Markdown Tutorial
http://markdowntutorial.com

For those who find HTML to be excessively verbose, brittle to construct, and difficult to read, Markdown can provide a simpler alternative. In essence, it is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web content writers that is modeled on well-written email so it is both easy to read and easy to write. Users considering a switch to Markdown (plugins exist to use Markdown for a variety of content management software, including Drupal and WordPress), will find this tutorial a great place to start. Each lesson begins by introducing a single Markdown concept and offers a sandbox for practice. Once the concept is mastered, users can proceed to the next (there are seven in total). For writers concerned more with content than design and who are looking to learn a simple formatting solution, this is a wonderful resource. This will be Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2015. https://www.scout.wisc.edu

Anewstip – Find Journalists By What They Tweet
http://anewstip.com/

Powered by all the tweets since 2006 from more than 1 million journalist & media outlets. Features include: a) Search for relevant journalists – Search through 1 billion+ real-time and historical tweets (since 2006, when Twitter was born) from 1 million+ journalists and media outlets, to find out all the relevant media contacts that have talked about your product, your business, your competitors, or any other keywords in your industry; b) Monitor new tweets – Anewstip Alerts allows you to monitor journalists and media outlets’ Twitter timelines for new tweets that mention your product, your business, your competitors, or any other keywords you care about, on an hourly, daily or weekly basis; c) Organize contacts in Media lists – Organize your journalists and outlets in lists like spreadsheets. Add profiles to lists from search with one click – no more copy and paste. You can also download a full copy as an Excel file whenever you want; and d) Pitch journalists with one click – The Pitch feature allows you to email one or hundreds of journalists and media outlets with one click. You can also track the open rate, and find out which contacts have opened your message. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™.

The Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting
http://verificationhandbook.com/book2/

The Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting is a new guide to online search and research techniques to using user-generated content and open source information in investigations. Published by the European Journalism Centre, a GIJN member based in the Netherlands, the manual consists of ten chapters and is available for free download. This will be added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™. [Thanks to Sabrina Pacifici for this excellent find]

Tools for Writers
http://snipurl.com/29yw567

A list of handy tools for bloggers and writers to write better. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™.

Writrsbloc – A Writing Community Rough Draft
http://writrsbloc.com/

There’s a world full of writers looking for inspiration, critique, and community. Writrsbloc provides all three. The best sentences, assembled, and the best writers, gathered. They are building an online space for the web’s best writing and most talented writers. Here’s an early look at what it could include. Join today, and help shape Writrsbloc. Features include: a) SHARE YOUR WORK – Build a portfolio of your best sentences and find compelling inspiration in the work of others; b) EDIT ON DEMAND – Algorithmic editing, inspired by classic rules & history’s best writers. Tradition meets avant-garde; c) ANALYZE YOUR IMPACT – Word count. Page views. Social shares. Quantify your voice, your style, and your influence; and d) FIND FREELANCE WORK – Locate the next best gig. Find startups, media, and corporate clients looking for top-notch talent. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™.

Awareness Watch Talk Show for Saturday June 27, 2015 at 2:00pm EDT – Journalism Resources
http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AwarenessWatch/

This program will be featuring my Subject Tracer™ titled Journalism Resources. We will be highlighting the latest and greatest journalism sources covering search engines, subject directories, articles, guides and tracers – literally everything needed on the World Wide Web for JOURNALISM!!! We will also discussing my latest freely available Awareness Watch Newsletter V13N6 June 2015 featuring two reports: Financial Sources for the Family Office and Crowd Finding Resources 2015 and my freely available June 2015 Zillman Column highlighting Resources for Extracting Information from the World Wide Web. You may call in to ask your questions at (718)508-9839. The show is live and thirty minutes in length starting at 2:00pm EST on Saturday, June 27, 2015 and then archived for easy review and access. Listen, Call and Enjoy!!

LLRX> Journalism Resources On the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/journalismresources2015.htm

Marcus P. Zillman’s new guide is a selective, comprehensive bibliography of reliable, subject specific and actionable sources of journalism resources and sites for researchers in all sectors. This guide will support your goal to discover new sources, refresh your acquaintance with sources you know but that have evolved, and provide additional strategic methods to locate and leverage information in your work. Site is also available at http://www.JournalismResources.info/ . Published by LLRX on June 6, 2015.

Open Government Guide
http://www.rcfp.org/open-government-guide

The Open Government Guide is a complete compendium of information on every state’s open records and open meetings laws. Each state’s section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states. If you’re a new user of this guide, be sure to read the Introductory Note and User’s Guide. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information B

Updated> Journalism Resources White Paper Link Dataset Compilation
http://www.JournalismResources.info/

The above is the associated white paper link dataset compilation of the Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 23 page .pdf document 223KB. [Updated on May 25, 2015] Other white papers are available by clicking here.

Journalist’s Resource – Research On Todays News Topic
http://journalistsresource.org/

Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Journalist’s Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. They surface scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Their philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. In 2013 the American Library Association named them one of the best free reference Web sites. Their weekly email and Twitter feed serve to highlight the latest studies from academia that can inform public discourse. Given the deluge of research output every day, they aim to be a useful curator. Their searchable database contains top academic and governmental research that they have selected and synthesized. They strive to translate complex statistics into clear data points and reformulate the terminology of academic specialists into more accessible language, without sacrificing rigor or nuance. While they can’t provide access to the full text of every study, they try to provide at least a point of entry and highlight key points — and they encourage media members to contact the authors of the research directly. They invite all those interested in policy and public affairs to use the site’s materials, in particular instructors, students and journalists. No registration is required; the materials are free and are under a Creative Commons license. This will be added to Journalism Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.