Breaking News! RSS feeds provide real, up-to-the-moment examples and models of news across a variety of beats and help students stay on top of current events that lead them to better story ideas. Stories come from key local and national media outlets throughout the country, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
Exercise Central for AP Style (Updated for 2010). Students can improve their AP writing skills on this database of more than 2,500 exercises that cover not only the 20 most common errors journalism students make but also five other distinctive features of AP style.
Research links connect students to the course and to the contemporary issues surrounding them.
The Bedford Research Room supports students in courses across the disciplines and offers instructors a library of helpful tools.
Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation Online provides students with an annotated list of specialized sources and guidelines for print and online documentation.
For instructors. Online versions of the Instructor’s Manual for Telling the Story, 4e, Working with Words, 7e, and News Reporting and Writing, 10e are available for download.
Video Central Journalism. Students with the appropriate code may access more than two dozen brief clips offering an insider look at the media industries through the eyes of leading professionals including Amy Goodman, Clarence Page, Jim Spencer, and David Herzog. Through these interviews, students will encounter thought provoking discussions on a range of relevant topics in contemporary journalism from convergence to media entrepreneurship to real vs. fake news sources. In addition, several clips help students to gain valuable insight into the interviewing process.