle website.
- JournalismNet
- JournalismNet is a working journalist's guide to the Net - 300 different web pages with over 6,000 links designed to help journalists (and anyone else) find useful information.
- Poynteronline
- 'Everything you need to be a creative journalist.'The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.' 'Founded in 1975 by Nelson Poynter, chairman of the St. Petersburg Times and its Washington affiliate, Congressional Quarterly, the Poynter Institute is beholden to no interest except its own mission: to help journalists seek and achieve excellence.'
You'll find relevant articles on many topics as well as bibliographies on their Resources page.
- Center for Citizen Media
- Website for an 'initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism.' Features updates and analyses of current news, description of projects including 'Principles of Citizen Journalism' (such as accuracy, fairness, and independence) and a law project, and a blog. The nonprofit center is affiliated with the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School.
- Society of Professional Journalists
- The Society of Professional Journalists is the United States? most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.
- National Union of Journalists
- Founded in Britain in 1907, the NUJ is among the biggest and best-established journalists' unions in the world. Members work in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, books, in public relations and in a variety of new media.
The NUJ Code of Conduct encapsulates the fundamentals of journalism.
 Websites - Australia
- Journoz
- Internet information sources for Australian journalists, arranged under broad subject headings.
- PressRelease.com.au
- This site provides information on press releases, how to write press releases, and how to get your press release distributed. We include Australian media listings, we're a clearing house for the latest press release industry news, and we provide an Australian PR news monitor.
- Australian Government Media Releases
- Allows you to search through the federal government archive of media releases from the government and Ministers and provides the option to be notified via email of government announcements.
- The Institute of Public Affairs
- The Institute of Public Affairs is an independent, non-profit public policy think tank, dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom. The IPA's specific research areas include the environment, deregulation, workplace relations, energy, political governance, intellectual property, telecommunications, technology, housing, education, health and agriculture.
The IPA publishes a wide variety of research papers and supporting opinion pieces.
- Australian Centre for Independent Journalism
- The Centre aims to stimulate the production of high quality journalism, especially investigative journalism; to conduct and support research into journalism and the media; to contribute to scholarly debate and research about journalism; and to promote community discussion about the relationship of journalism to political, social and cultural democracy. The Centre is a non-profit organisation based at the Broadway campus of the University of Technology, Sydney.
Activities of the Centre include the publication of investigative journalism; provision of resources and reference services; continuing education for practising journalists and research in journalism, and contributions to debates on areas of concern to journalists.
Print material
To find books on journalism in the Library look up the Library Catalogue using the Subject Heading Journalism.
There are lots of books listed under different subheadings of Journalism. For example, Journalism -- Australia, as well as journalism in many other countries. Other subheadings will show you what books the Library has on various aspects of journalism such as Journalism -- Political aspects, Journalism -- Social aspects, Journalism -- Objectivity, and so on.
You'll find even more if you search under the Subject Headings Journalistic ethics and Journalists.
Journals
The Library subscribes to a number of journals on journalism (great phrase, that!!). You'll find that some of them will be available as online journals and some will be in print (that is, paper) format. You'll also find that many journals will be in both online and print format, the usual pattern being that older issues will be in paper and later issues will be available online. To find out what journals we have, just search the Library Catalogue under the Subject Heading Journalism Periodicals.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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