Newspaper Writing Resources

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (1997-98 ed.)
This work first appeared in 1993. It was most recently revised in November of 2020 to take account of a new edition of The Bluebook (the 21st). Like all prior revisions this one included a thorough review of the relevant rules of appellate practice of federal and state courts. The guide also takes account of the latest editions of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (2017), published in 2015, and The Supreme Court’s Style Guide. Point-by-point, it is linked to the free citation guide, The Indigo Book. As has been true of all editions released since 2010, it is also indexed to the The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide. Importantly, though, it documents the many respects in which contemporary professional legal writing, very often following guidelines set out in court rules or local style guides, diverges from the citation formats specified by those academic reference works. The work’s current online format, introduced in early 2016, was created with the assistance of students enrolled in a graduate software engineering course at Cornell.

Power Reporting
Links to computer assisted reporting sites, journalism guidelines, etc.

dotJournalism.co.uk
A site based in England, with resource links and a job database.

Reporter’s Resource — Links for Journalists

Newspapers.com – News papers around the world.

US News Desert Map – According to our news desert map, the United States has been rapidly losing its local newspapers since 2005. The Northwestern’s 2025 State of Local News report also reported that 213 counties now have no local news source at all!