Journalism links
Here's a selection of useful links for carrying out your work and promoting it. Found something we should know about or interested in exchanging links? Contact us!
Useful tools
- Visual Thesaurus
- Oxford English Dictionary (UK)
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online (UK)
- Merriam Webster dictionaries (US)
- Find a phrase
- Currency converter
- Writeboard - edit stories together online
- Tadalist - portable to do lists
- Scoot - UK company directory
- Phone Net UK - UK directory enquiries for free
- UK Patent Office - search for trademarks and patents
Sourcing press releases and PR contacts
Other research sources
- Faqs - a searchable database of 'frequently asked questions' (FAQs) from newsgroups
- Allconferences - an industry events search engine
- News Next - forward planning tool
Promoting yourself online
- Hold the front page - Directory of freelance journalists online
- Freelancers.net - post your CV here and receive email updates on freelance opportunities
- Journalism.co.uk - you can include your profile in their freelancers database here for £50 a year
Finding markets
- Wooden Horse - selling access to a database of magazines
- BRAD - expensive database of UK magazines
- Audit Bureau of Circulations - find out how many readers ABC-audited magazines have
- Recommended journalism books - our reviews of books to help you find markets
- Paperboy - find the websites of newspapers worldwide by country
- Newspaperindex
Finding journalism jobs
- Journalism Jobs - in the US
- Media Guardian - UK media news and searchable job adverts database
- Reed - job site with extensive media listings
Looking after the business side of freelancing
- The rate for the job - NUJ's online list of actual rates magazines pay
- NUJ's interest and compensation calculator - See how much interest you're owed if publishers delay payment (in the EU)
Training organisations
- PMA Training
- Cleland Thom Journalism Training Services
- Practical Journalism
- The European Journalism Training Association
- Off Beat Trips freelance travel writing course - offers a course covering freelance travel journalism, photography, sponsorship and marketing
Industry bodies
Other sites about journalism
- Journalism UK - extensive links to magazines, newspapers and other journalism-relevant UK sites
- Poynter Online
- NUJ code of conduct
Tutorials
Entertainment
- Wild Mood Swings - tell this site how you feel and it will take you to a site to fit your mood
- Sean's Javascript Games
- Ambiguous English
- Alan Partridge - Aha!
