Some of my favorite links
Writing And Language Resources
Journalism Resources
Center for Investigative Reporting
Conducting and supporting investigative journalism since 1977.
Includes the valuable CJR Daily.
"Nonpartisan, nonprofit, consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."
New York Times Newsroom Navigator
The best internet-searching-for-journalists primer I've ever seen, courtesy of the Times.
Ombudsmaning the Times.
NPR's indispensable weekly program.
Jack Shafer's media column at Slate.
Project for Excellence in Journalism
Comprehensive resource.
Journalistic mistakes as an art form.
"Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge."
Free tool for designing, conducting and analyzing online surveys.
A plethora of information and tools--plus Scanlan, Romenesko, and Clark.
Brings documents to light.
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Writing And Language Resources
Copyediting and proofreading symbols.
Still useful after all these years.
Type or paste in some text, and this site will predict--with remarkable accuracy--whether it was written by a man or woman.
Astonishing collection of online books.
Outstanding blog on language issues.
Click on "tips" for wise advice from an award-winning writer.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Excellent collection of exercises and documents.
The date-submitted and thumbs-up/down data make this site tremendously useful.
Interactive presentation of the 86,800 most commonly used English words.
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Choice Destinations
Guess people's ages, or have your own age guessed.
More age guessing.
Mark Bittman's food blog at nytimes.com.
The Magliozzi brothers on the web.
Clive Thompson's valuable observations and reporting on technology, society, and other topics.
No comment.
Tim Burke's smart blog.
Dedicated, in every sense of the word, to The New Yorker.
Essential Dylan website.
Company by company guide to getting a human being on the phone.
On using Asian letters to create gibberish tattoos.
The best critic out there.
His "Spectator" columns from Slate.
With links to her NY Times column.
A cover song database.
The best site for scoping out the truth behind urban legends.
The blog of TV critic David Bianculli.
The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
Just what it says.
Virginia Heffernan's convergence blog at the New York Times.