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Online References (dictionaries etc)
Strunk, William. The Elements of Style: http://www.bartleby.com/141/
Fowler HW 1908 The King's English: http://www.bartleby.com/116/
ARTFL Project Roget's Thesaurus: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
A Web of Online Dictionaries: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Biographical Dictionary: http://www.s9.com/biography/
Electric Editors Homepage: http://www.electriceditors.net
Translation: http://translate-free.com/
Weasel Words – spot the gibbberish: http://www.weaselwords.com.au/index3.htm

Media news & analysis
Accuracy in Media (USA): http://www.aim.org/
American Journalism Review: http://ajr.org/
American Press Institute: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org
Australian Centre for Independent Journalism: http://acij.uts.edu.au/
Australian Communications & Media Authority: http://www.acma.gov.au
Australian newspaper Media section: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/media/
Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org
Crikey: http://www.crikey.com.au
Editor & Publisher (USA): http://www.editorandpublisher.com/
Fair.org (USA news monitor): http://www.fair.org
Iwantmedia.com (interesting USA industry hub): http://www.iwantmedia.com/
Journalism.org: http://www.journalism.org
Media Channel .org: http://www.mediachannel.org/
Media Watch (ABC): http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/
Newseum (USA): http://www.newseum.org/
Online Journalism Review: http://www.ojr.org
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: http://people-press.org
Poynter: http://www.poynter.org
Radio National media report: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/
Society for News Design: http://www.snd.org/
The State of American Media (report): http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2005/index.asp
World Editors Forum weblog http://www.editorsweblog.org/

Industry links
Australian Internet Industry Association: http://www.iia.net.au/
Australian Publishers Association: http://publishers.asn.au/
Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association: http://www.caama.com.au/
Community Broadcasting Association Australia: http://www.cbaa.org.au/
Commercial Radio Australia: http://www.commercialradio.com.au/
Community Television Australia: http://www.ctva.com.au
Federation Internationale de la Presse Périodique (magazines): http://www.fipp.com/
International Federation of Journalists: http://www.ifj.org/
International Press Institute: http://www.freemedia.at/
International Women's Media Foundation: http://www.iwmf.org/
Magazine Publishers of Australia: http://www.magazines.org.au
Magazine publishers, UK: http://www.ppa.co.uk/
Magazine publishers, USA: http://www.magazine.org/home/
Media Alliance (Australia): http://www.alliance.org.au
Online Publishers Association: http://www.online-publishers.org/
Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association: http://www.panpa.org.au/
Regional TV Marketing (Aust) http://www.regionaltvmarketing.com.au/
Reporters Sans Frontiers (english version): http://www.rsf.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20
Trauma - tips on covering traumatic events: http://www.dartcenter.org/tips_tools/index.html
World Association of Newspapers http://www.wan-press.org/

Audience measurement (commercial sites)
Roy Morgan (general): http://www.roymorgan.com
Audit Bureau (print circulation): http://www.auditbureau.org.au (very limited resources)
AC Neilsen (general): http://www.nielsenmedia.com/

Law & ethics
Interview guidelines: interviewguide.html
Media Alliance (Australia) code of ethics: http://www.alliance.org.au/documents/codeofethics.pdf
Articles from law firm Minter Ellison
Reporter's law guide -- (PDF -- defamation section is out of date, see link below)
New uniform defamation laws 2006 -- (PDF)
Think before you deep link 2006
Minter Ellison copyright newsletter
User-generated content -- see: http://www.ugcprinciples.com/

Review of the adequacy of ABC Editorial Policies relating to source protection -- 2007 (offers excellent research links) -- click here

General resources
Australian Bureau of Statistics: http://www.abs.gov.au/
Adobe Acrobat reader: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
The web's Swiss army knife - useful for opening all sorts of things, such as e-zines and large web documents.
National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/home.html
PollyMail: Our national listing of state & federal politicians plus Hansard for all parliaments
Social research – a non-profit institute: http://www.sirc.org/
Social research – Centre for Independent Studies: http://www.cis.org.au/

Web Design and HTML
Jakob Nielsen, web function hard-liner: http://www.useit.com
Yale style guide: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
O'Reilly web resources: http://web.oreilly.com/
NCSA beginner guide to HTML: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
HTML tutorial: http://www2.utep.edu/~kross/tutorial/
Webcom HTML resources guide: http://www.webcom.com/webcom/html/
Creating killer websites online - http://www.killersites.com/
WDVL: the illustrated encyclopedia of web technology: http://www.wdvl.com/
A different take on the presentation of web searches, by map: http://www.kartoo.com/

Student research
Media research by students at LTU - click here
Media research starter page from La Trobe University library -- click here

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