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Accuracy
Accuracy Checklists
Anonymous Sources
- A Psychological Approach to Requests for Anonymity from Sources
- Cox Newspapers Guidelines on Source Anonymity
- Dallas Morning News Policy on Confidential Sources
- On Anonymous Sources: Deborah Howell
- On Anonymous Sources: Glenn Guzzo
- On Anonymous Sources: The Freedom Forum
- On Anonymous Sources: The New York Times
- Requests for Confidentiality: Written Agreements
Beat Reporting
- Accident Story Checklist
- Budget Story Checklist
- Covering Religion on Any Beat
- Covering Social Security Reform
- Covering the Flu Season
- Explaining Energy Choices
- Getting a Grip on Growth
- Making the Most of Meeting Stories
- Reporting on Guns
- Reporting on Risk
- Reporting on Rural Realities
- Reporting on SARS
- Standards for Covering Trials
- Standards for Education Reporters
- Staying Afloat in Murky Budget Waters
- Telling Tales of High Technology
- Translating Transit Stories for Viewers
- Understanding Taxes
- Working With Sources on Your Beat
Beat Reporting for TV
- Accident Story Checklist
- Bringing Court Stories to Life
- Budget Story Checklist
- Campaign Coverage that Counts
- Cashing in on Campaign Finance
- Conquering the Consumer Beat
- Covering Religion on Any Beat
- Covering Social Security Reform
- Covering the Flu Season
- Educating Viewers about Education Finance
- Explaining Energy Choices
- Getting a Grip on Growth
- Making the Most of Meeting Stories
- Reporting on Guns
- Reporting on Risk
- Reporting on Rural Realities
- Reporting on SARS
- Standards for Education Reporters
- Staying Afloat in Murky Budget Waters
- Telling Tales of High Technology
- Translating Transit Stories for Viewers
- Understanding Taxes
- Working With Sources on Your Beat
Bias
Book Writing
Business Pressures
Campaign 2000
Capturing Voices
- Arranging Your Interview Questions
- Avoiding the Suits
- Beyond Man on the Street Interviews
- Broaden Your Source Base
- Capturing the Reaction
- Dumb Is Smart
- Follow-up Questions
- Getting Anecdotes
- How Do You Feel?
- Including Children's Voices
- Interview Preparation
- Know Your Funnels
- Know Your Interviewee
- Leading Them On
- Less Is More
- News from the Outside In
- Nine Steps to Citizen Journalism Online
- Off on a Tangent
- Questions Guaranteed to Engage (Maybe)
- SF Chronicle's Two Cents Project
- Sounds from Silence
- Sure-fire Openers
- Telling the News Through Conversation
- The Challenge of the Live Interview
- Using Email as a Reporting Tool
- Viewers as Sources
- Viewers' Choice
Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
Communication
Conflicts of Interest
Diversity: Ideas & Tools
Editing
Ethics & Special Issues
- A Journalist's Guide to the Geneva Conventions
- Arab Americans - Questions and Answers
- Army Times - General Standards of Conduct
- Code of Ethics for Dow Jones
- Commercial Bribery Policy
- Conflicts of Interest Checklist
- Converting TV Scripts to the Web
- Covering a Serviceperson's Death
- Covering Bioterrorism
- Covering Intelligence Issues
- Creating a TV News Website
- Embedding Release for Iraq 2003
- Ethics Checklist
- Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism
- Ethics: Journalism's "Underpants"
- Excerpts from Ethics Codes on Plagiarism
- Explain Controversial Coverage To Your Audience
- Gifts Policy
- Ground Rules for Embedded Reporters in Iraq
- How to Survive as Ombudsman
- Integrating an Online Focus Into Your Newsroom Operations
- Interviewing Victims - Tips & Techniques
- Interviews with Victims of Accidents or Other Tragedies or Their Relatives
- Making Money on Your News Content Website
- New York Times Code of Conduct (PDF)
- Nine Steps to Citizen Journalism Online
- OJR's Ethics of Online Journalism
- Online Ethics: Paid Promotional Content
- Online Journalism Ethics: A New Frontier
- Photojournalism Ethics Guidelines
Ethics Codes
- Army Times - General Standards of Conduct
- Code of Ethics for Dow Jones
- Ethics Checklist
- Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism
- Ethics: Journalism's "Underpants"
- New York Times Code of Conduct (PDF)
- OJR's Ethics of Online Journalism
- Online Ethics: Paid Promotional Content
- Online Journalism Ethics: A New Frontier
- Photojournalism Ethics Guidelines
- Proposed Ethics Code for Coverage of Victims
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Editorial Standards and Policies
- RTNDA Ethics Code
- RTNDA Ethics Guidelines
- San Antonio Express-News Ethics Code
- SPJ Code of Ethics
Freedom of Information
Independence
Interviewing
- Arranging Your Interview Questions
- Avoiding the Suits
- Beyond Man on the Street Interviews
- Capturing the Reaction
- Dumb Is Smart
- Follow-up Questions
- Getting Anecdotes
- Getting the Most from Your Interviews
- Handling Tough Interviewees
- How Do You Feel?
