Wikinews:Global Networking/Miscellaneous

The Miscellaneous Section &mdash; for things that don't belong anywhere else

Tools

 * Mozilla Firefox a reasonably secure, easy to use web browser that allows multiple urls to be viewed in one browser window, and works with BugMeNot plugin, see below.
 * BugMeNot a browser plugin to help protect your privacy and reduce hassle associated with sites that demand registration/login to view articles. Works with Mozilla Firefox browser, see above.
 * Google translate
 * SysTran - (Arabic, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, French) to English and back.

News Sources

 * For a very large list of online English-language newspapers and other online English-language news sources from around the world, divided by regions (as well as English-language websites for UN member states), see The Guardian's World News Guide.

International

 * Agence France Presse (English) - France's international news agency
 * Al Jazeera (English)
 * All Headline News (AHN)
 * Associated Press - US's national and international news agency
 * BBC News Online
 * Cable News Network (CNN) Online
 * Canadian Press - Canadian print and broadcast news wire service
 * Cryptome - "Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide"
 * International Herald and Tribune - Often carries New York Times stories without needing to register to read them
 * IRIN - News service funded by the UN that focuses on humanitarian issues
 * ITAR-TASS - Russian wire service.
 * Reuters - British international news agency.
 * Secrecy News - "new developments in secrecy, security and intelligence policies"
 * United Nations News Centre
 * United Press International
 * Voice of America - public domain news source operated by the U.S. Government
 * Xinhua - official People's Republic of China news source.

Women

 * Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

International

 * UN Secretary General's Daily Briefing
 * NYIHA advocacy News

Law

 * GrokLaw
 * Jurist Legal news and research
 * Electronic Frontiers Foundation
 * Electronic Frontiers Australia
 * Electronic Frontiers Foundation
 * Electronic Frontiers Australia
 * BBC Monitoring
 * Poynter Online Romenesko blog

Voting record resources

 * Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
 * Senate directory
 * House directory

Privacy

 * Electronic Frontiers Foundation

Religion

 * BBC Religion & Ethics
 * PBS Religion & Ethics
 * Religion News Blog
 * Religion News Service blog
 * Beliefnet News & Blogs page

Science & technology

 * Nature Magazine -- peer-reviewed Academic science journal, useable as a primary source
 * New Scientist Magazine -- popularised science news
 * ScienceDaily Magazine
 * The Register
 * Slashdot News discussion site, primary focus is tech news
 * Whirlpool Australian telecomms news and discussion
 * Nature Medicine peer-reviewed Academic medical journal, useable as a primary source
 * British Medical Journal peer-reviewed Academic medical journal, useable as a primary source
 * The Lancet peer-reviewed Academic medical journal, useable as a primary source

Space

 * European Space Agency (ESA) press release calendar
 * National National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) press release calendar

Census, survey, poll

 * Pew Research Center. Includes timely, largely United States polls and the Pew Global Attitudes Project. On-going and annually.
 * World Values Survey. Systematically and consistently gathered opinions from many countries.
 * The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Government systems, democracy.
 * Quinnipiac Polling Institute Often cited by journalists, public officials and researchers
 * Statistics Canada. Results largely from the Canadian census.

Economic data

 * Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Economy surveys etc.
 * The Economics and Statistics Administration. "ESA is the bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce where economic and social changes are chronicled, understood, and explained."

Press releases
Please be especially cautious when relying on press release material for stories. Generally these are suitable only as leads, and as source material for quotes for stories. They can also be useful in cross-checking the origin of stories published elsewhere, since it is common practice for "journalists" to quote entire sections of a press release without specific attribution, or indeed to reprint an entire press release as a story, since the PR source is certain to be supportive and it often means an early lunch for the journalist.


 * PR Newswire (U.S.)
 * PR Newswire (U.K.)
 * Canada NewsWire
 * U.S. Newswire
 * PRZOOM - Newswire Press Release Distribution Network
 * Press Releases at PR.com Press Release Distribution & Promotion
 * PRWeb Tier-1 Press Release Newswire Service
 * PRESSi.COM Finnish News Releases
 * Eworldwire Newswire Service
 * I-Newswire Free Press Release Distribution Center
 * NewswireToday Free Press Release & Newswire Distribution Network
 * Ascribe newswire distributes releases for non-profit and public-sector organisations (apparently, principally US-based ones)

News aggregation sites
These are sites which simply aggregate headlines from other sites. Please try to avoid linking to aggregators of poor quality here, since many "domain squatter" sites attempt to pass themselves off as aggregators, but provide links of inconsistent quality and topic.


 * Europe Media Monitor Site run by the European Commission, aggregating news from a number of parts of the world. The site allows searching by country and language of stories.
 * Google News Searchable, region categories, aggregates mainstream news sites
 * Matt Drudge's Web Site Fairly good quality, stories selected sometimes have slight right bias, first to break the Lewinsky Story
 * TheMirror.nl Primarily tech-news, stories grouped by date
 * NewsBlaze Allegedly has journalists and experts covering topics spanning "the globe" and a cross-section of news assembled from unnamed leading news agencies.
 * NewsNow UK-based aggregator, categorizing aggregated news according to countries and issues. The search capability is limited to one word searches for non-paying viewers, but most links shown available from non-pay and non-registration sources.

Blogosphere

 * Technorati
 * FAQ - blogs, how tos, more

Free media
Media must be uploaded to the Commons in order to be used on Wikinews. To do so, they must be correctly licensed by a license-holder.


 * Wikimedia Commons
 * Current Events graphics from Commons
 * Flickr - CC-by-sa
 * Flickr - CC-by
 * PD Photo "thousands of royalty free pictures"
 * Defenselink(US DOD) - PD Has photos of US military related events
 * Canadian Forces Combat Camera search page (Canadian military) Has photos of Canadian military events
 * OpenClipArt - Public Domain clipart
 * FirstGov - Links to goverment sites with mostly PD photos
 * IRIN Photo Gallery - use tag on uploaded images. Only upload to Wikinews.

Not necessarily completely free images
Remember, if an image is not currently under a license which allows it to be hosted on Commons, you can always ask the copyright holder to release it under a different license. Here are some sources which are not necessarily free licensed, but include copyright holder contact information:
 * cotch.net/photos.php - London, Southern England, Cincinnati USA (ask w:User:Steinsky)
 * San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - use tag on uploaded images.

Free audio

 * NPR's Sound Library Directory

Wikinewsies

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 * irc #wikinews
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 * Sduffy (Talk)
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 * Wappi76
 * irc (Italian) #wikinews-it
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 * Skype: wappi76 (Please message me before calling: I do not answer calls from strangers who do not introduce themselves first)
 * Location: Italy (I would be glad to help with news from Italy)
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