Mass Media & Strategic Communications

From Harvard's Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Presented by the Society of Professional Journalists

Check the veracity of political statements.

Your portal for all sorts of government information.

“News is information that’s required in a democratic society... That sounds corny, but I don’t care whether it sounds corny or not. It’s the truth.”--Jim Lehrer

Stories covered: McCarthyism, Civil Rights, Viet Nam War, Watergate, Corporate Power, and Post 9/11

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.

Providing resources to help the public understand how freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition work, and how these freedoms can be protected.

Booklet from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press which provides free legal help on First Amendment issues to reporters and news organizations.

Providing information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.

The Student Press Law Center works at the intersection of law, journalism and education to promote, support and defend the rights of student journalists and their advisers at the high school and college levels.