- Interview Preparation
- Know Your Funnels
- Know Your Interviewee
- Leading Them On
- Less Is More
- Loosening Lips
- Off on a Tangent
- Questions Guaranteed to Engage (Maybe)
- Sounds from Silence
- Sure-fire Openers
- Ten Tips for a Better Interview
- The Challenge of the Live Interview
- Using Email as a Reporting Tool
- Working With Sources on Your Beat
Investigative Tips
- Build Your New Understanding
- Burden of Proof
- Help with Federal FOIA
- Opening the Process
- Recognizing A Source's Biases and Agendas
- Reporting Tips from Pulitzer Winners
- Rosenbaum Note-Taking Method
- Seven Basic Rules for Investigative Reporting
- The "Civil Disobedience Test" for Journalism
- What Did You Really Learn?
Living in the Newsroom
- Community Coverage Training
- Creating a "Brownbag" Program
- Cultural and Class Diversity
- Diversity Checklist
- Diversity Comes From the Bottom Up
- Diversity Reviews
- Does Diversity Make a Great Newsroom?
- Getting Past Barriers to Newsroom Communication
- Getting Staff Involved
- How an Open Newsroom Fosters Conscience
- How to Survive as Ombudsman
- Integrating an Online Focus Into Your Newsroom Operations
- Juggling Daily News with Enterprise
- Learning to Cover the Community
- Managing Time Better
- Newsroom Role Reversals
- Retaining Minority Journalists
- Ten Tips on Time Management
- The Importance of Humor
- The One-Minute (OK, Maybe Five-Minute) Editor
- The Reporter-Editor Relationship
- What Does an Ombudsman Do?
- What is Diversity?
- What TV Stations Look for in New Reporters
Managing Your Newsroom
- Changing a Newsroom's Culture
- Cox Newspapers Guidelines on Source Anonymity
- Creativity in Newsrooms: Suggestions for Editors
- Dallas Morning News Policy on Confidential Sources
- Diversity Checklist
- Explaining Yourself
- Getting Staff Involved
- Inspiring Your Staff
- Integrating an Online Focus Into Your Newsroom Operations
- Requests for Confidentiality: Written Agreements
- Retaining Minority Journalists
- Ten Rules for News Managers
- The Editing Model
- The One-Minute (OK, Maybe Five-Minute) Editor
- Training on a Shoestring
- What Some News Organizations Promise
- What TV Stations Look for in New Reporters
Media Literacy
- How to Write a Letter to the Editor
- Finding the Right Person to Contact at a News Organization
- Getting Stories on Local TV News
- How Networks "Make the Call" on Election Night
- How People Learn from the Press
- How the News is Framed
- How to Survive as Ombudsman
- How to Talk to the News Media
- What Citizens Should Expect from the Press
- What Does an Ombudsman Do?
- What Some News Organizations Promise
Organizing the Story
Plagiarism
Political Reporting
- A Primer on Understanding Polling
- Broaden Your Source Base
- Campaign Coverage that Counts
- Cashing in on Campaign Finance
- Covering the Whole Campaign
- Digging for Sources
- Escaping the Campaign Bubble
- How Networks "Make the Call" on Election Night
- Making Convention Coverage Interesting
- Making the Political Meaningful
- Organization and Planning
- Paul Krugman's 2004 Campaign Rules
- Ruts, Traps, and Thinking Outside the Box
- The Truth Testing Role of Journalists - Case Study
- Using Polls and Talking to Citizens
- Using the Web to Cover Politics
Reporting
- A Guide to Using Crime Numbers
- A Primer on Understanding Polling
- A Psychological Approach to Requests for Anonymity from Sources
- Accident Story Checklist
- Accuracy Checklist: Detroit Free Press
- Accuracy Checklist: San Jose Mercury News
- Accuracy Checklist: Society of Professional Journalists
- Accuracy Checklist: Stemer and MacCluggage
- Adding Substance to Nat Sound Stories
- Addressing Errors
- Arranging Your Interview Questions
- Avoiding the Suits
- Beyond Man on the Street Interviews
- Bringing Court Stories to Life
- Broaden Your Source Base
- Budget Story Checklist
- Build Your New Understanding
- Building an Internal Accuracy System
- Burden of Proof
- Campaign Coverage that Counts
- Capturing the Reaction
- Cashing in on Campaign Finance
- Circles of Corroboration
- Conquering the Consumer Beat
- Covering Religion on Any Beat
- Covering Social Security Reform
- Covering the Flu Season
- Covering the Whole Campaign
- Cox Newspapers Guidelines on Source Anonymity
- Dallas Morning News Policy on Confidential Sources
Research: Local TV
Research: Politics
Research: War Coverage
Statistics & Numbers
- A Guide to Using Crime Numbers
- A Primer on Understanding Polling
- Finding the Median
- Five Common Number Mistakes
- How Good Are Your Numbers?
