Since 1961, the Columbia Journalism Review has served as one of America’s premier media watchdogs. Now the magazine’s website has just gotten a much-needed redesign, and includes several useful tools for journalists.
Perhaps the best feature of the site is the searchable archive dating back to 1991. The archived content is still being transferred over to the new design, though, so to find issues before 2003 you need to go to http://archives.cjr.org for now.
The site’s new Journalism Tools section is also worth checking out. It includes:
Who Owns What: CJR’s Web guide to what the major media companies own, which is maintained by Ithaca College professor Aaron Moore. This section also includes links to CJR articles about media ownership.
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
The Language Corner: A collection of language usage tips from CJR‘s Evan Jenkins, conveniently organized by topic and parts of speech, covering everything from adverb placement to the proper use of “which.”
http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/
Inflation calculator : Use this form to convert dollars from a past year into recent year dollars, adjusted for inflation. The calculator was created using data from Professor Robert Sahr of the Oregon State University Political Science Department.
http://www.cjr.org/tools/inflation/
The site also includes links to two useful CJR-affiliate sites: PowerReporting.com and the excellent collection of “Smarter Surfing” links from my Web Tips partner Sree Sreenivasan.
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