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Web Sites for Reporters

The Specialized Information Publishers Association has suggested that these are web sites to add to your ?Must See? List for reporters... which has a lot of use for libraries to know where these folks hang out. It's an interesting view into the research world of other information pros.

UCG Editorial Director Lisa Getter suggests these Websites as part of the Internet reference file every reporter should keep:

Social Networks

http://www.facebook.com

http://www.linkedin.com

Search Engines

http:www.google.com

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

http://clusty.com/

http: //www.zuula.com/

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=links

http://www.alltheweb.com/

Blog Searches

http://blogsearch.google.com/

http://www.blogpulse.com/

http://www.bloglines.com/

http://www.topix.net/blogs

http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/

http://www.technorati.com/

Court Records

http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

http://dockets.justia.com/

http://www.virtualchase.com/video/pacer/pacer.html

http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html

Sites Every Reporter Should Know

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp (inmate locator)

http://www.archive.org/index.php (old web site pages)

http://numbrary.com/ (statistics)

http://www.switchboard.com/ (phone numbers)

http://www.info.gov/phone.htm (government phones)

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

http://www.guidestar.org/ (non-profits)

http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm (SEC info)

http://www.secinfo.com/

http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm (backgrounding guide)

http://www.pipl.com/ (great people finder)

http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/home.html (everything you need)

http://www.statelocalgov.net/50states-secretary-state.cfm

http://www.allwhois.com/ (domain lookup)

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp (domain lookup)

http://publicrecords.netronline.com/ (property records)

http://www.virtualchase.com/ (research site)

E-tools

http://alphabetizer.flap.tv/index.php (alphabetize your lists)

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl (inflation calculator)

http://www.indo.com/distance/ (distance calculator)

http://www.scribd.com/word/full/1036413?access_key=key-1o0zlyyepyqnp269to1c (social networking and other Web 2.0 sites)

Training Sites

http://www.businessjournalism.org/

http://www.notrain-nogain.org/

http://www.ire.org/

http://www.newsu.org/

http://www.knightnewmediacenter.org/
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Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).