- How Poll Sampling Works
- Margin of Error and Confidence Interval
- Meaning of Mean
- Per Capita and Rates
- Percent Changes
- Standard Deviation
- Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- Where to Get Reliable Numbers Online
Storytelling
- "Making a Narrative"
- A Dozen Tips for Writing News Online
- Adding Substance to Nat Sound Stories
- Before Reporting, Ask These Three Questions
- Connect the Story to Deeper Themes
- Develop Characters
- Find a Hook
- Find the Inherent Structure
- Give Background and History
- Keeping an Open Mind
- Learning to Love the Paper Trail
- Make Every Word Count
- News from the Outside In
- OJR's Tips for Writing for the Web
- Online Storytelling Forms
- Principles of Composition
- Putting the Story in the Black Box
- Quality Online Writing
- Rosenbaum Note-Taking Method
- Shooting Better Online Video
- Standards for Covering Trials
- Story Structures
- Telling the News Through Conversation
- The Internet-TV Connection
- The Many Sides of a Story
- Using Context to Make Stories Interesting
- Using Graphics in Continuing Coverage
- Using Graphics to Make the Complex Clear
- Viewers as Sources
- Writing Clearly on Deadline
Time Management
Training & Mentoring
Victims of Crime/Tragedy
Visuals & Graphics
Wartime News Coverage
- A Journalist's Guide to the Geneva Conventions
- Arab Americans - Questions and Answers
- Covering a Serviceperson's Death
- Covering Bioterrorism
- Covering Intelligence Issues
- Defense Department's Nine Principles of Combat Coverage
- Embedding Release for Iraq 2003
- Explain Controversial Coverage To Your Audience
- Ground Rules for Embedded Reporters in Iraq
- Jessica Lynch: Media Myth-Making in the Iraq War
- Production Standards for Coverage of Terrorists
- Reporting on Risk
- Spotting a Phony War Hero or POW
- Understanding Military Rank
- Understanding War Crimes
- Useful Web Sites for Covering the Military
- What to Bring Into the Field
- When to Keep Secrets
Watchdog Reporting
- Build Your New Understanding
- Burden of Proof
- Faux Investigations
- Help with Federal FOIA
- Interpretative Investigative Reporting
- Original Investigative Reporting
- Recognizing A Source's Biases and Agendas
- Reporting on Investigations
- Reporting Tips from Pulitzer Winners
- Rosenbaum Note-Taking Method
- Seven Basic Rules for Investigative Reporting
- Standards for Covering Trials
- The History of the Watchdog Mission
- The Watchdog as Prosecutor
- The Watchdog Misunderstood
- What Did You Really Learn?
Website Journalism Tips
- A Dozen Tips for Writing News Online
- Converting TV Scripts to the Web
- Creating a TV News Website
- Dos and Don'ts of Web Journalism
- Five Rules for Building a Successful Online Community
- How to Report a News Story Online
- Integrating an Online Focus Into Your Newsroom Operations
- Making Money on Your News Content Website
- Nine Steps to Citizen Journalism Online
- OJR's Ethics of Online Journalism
- OJR's Tips for Writing for the Web
- Online Ethics: Paid Promotional Content
- Online Journalism Ethics: A New Frontier
- Online Storytelling Forms
- Precise Online Editing
- Publishing Tools for Online Journalists
- Quality Online Writing
- SF Chronicle's Two Cents Project
- Shooting Better Online Video
- The Internet-TV Connection
- Tips for TV Stations On How to Avoid Copyright Violations On Their Websites
- Using the Web to Cover Politics
- What TV Stations Look for in New Reporters
- Writing Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines for the Web
Writing Story Copy
- A Dozen Tips for Writing News Online
- Connect the Story to Deeper Themes
- Develop Characters
- Find a Hook
- Find the Inherent Structure
- Give Background and History
- Make Every Word Count
- OJR's Tips for Writing for the Web
- Principles of Composition
- Quality Online Writing
- Story Structures
- The Many Sides of a Story
- Writing Clearly on Deadline