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Global Voices is a website that brings together news and blog reports from around the world that you may not find in the traditional media. From the About page:
Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to [...]

The National Communication Association hosted a webinar analyzing the “rhetorical moment” of President Obama’s recent speech on the health care reform debate (video and transcript of Obama’s speech).
The webinar features Vanessa Beasley, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University, Denise Bostdorff, Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster, and Trevor Parry-Giles, Associate Professor [...]

You may have noticed that The Athens News updated their website recently, and its much improved.   One improved component  is the article archive search feature.  Users may search newspaper sections by category or by article title, author and date.  There are also several ways to construct search strategies, such as “exact phrase” and so [...]

From a post this morning on the Two-Way (the NPR News Blog) – via their Twitter Feed, @nprnews.
YouTube has a new Reporter’s Center, which includes videos about reporting for reporters. I’m particularly found of this video about fact checking from PolitiFact’s editor Bill Adair, but you’ll find lots of other [...]

New recommended web resources are continually added InfoTree, Alden Libary’s subject directory for websites, databases and more.
Just added to the directory:
Universal Newsreels
Brief films of current events, from 1929 to 1967, with each film containing several stories, usually one to two minutes in length, covering world events, politics, sports, fashion, and whatever…
Consumer Action
provides a wide range [...]