Computer Assisted Reporting Links
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These sites are culled from the 2002 IRE conference. Most of them come from three sources. You can view the pages, which include descriptions of the links. They are Alan Schlein's Deadlineonline.com, Sreenath Srenivasan's Sree.Net and Paul Grabowicz's guide to Computer Assisted Reporting. There is more to post and these need to be cleaned up and
better organized.
In the meantime, this will allow you to click through them and get
acquainted
with resources you may not have been aware existed. The key is to
play with them before you need them on deadline. |
SEARCH ENGINES
SEARCH THE WEB OF THE PAST
PHONE DIRECTORIES
Telephone Directories on the Web
PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
NETR Real Estate Research and Information
Peelle Management
Corporation's
National Recorders Directory
PROPERTY OWNERSHIP
Portico
- Real Estate Online Assessors
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
CLEAR's Directory of Boards of Professional and Occupational Licensure
LAWYERS
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
DOCTORS
American Medical Association - Physician Select
Association of
State
Medical Board Executive Directors - DocFinder
PILOT’S LICENSES AND AIRCRAFT OWNERSHIP
FEDERAL JUDGES
Judges of the
United
States Courts
OTHER PROFESSIONS
Yahoo!
- Business Organizations: Professional
BUSINESS RECORDS
National Association of Secretaries of State
Pacific Information Resources - California Counties
Better Business Bureau - Check out a Company
Hoover's - Search by Company Name
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
CorporateInformation.com(for
privately held companies) (for
publicly traded companies)
UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE FILINGS
NON-PROFITS
Portico
- State Non-Profit Databases
COURT RECORDS
Stanford Law
School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
VITAL RECORDS
Where
to Write for Vital Records
VOTER REGISTRATION RECORDS
MOTOR VEHICLE RECORDS
MILITARY RECORDS
National Personnel
Records
Center - Military Personnel Records
WEB SITE REGISTRATION
POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Campaign
Finance Information Center
OTHER RESOURCES
BRB Publications - Free Internet Access to Public Records
EMAIL FINDERS and DOMAIN NAME LOCATORS:
REVERSE DIRECTORIES
YELLOW PAGES:
INTERNATIONAL YELLOW PAGES:
CHATTING SEARCHER:
LEGAL:
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
DOCTORS:
COLLEGE ALUMNI:
COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY WEBSITE LINKS:
SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE'S HOME PAGES:
FAMILY FINDERS:
AREA CODE FINDERS:
National Telephone
&
Communications Tele-Locator
ZIP CODE FINDER:
EXPERT FINDERS:
READY REFERENCE TOOLS:
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY READY REFERENCE COLLECTION
BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
OTHER VALUABLE CALCULATORS & USEFUL TOOLS:
Poynter Institute's Nora Paul's list of cool calculators
DRIVING DISTANCE BETWEEN CITIES
ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
FACT PORTALS
RESEARCH HELP
STATISTICAL & MATH HELP
Niles Guide to Data on the Internet
ONLINE MAPS
FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES
PUBLIC RECORDS HELP
Search Systems' Public Records
MEDICAL INFO
MULTIPLE SEARCHES
TRANSLATING WEB SITES
WHEN YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT A TOPIC
ONLINE TUTORIALS
TRACKING RUMORS
MULTIPLE RESEARCH TOOLS
Business Stuff
Niles Guide to Data on the Internet: access stats of all kinds
Baruch
Prof. Joshua Mills & his links for business journalists
Journalism Stuff — Part I: Finding Sources
Media Link: directory of sources
Facsnet: news backgrounders and
sources
FINDING REAL PEOPLE
REPORTING TIPS
PowerReporting.com: Pulitzer-winner Bill Dedman's suggestions
Reporter's Desktop: Suggestions from Duff Wilson of the Seattle Times
Baruch Prof. Joshua Mills & his links for business journalists
Jeremy Caplan's Web Tips: from an editor at Yahoo! Internet Life
MEDIA GOINGS-ON
TRANSCRIPTS
Vanderbilt Television News
Archive
REPORTING TIPS
I Want Media plenty of media
info
+ layoffs tracker
Cyberjournalist.net's tips
and talk for a wired world
SPJ's FOIA Resource Center: all
about
the Freedom of Info Act
JOB HUNTING
TRACKING FLIGHTS
Killing Pop-up
Ads:
hate 'em, hate 'em
NMSU's Susan Beck & the Web info evaluation guide
AJR on
journalists
and Web information
Poynter's Al Tompkins &
his Web reporting tips for journalists
SPJ's Staci
Kramer
& her tips for deadline surfing
Reuters's Jon Oatis & his links
for
journalists
Univ. South
Carolina guide to basic searching
INTERVIEWING
NEWS SEARCHES