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Journalism Resources

Associations & Organizations

  • Investigative Reporters & Editors: Investigative Reporters and Editors is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of journalism. We educate, empower and connect journalists across the globe, so we can live in a better, more informed world.
  • Poynter Institute: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Network.
  • Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own. 
  • National Press Photographers Association: The National Press Photographers Association is an American professional association made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field.
  • News Leaders Association (Formerly known as American Society of News Editors: The American Society of News Editors) The American Society of News Editors focuses on leadership development and journalism-related issues. Founded in 1922 as a nonprofit professional organization, ASNE promotes fair, principled journalism, defends and protects First Amendment rights, and fights for freedom of information and open government. Leadership, innovation, diversity and inclusion in coverage and the journalism work force, opinion journalism, news literacy and the sharing of ideas are also key ASNE initiatives. Members can be editors, producers or directors in charge of journalistic organizations or departments; opinion journalists; deans or faculty at university journalism schools; leaders and faculty of media-related foundations and training organizations and other individuals at the board’s discretion. A committee of the board of directors reviews applications for membership. ASNE’s members are individuals, and its board is elected by members. Many of ASNE’s initiatives are carried out by its committees. It also operates projects coordinated by staff with advice from committees and the board. The organization was known as the American Society of Newspaper Editors until 2009.
  • Overseas Press Club of America: The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was war correspondent Peggy Hull.
  • Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) :The Radio Television Digital News Association, formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association, is a United States-based membership organization of radio, television, and online news directors, producers, executives, reporters, students and educators.
  • Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders, also known as Reporters sans frontières, is a leading international non-profit and non-governmental organization that safeguards the right to freedom of information. Its mandate is to promote free, independent and pluralistic journalism and to defend media workers.
  • Society for News Design: The Society for News Design is an international organization for professionals working in the news sector of the media industry, specifically those involved with graphic design, illustration, web design and infographics. 
  • Society of Professional Journalists: The Society of Professional Journalists, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. 

Training & Resources

  • Committee to Protect Journalists: The Committee to Protect Journalists is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, New York with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists.
  • Freedom Forum: The Freedom Forum is a nonprofit organization that runs the First Amendment Center and the Newseum Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Freedom Forum is also the creator and parent organization to the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
  • Freedom House: Freedom House is a U.S.-based 501 U.S. government-funded non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. Freedom House was founded in October 1941, and Wendell Willkie and Eleanor Roosevelt served as its first honorary chairpersons.
  • The Journalist’s Resource: For journalists, academic research is an essential tool for thwarting misinformation, holding policymakers accountable, generating story ideas, bolstering investigative reporting projects and shedding light on solutions to societal problems. Yet many journalists aren’t sure how to identify high-quality research or use it in their reporting. Often, they are not trained to identify problems in research or explain findings and research terms to lay audiences. They don’t have time to sift through academic journals and read lengthy journal articles, and may not know how to make sense of academic jargon. And their source lists don’t always include scholars with specific expertise on the topics they cover.
  • Nieman Journalism Lab: The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal.
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that provides pro bono legal services and resources to and on behalf of journalists.
  • Student Press Law Center: The Student Press Law Center is a non-profit organization in the United States that aims to protect press freedom rights for student journalists at high school and university student newspapers.
  • U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a new website dedicated to documenting press freedom abuses across the United States. The site serves as a repository for data at a time when journalists in the U.S. are facing obstruction, threats, hostility, legal charges, assault, and other forms of harassment.

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