Copy Editing Resources on the Internet
Choose any of the links here to get more information related
to teaching the News Editing class.
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Grammar, Style and Punctuation
- Historical
Style Guides
- Check out the 1918 edition of the Elements of Style,
before E.B. White joined William Strunk, as well as the 1908 edition of
The King's English, Second Edition by H.W. Fowler.
- Crusty
Old Slot
Man's Copy
Editing Peeve
Page
- Bill Walsh of the Washington Post's Business
copy desk rants about common editing blunders.
- Purdue
University On-line
Writing Lab
- This site offers overviews and exercises for common grammatical
problems, from dangling modifiers to run-on sentences.
- Grammar
And Style
Notes
- Jack Lynch of the University of Pennsylvania offers "a
miscellany of grammatical rules and exceptions, comments on style, and
suggestions on usage."
- Keith
Ivey's English
Usage Page
- Essays on usage and links to similar sites.
- On-line
English Grammar
- A good place to brush up on the basics.
- Elements
Of Style
- The Web version of the Strunk and White classic.
- Copy
Editors And
Editing Discussion
List
- To learn about this on-line discussion group, send e-mail
to the address in this link, with the following in the body:
information COPYEDITING-L
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Journalism Programs and Copy Editing Syllabi
- Magazine
Copy Editing
- Mindy McAdams, formerly of Time magazine and The Washington
Post, provides a good review of editing for magazines and other media,
as well as links to other Web sites dealing with journalism.
- Copy
Editing Syllabi
- Syllabi posted by News Editing instructors at the University
of Maryland. You can also look over my
syllabus, as well as one from James
Tankard at the University of Texas.
- Academic
Journalism And
Communications Sites
- Links to information on the journalism programs of colleges
and universities on the Internet.
- Poynter
Institute
- Links to news research, organizations, publications,
and schools and institutions.
- Society
Of Professional
Journalists
- Services and archival files.
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Journalism Criticism
- Media
Watchdog
- A wide-ranging collection of links to online media watch
resources, with many devoted to critiquing the accuracy and exposing the
biases of mainstream media.
- Liberty
Tree
- News, notes, commentary and critical writing about the
Mass Media by Jerry Landay, University of Illinois professor and former
ABC News correspondent.
- Columbia
Journalism Review
- Content from the printed publication as well as interactive
features.
- American
Journalism Review
- Journalism resources and back issues.
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Journalism Organizations
- Newspaper
Association Of
America
- Features include hotlinks to all Web papers in North
America; news, reports and commentary on the newspaper industry; and the
New Media Federation, a new live gathering spot for new media professionals.
- Organization
Of News
Ombudsmen
- A forum for the exchange of views and experiences of
ombudsmen worldwide.
- Freedom
Forum First
Amendment Center
- First Amendment issues and breaking news.
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Miscellaneous Journalism Resources
-
Don't Spread
That Hoax!
- A Hewlett-Packard designer lists common virus alerts and urban legends that have spread on the Internet.
- Bruce
Henderson's Journalism
List
- Henderson, a journalism instructor at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, has compiled a list of several good journalism sites,
including several alt.journalism news groups.
- WWW Virtual
Library: Journalism
- Perhaps the most thorough collection of journalism-related
links on the internet, compiled by John Makulowich.
- Rare
And Historical
Newspapers
- The Keigwin and Mathews Collection of Rare and Historical
Newspapers offers copies of some of the rarest and most important early
newspapers in the United States.
- Foundation
for American Communications
- This site offers information on top issues, links to
Internet resources and on-line sources, and lots of reporting tools.
- Communication
Decency Act
Lawsuit
- Read the full text of the complaint filed by the Citizens
Internet Empowerment Coalition, a group that includes the Society of Professional
Journalists, the Newspaper Association of America and the Association of
American Publishers Inc. You can also read the full
text of the Communications Decency Act, check out a
separate complaint filed by the ACLU, or read an overview
of why these lawsuits are so important.
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Last updated 21 July 1997 by Thom Lieb
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