Communication Studies 311A:
Editing and Design
Fall 2002
Course Resource Links
News Sources on the World Wide Web
Don't subscribe to a newspaper but looking for an easy way to keep up on what's
happening in the world? The answer is as close as the nearest computer keyboard.
Hundreds of news organizations publish web sites that feature up-to-the-minute
news. Here's an alphabetical sampling of what's out there:
ABC News | AP
Breaking News | AP
Top News | AP
Washington News | The Boston
Globe | CBS News
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
| The Chicago Tribune |
CNN | The
Daily Iowan | The Des Moines
Register
Des Moines Today
| The Iowa State Daily |
Kansas City Star | The
Los Angeles Times | London
Telegraph
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
| MSNBC | The
Nando Times | The New York
Daily News | The New York
Post
The New York Times
| The Simpsonian | The
Times of London | The Washington
Post
USA Today | The
Washington Times
Other Resources for Editing and Design Students
- American Journalism Review
- American Copy Editors Society:
Provides access to great editing resources.
- Breaking
into Copy Editing: How can you get an entry-level copy editing position?
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Copy Editing Research/Resource
Files: From the Poynter Institute, I guarantee this collection of writings
will help you do a better job in this course.
- Copy Editor: Language News for
the Publishing Profession: An award-winning newsletter published in
New York City. About 2,500 publishing companies subscribe to Copy Editor.
Some individuals subscribe as well. All told, more than 10,000 people read
Copy Editor. Has links and job listings for copy editors.
- Copy
editors: Robots, bastards or saviors? It's really up to you.
- The Editorial Eye: The Eye
is a resource for writers, editors, designers, project managers, communications
specialists, and everyone else who cares about contemporary publishing
practices. Any aspect of effective printed, electronic, visual, or spoken
communication is likely to appear as a topic in the Eye.
- The Elements
of Style: William Strunk wrote this little handbook for his students
at Columbia University in 1918. It remains a wonderfully concise guide
for students who are interested in becoming better writers.
- Howard
Kurtz: Kurtz is the Washington Post's writer on media issues. He often
tackles stories of interest to editors. Click on his name for a frequent
update on his work.
- In Search
of the Perfect Copy Editor: 10 Copy Editor Traits That Guarantee You Success:
From the Poynter Institute.
- Thom Lieb's
Editing Page: Lieb is the author of our text, and his site provides
a lot of editing-related links.
- New York Times
News Quiz: Oh yeah... Those pesky news quizzes that you loved in Beginning
Newswriting and Reporting are still a part of our coursework. Here's a
New York Times site that provides a daily quiz. How do you stack up?
- Roget's
Thesaurus: Don't have Roget's and need to find a better way to express
tired ideas? You're in luck. The famous thesaurus is now online.
- The Seven
Deadly Copy Editing Sins: From the Poynter Institute.
- The Slot: I love it! A regularly
published Internet newsletter just for copy editors! Yes, they are people
too.
- Wait! Wait! Don't Tell
Me!: A weekly news quiz from National Public Radio. (Getting the idea
that the prof is big on news quizzes?)\
- The WED Concept:
We'll talk about the Writing-Editing-Design Concept in this course. Here's
a WED site mounted by the folks at the Poynter Institute, who invented
the thing.
- Writing Headlines:
Some more pointers from Poynter, this time on writing attention-grabbing
and interesting and informative headlines.
And Much More...