International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulation (IFABC)
http://ifabc.org/data/country-specific-circulation-data The association for auditors ABC and BPA around the world, has launched a free online database that provides headline circulation data for newspapers from 34 countries for the first time. This contains circulation data for key national newspapers for the last couple of years, allowing broad trends in circulation to be tracked. The website […]
Zapaday
http://www.zapaday.com/home/ has launched a news service that publishes breaking future news headlines. The service uses real time analysis of online news and Twitter texts to spot upcoming headlines as they emerge. The site also has a large free news calendar and events service. Events include national holidays and sporting events. See more on the methodology […]
New York Times Archive
We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms. This resource is displayed on the A-Z database list. For more information see http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/n/new-york-times
Free data journalism handbook
Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A book which introduces you to the basics of data journalism: uses real life case studies from international news rooms. Go behind the scenes at the Guardian data blog. http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/in_the_newsroom_3.html
Measuring Peace in the Media 2011
The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide. Its latest publication analyses global TV networks coverage of peace and conflict. The full 42 page text can be downloaded from the website: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Measuring-Peace-in-the-Media-2011-Report.pdf Its Global Peace Index ranks 153 nations according to 23 dimensions of […]
EUScreen
Free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. http://www.euscreen.eu/
The Riots Communities and Victims Panel: Interim report
Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition established the Riots Communities and Victims Panel. You can read the interim report of the panel at http://www.5daysinaugust.co.uk/ Other useful sites on this topic include: London Recovers […]
Internet and news media
How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/tablet A report from the Pew Research Centre for Excellence in Journalism. Focuses on the USA. The Pew site is also a good source of information on the impact of the internet on the media. They have a weekly New Media index. […]
BFI new historic film clip site
http://beta.bfi.org.uk/ BBC/ BFI launch the beta site of historic film online archive – The Reel History of Britain. The site includes features films from the BFI and film archives around the UK. This complements the BBC series of the same name of over 120 non-fiction films permanently available online. These are themed in collections such as […]
Global Voices Online
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/egypt-protests-2011/
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