Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

A global independent research and educational organization that roots out aggressive or unusual accounting practices from financial documents of more than 3,600 publicly traded companies it monitors. The group parlays that information into training for the institutional investment, insurance, corporate, legal and regulatory communities, but, needless to say, can also prove a resource to business journalists. (Subscription service)

* Center for Media and Public Affairs

Link

* CIO Bookmark

Web sites for busy CIOs

*Committee of Concerned Journalists

www.concernedjournalists.org
The Committee of Concerned Journalists is a consortium of journalists, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession.

* The Corporate Library

An independent research firm that provides data and analysis on corporate governance.

* Credit Ratings

Standard & Poor's

Moody's Investors Service

Dun & Bradstreet

* Curka Personal Finance Forum

An online financial community where members can interact and share business/finance tips

* Editorial Matters

Intro to business writing

* FACSNET

Covering Business

Journalists Guide to Economic Terms

Recent Backgrounders

Reading Financial Statements

* Factiva

Online database jointly offered by Dow Jones and Reuters of stories from their newswires and The Wall Street Journal. It offers alerts as well, but requires a subscription.

* Federal Reserve Bank of New York

A site for monetary policy and current foreign exchange rates, and it links to the New York Fed's home page.

* FindRFP

Online service that searches and retrieves Requests for Proposals that local, state and federal governments release to initiate public contracts with commercial companies.

* Footnoted.org

Daily blog on reading SEC filings and footnotes to catch manipulation and avoid the second coming of the Enrons and WorldComs.

* Free Edgar files

http://www.freeedgar.com

* Glass, Lewis & Co.

An analytical research firm that evaluates the corporate and financial integrity of companies.

* Google Alert

Performs daily automated Google searches based on key words, company names or stock symbols you enter, and then sends you results by e-mail.

* Harvard Business Review

Monthly business magazine published by the Harvard Business School.

* Hoovers Online

Good site to check first to find out basic company information

* InfoUSA

A purveyor of various business and consumer lists and reports.

* Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Backgrounders on business beats

Globalizing business coverage

Internet business reporting tips

Business writing tips 1 of 2

Business writing tips 2 of 2

Business writing ethics

* International Women's Media Foundation

Tips for Business reporters

* The Internet Society

The organization that sets standards for the Internet.

* Investigative Reporters and Editors

The group for investigative journalists. Their site has an online database that lets you search for previously published articles about any journalistic topic.

* Investopedia

Site that contains a business dictionary and tutorials.

* Jonathan Oatis guide to business journalism sites

http://www.oatis.com/bageht.htm

Guide to getting public records online

* Journalismnet.com Business Journalism Tools

http://www.journalismnet.com/business/tools.htm

* JournalismTraining.org: Searchable database of professional development opportunities (i.e. seminars, conferences, workshops, among others) for journalists.

http://www.journalismtraining.org

* Knight Center for Specialized Journalism

Business Journalism links

* Knowledge@Wharton

Biweekly business analysis and insight.

* Lexis Nexis

Online database of newspaper articles, court records and patent applications. This is a subscription service.

* Media ethics online

A list maintained by journalist and Internet trainer Staci D. Kramer.

* Money Tree Survey

Quarterly study of U.S. venture capital investment activity.

* Motley Fool

The Fool's explanation of the difference between diluted and basic financial earnings.

* Museum of American Financial History

http://www.financialhistory.org/

26 Broadway, Room 947

New York , NY 10004

Phone: 212.908.4519

Toll Free: 877.98.FINANCE

Fax: 212.908.4601

* National Consumers League

http://www.natlconsumersleague.org

* National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting

http://www.nicar.org/

* National Press Club

Site contains links, headlines, and resources for journalists.

* National Yellow Pages, White Pages, and 800-number directories

Superpages.GTE

Infospace

Switchboard.com/ (comprehensive online and phone listing)

Whowher.com

Bigyellow.com

* New York Financial Writers Association

Click on links of interest

* The New York Times

Investment, markets and banking resource guide

* New York University

New York University Business and Economic Reporting links

* Oxford University

List of businesses, governments and groups

* PACER Service Center (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)

Electronic public access service that allows you to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. Note: This services charges 7 cents per viewed, downloaded or printed page, OR 60 cents per minute to access a dial-up PACER system.

* Personal finance and real estate news and information

Quicken.com

Homeowners.com Countrywide.com

Inman.com

* Power Reporting

Resources for business beat

* Poynter Institute

Site The Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders.

* Profnet Database of experts

Database

* PR Newswire for Journalists

Site for accessing breaking news from companies, government agencies and other institutions, including an archive.

* Reuters Foundation

http://www.foundation.reuters.com/

85 Fleet Street

London EC4P 4AJ

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)20 7542 7015

Fax: +44 (0)20 7542 8599

E-mail

* Reverse Phone Directory

* Search Engines

* Stanford University

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

* Statistical Abstract of the United States

Compilation of statistics published by the U.S. Census Bureau

* Techweb Encyclopedia

Techweb.com

* Telephone Directories Worldwide

A list of phone directories that you can find in nearly any country, plus comment and access to every directory from Argentina to Yemen.

* Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

This site has a complex name, but a simple objective: To gather data and collect records, using Freedom of Information requests, to track federal staffing, spending and law enforcement activities. TRAC is a research center at Syracuse University.

* University of Maryland

Business reporter's toolbox

* University of Missouri

The Center for the Digital Globe Web site has links to business resources:

* WaybackMachine.org

Site for searching archived versions of Web sites before they are updated, as far back as seven years ago. This is useful in finding years-old press releases and annual reports, or bios of former executives.

* World Bank Institute

Tips for business journalists

Business story ideas

ANALYST FIRMS ^ top

Aberdeen Group: value chain and technology

Allied Business Intelligence: wireless, telecom, automotive, fuel cells/energy, semiconductors, security

AMR Research: enterprise software industry

Arlen Communications: interactive media, digital TV, convergence, e-commerce, telecommunications

ARS: broadband, wireless, networking, audio & visual, PCs and peripherals

In-Stat/MDR: semiconductors and advanced communications equipment and services

comScore Networks: online consumer behavior

Current Analysis: telecom, IT, e-business, PC hardware, consumer technology

Datamonitor: automotive, transport, food/beverage/tobacco, energy, consumer products, health care/pharmaceuticals

IDC: information technology and telecom

Forrester: technology

Frost & Sullivan: technology

Gartner: technology

Input: technology, government and higher education

Jupiter Research: broadband, online behavior, site technology, digital TV, personal technology, wireless

Morningstar: investment activity, stocks, funds and variable annuities

New Paradigm Resources Group: telecommunications

Probe Group: telecommunications, wireless, Internet, IT/computing

Soundview Technology Group: technology, media, telecom, health care (Recently announced to be acquired by Charles Schwab)

Summit Strategies: investments

TeleChoice: technology, telecom

Value Line: stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options, convertibles, annual investment survey

W.R. Hambrecht & Co.: financial services, Internet-based auctions

Yankee Group: technology communications and networking

ZapThink: Web services, XML, service orientation

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