Newhouse Net List #1

Mailing Lists About Public Communications Topics

updated 08-04

CAJ-LIST

This is the professional electronic forum for Canadian journalists run by the Canadian Association of Journalists. Questions about help with stories, ethics, and media discussions are all welcome here.  Be rpepared for 10-20 messages a day.

Subscription address: majordomo@eagle.ca In body of message type: subscribe CAJ-List your-email-address

CARR-L

Barbara believes this is one of the best lists around for journalists. Although its focus is computer- assisted research and reporting it covers many journalism topics. List founder Elliott Parker, a Central Mich. Univ. professor, feeds the list with wonderful tips you won't find other places. It's an active list, so you might want to put it on digest (to do that see subscription commands in left navigation frame).

Subscription address: listserv@listserv.louisville.edu In body of message type: subscribe carr-l firstname lastname

CENSUS-L

Staff at The National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting (NICAR), which is related to Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) began this discussion group for reporters working on census stories and mapping issues.

Subscription address: majordomo@nicar.org  In body of message type:  subscribe census-l  email-address

CCR-L

Cops and Crime Reporters list. If you work the courts, crime or criminal justice beat here's your list. Topics range from tips to checking out leads cross-country. The list is maintained by Criminal Justice Journalists, a national professional organization of writers, editors, and broadcasters covering crime and justice. Melissa Moore, Louisians State University coordinates the discussion, which is hosted at the Poynter Institute.

Subscribe via the Poynter Institute.

CMA-L

More than 500 persons, mostly advisers of college student media, share ideas on this list. It averages about 70 messages a week, with fewer posts during the summer. List manager, Eddie Blick of Louisiana Tech, says recent topics include legal concerns, computers (hardware and software), staff recruitment/management, business topics, and teaching resources.

Subscription address: blick@latech.edu  Send Eddie an email to tell him you're interested in subscribing to CMA-L and explain your relationship to college student media.

COPYEDITING-L

A list for copy editors which includes lots of helpful tips on grammar, references, Internet resources, freelancers and the philosophy of editing. The list began at cornell University in 1992 and has morphed a few times with BIll BLinn and Jane Lyle as current list owners. The list is unmoderated and is about 500 lines per digest.   Indiana Univ hosts the list.

Subscription address: listserv@listserv.indiana.edu   In body of message type: subscribe copyediting-l firstname lastname

FOI-L

This is a great list -- of course, I'd say that because I run this list.  Now 10 years old, the list has proved valuable for journalists, academics, government officials and others interested in freedom of information issues, access to meetings and the public's right to know. The list focuses on state access issues, but discussion of federal issues is welcomed. It's run as a project of the National Freedom of Information Coalition.

Subscription address:listserv@listserv.syr.edu  In body of message type: subscribe foi-l firstname lastname

INTCAR-L

Here's where you'll find out all about investigative reporting internationally. Covers journalism, access issues and computer-assisted reporting outside the US.

Subscription address:listserv@american.edu  In body of message type subscribe intcar-l firstname lastname

IRE-L

This very active lives covers discussions related to investigative reporting. Most people who post are active in the professional organization, Investigative Reporters and Editors, IRE. You'll find a wealth of information here.

Subscription address:listproc@lists.missouri.edu. In body of message type: subscribe ire-l firstname lastname

JHISTORY

On Jhistory, academics and historians discuss related to the history of journalism and mass communication history. The list began at New York University in 1994 but has not migrated over to h-net at Michigan State University.  Faculty from five universities serve as co-editors. Notes and queries about journalism history topics are welcomed. For more information see: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~jhistory/. You can subscribe at H-Net

Or send an email to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu In body of message type: subscribe jhistory firstname lastname, institution

JOURNET

This is a must for journalism professors. Here you'll find wide-ranging discussions on course content, resources, teaching strategies, ethics, and current news events. It's a fairly active group.

Subscription address: listserv@cmich.edu  In body of message type: subscribe journet firstname lastname

NCEW-L (replaced with new list)

A new list replaces the old NCEW-L. Editorial page writers and editors who are members of the National Conference of Editorial Writers can click here for the new list at NCEW .

NEWSLIB

News librarians, reporters and information specialists frequent this list. They give many helpful pointers to great sites on the Internet and tips on where to find information.   There's also a wonderful group of Good Samaritans who track information and help each other.  Barbara Semonche, Director of The Park Library
School of Journalism and Mass Communication runs the list.

Subscription address: lyris@listserv.unc.edu In body of message type: subscribe newslib

NICAR-L

If you're doing computer-assisted reporting this list run by the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting at the University of Missouri (affiliated with IRE) will be very helpful in trading information, leads and techniques about CAR.

Subscription address: listproc@lists.missouri.edu In body of message type: subscribe nicar-l firstname lastname

RTVJ-L

Those who teach radio and TV journalism share ideas, problems, book reviews and other topics here. Run by Professor Bill Knowles of Montana for the R-TV Journalism Division of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Subscription address: majordomo@majordomo.umt.edu  In body of message type: subscribe rtvj-l firstname lastname

SPIG

That's Small Programs Interest Group, meaning small journalism programs at colleges.  It's mostly populated by faculty in small journalism and mass communications programs but they welcome anyone on the list.  Managed by Prof. Brian Steffen, Simpson College, Indianola, IA, this discussion list is related to a sub-group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Subscription address:majordomo@storm.simpson.edu  In body of message type: subscribe SPIG e-mail-address 

SPJ-L

An active list run by the Society of Professional Journalists, the nation's oldest journalism organization. Includes SPJ chapter updates and covers a wide range of topics and current events in news. Frequented mostly by journalists. Very active.

Subscribe from this webpage: http://www.spj.org/spj_programs_email.asp

SPJ-ETHICS

This is a forum for discussion of journalism ethics, run by Staci Kramer for the Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ. It began as a group to discuss changes to the SPJ Code of Ethics and subscribers wanted to continue talking once the new code was adopted.

Subscription address: majordomo@ccrc.wustl.edu  In body of message type: subscribe spj-ethics your-email-address