About Journalist's Resource

Educators at more than 130 schools are already using Journalist’s Resource in the classroom. They teach everywhere from Northwestern, Missouri, Berkeley and Columbia to smaller institutions across the country. Working journalists at outlets large and small also use the database to find research and context on deadline.

See Journalist’s Resource in the news:

• “What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Twitter Philosophies, Dying on Facebook, and the Age of Mobile Media,” Nieman Journalism Lab.
• “Go-to Research Databases Journalists Can Use to Improve their Reporting,” Poynter Institute.
• “Questioning the Network: The Year in Social Media Research,” Nieman Journalism Lab.
• “Do Presidential Debates Typically Matter? Political Scientists Say No,” Washington Post.
• “Sure, Journalists Need to Know Digital Tools, but They Really Need to Know How to Do Digital Research,” Nieman Journalism Lab.
• “Digital Scholarship Allows the Media to Magnify the Power and Reach of Academic Research,” London School of Economics “Impact of Social Sciences” blog.
• “Bicycle Studies Pick Up Speed in Academia,” Pacific Standard.
• “Academia, Meet the Press,” Harvard Gazette.
• “From White Paper to Newspaper: Making Academia More Accessible to Journalists,” Nieman Journalism Lab.
• “Reliable Sources in an Age of Too Much Information,” New York Times, “Dot Earth” blog.
• “Harvard’s Shorenstein Center Launches Research Tool for Journalists,” Romenesko, Poynter.org.
• “Knowledge-based Journalism Is Not an Oxymoron,” Miller-McCune magazine.
• “Journalist’s Resource Brings the Numbers Back to Journalism,” International Journalists’ Network.
• “Science Hacks: Project Distills Papers for a Stressed Press,” Times Higher Education (U.K.)
• “New Journalist’s Resource Website Encourages Reporters to Use Scholarly Research in Their Work,” Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas-Austin.
• “Carnegie-Knight Initiative and Harvard Launch New Journalism Project,” Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
• “New Syllabus for Semester-long Course in Business Journalism Available,” Reynolds Center for National Business Journalism at Arizona State University.

Furthermore, we receive feedback nearly every day about the site; here are just a few of the responses we’ve received:

• “This is a terrific resource. Kudos for developing it. You have some great material.”
  Walter V. Robinson, Northeastern University
• “I love your site. I organize my course around students’ finding their own study and research topic, and that’s where they look at what you have posted on your site. They then write an inverted pyramid news story about the study’s findings. From there they expand their topic and write a short feature and an in-depth feature.”
  Janet Mizrahi, UC Santa Barbara
• “Your syllabus has proved quite helpful — I’m a happy user. I’ve synthesized it liberally with other sources, including a syllabus from a Baruch colleague, and my own concepts from a 45-year career at The New York Times.”
  Ralph Blumenthal, City University of New York
• “I’ve found Journalist’s Resource to be a great tool, both as a reporter and now teaching at Stonehill. And the help I’ve gotten from the folks when I’ve been hunting for information has been terrific.”
  Maureen Boyle, Stonehill College