June 4, 2010 at 8:02 am · Filed under sources for reporting
When was that law passed? And what does it say? Don’t know. Well, you have the Internet as your answer and here are my best suggestions for searching information for free on the Internet.
If you know others or especially in other languages, please let me know;.
Internet search connections
http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
http://www.infospace.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.metasearch.com
For sources and updates—also Google and Yahoo alerts
https://profnet.prnewswire.com/
http://www.clusty.com
http://www.ipl.org/div/askus/
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
http://www.brbpub.com/default.asp
http://www.census.gov/
Grand slam searchers
http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/nettour/
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/
http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/tools
Finding People
http://pipl.com/
http://www.123people.com/
http://www.biznar.com
http://www.mednar.com
http://www.blinkz.com
Searching for domain owners
http://www.allwhois.com
http://www.domaintools.com
http://www.quarkbase.com
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php (the wayback machine)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html
http://wiki.kenburbary.com/
http://www.coveritlive.com
http://mashable.com/2009/08/03/facebook-journalism/
Stephen Franklin, steve@newstips.org, cell-773-595-89667
http://chicagoistheworld.org/
A doorway to ethnic media in the American Heartland
May 19, 2009 at 7:24 pm · Filed under mortgage crisis, sources for reporting
Where do they go, the new nomads? What happens to the families who’ve lost their homes in foreclosure?
What happens to the families who have to flee their apartments when the buildings’ owners go bankrupt?
They wander. They search for cheap housing. They double up. They crowd into places where they left years ago.
The tide of humanity shifting about the Chicago area because of the mortgage crisis was clearly laid out by Geoff Smith of the Woodstock Insitute at the briefing we just held.
So what can the ethnic news media do?
It can write about the families dumped into the housing market. It can track the greater losses suffered by blacks and Latinos in Chicago, losses that swell in neighborhoods like Austin and Lawndale, and it can show how community groups are trying to deal with the crisis.
As Andrea Frye of the National Training and Information Center explained, the problem is only getting worse and more complex. Her organization is a good source if you are writing about this.
http://www.ntic-us.org/
So, too, the Woodstock Institute has date and experts that you can use to make a human story truly important. Their website:
http://www.woodstockinst.org/
And here is a page one story from the New York Times about how the foreclosure crisis is worse for blacks and Hispanics in the New York City. But the way I read the figures, the losses are even greater here in the Chicago area.
http://tinyurl.com/ou9opx
