News on the Range - Helpful Links
News Sources
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- Google News Great for headlines and often has links to a wide variety of sources. Search for 'colorado' to help find regional news.
- Truthout Selected news articles from big-name press, frequently international, with progressive slant. Sometimes some highly-charged stuff.
- Common Dreams More selected progressive news articles and links to news services plus a "progressive news wire" (on the right) linking to recent articles at some big NGOs and such.
- Indymedia Center Global network of democratically-run free-publishing news collectives. Look for story ideas here and then search for multiple articles on Google News. Use links on left side to find Indymedia center closest an area that is hot (especially big demonstrations) to get another point of view.
- Rocky Mountain Indymedia is our local Indymedia. Look in the news wire on the right-hand side.
- HCCRC - High-Country Community Radio Coalition -- regional audio archive has Dark Cloud, Hot Shots movie reviews and more.
- Headwaters News - News of the rocky mountain region. Sponsored by the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. Lots of environmental news.
- Local network television news websites
- Local newspaper websites
- Fort Collins Coloradoan
- Loveland Reporter Herald
- Greeley Tribune
- Windsor Tribune
- Windsor Beacon
- Boulder Weekly
- Colorado Daily
- Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph
- Daily Camera
- Denver Post
- Denver Westword
- Durango Herald
- Estes Park Trail-Gazette
- Longmont Daily Times-Call
- Northern Colorado Business Report Inc.
- Pueblo Chieftain
- Rocky Mountain News
- Rocky Mountain Bullhorn Rocky Mountain (CSU) Collegian
- USA Today
- Wyoming Tribune Eagle
- North Forty News
- Alternet
- CNN
- Washington Post (subscription)
- Washington Post (subscription)
- Huffington Post
- UK Guardian
- Big Eye
- American Free Press
- San Jose Mercury News
- Christian Science Monitor
- Environmental News Network news | today's
- Oxfam News
- Online Research and Library- Questia
Weather
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- National Weather Service
- Weather.com
- Weather Underground - good weather source but many popups and pop-under ads.
Newswriting
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- Writing for Radio
(newscript.com) is a general-purpose and brief education about radio
journalism writing.
- The Basics - introduction to radio newswriting
- The Newsroom - organization, preparation and operation
- News Judgment - how to cover events and what events should be covered
- Glossary - definitions of common radio news terms
- BBC Radio News Style Guide
- Journalist's Toolbox
- the American Press Institute's resources for news writers.
- Broadcast News - part of the Journalist's Toolbox
- Transom.org - articles and tools to help new producers of NPR-style radio stories.
Pronunciation
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- Bartleby.com - links directly to a dictionary with audio pronunciation!
- Voice of America - pronunciation guide with some audio. Names and places recently in the news.