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Useful Websites

News and Media

  • Advanced Media Institute — Cornucopia of resources – tutorials, videos, training, and more – for the emerging digital media scholar. By the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School for Journalism
  • AHT – UTD Harry W. Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
  • AJR — American Journalism Review
  • Al Jazeera
  • AllSides — Presenting news divided by the political spectrum: left-, center- and right-leaning
  • AP News — Associated Press, the essential global news network
  • AP Fact Check — Fact-checking and accountability journalism from AP journalists around the globe
  • Austin American-Statesman — UTD users access Austin American-Statesman here
  • BBC News Online
  • BoingBoing.net — Founded by a former editor of Wired, an award-winning zine, blog, and directory of “wonderful things”
  • Chronicle of Higher Education — Includes job listings; UTD users may access the full version (premium access) for free
  • Chronicling America — Access historic U.S. newspaper pages from 1770-1963. Use the Advanced Search to limit searches to particular states or specific newspapers. Users may also access the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present
  • CNN
  • Critical Media Project — Free media literacy web resource for educators and students that enhances people’s critical thinking and empathy, and builds on their capacities to advocate for change around questions of identity
  • D Magazine — Dallas guide to restaurants, nightlife, things to do, shopping, politics, and culture
  • DailySource — Gathering the latest print and video streams from leading U.S. and international news outlets: CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, BBC, Reuters, and more
  • Dallas News — Website powered by the Dallas Morning News. UTD users may access Dallas Morning News online paper
  • The Dallas Observer — Dallas's weekly alternative newspaper
  • FactCheck.org — Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania helping to dispel false claims, distorted facts, and misinformation in today’s media environment
  • FAIR – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting — Challenging media bias and censorship since 1986
  • Forbes — UTD users access Forbes here
  • Freedom Collection — Archive of news and video interviews with freedom activists from around the world. By the George W. Bush Institute at SMU (Southern Methodist University)
  • KERA — Local DFW area radio and television, supporting National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
  • Knight Foundation — Supporting journalism and the arts. Find topical reviews, articles, reports, speeches, and more
  • London Times
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Media Bias / Fact Check — One of the most comprehensive media bias resources on the internet
  • Mercury, The UTD — Official student newspaper and online news of UTD
  • NBCnews.com
  • New York Times — Note: Current UTD students, staff, and faculty may sign up for a NYTimes.com account
  • NPR — National Public Radio
  • On the Media — Exploring the latest issues affecting media
  • Online Newspapers — Browse by geographic region or country
  • Politifact.org — Pulitzer-prize winning fact-checker of U.S. politics, with a handy guide to fake news websites
  • ProPublica — An independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. 2010 Pulitzer prize winner for investigative reporting
  • Reddit — Front page of the Internet
  • Retraction Watch — Tracking (journal and preprint) retractions as a window into the scientific process
  • Reuters — Providing trusted business, financial, national, and international news
  • Reveal — News from the award-winning Center for Investigative Reporting
  • Slashdot — “News for Nerds.” Online news aggregator and interactive blog
  • Slate — Online magazine for politics, business, technology, and the arts
  • Snopes — The Internet’s go-to source for discerning what is true and what is total nonsense. Fact-check thousands upon thousands of sources
  • Texas Observer — Investigating Texas since 1954.
  • Texas Standard — National daily news show of Texas. Produced in the state capital in collaboration with KUT Austin, KERA North Texas, Houston Public Media, and Texas Public Radio San Antonio
  • Texas Tribune — Nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans on public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues. Produced in the state capital in collaboration with KUT Austin, KERA North Texas, Houston Public Media and Texas Public Radio San Antonio
  • USA Today
  • UT-Austin Libraries: Finding News and News Evaluation
  • Wall Street Journal — UTD users access Wall Street Journal here
  • Washington Post — UTD users access Washington Post here
  • Washington Post - Fact Checker — Washington Post's news fact-checker
  • Wikimedia Commons – Collection of millions of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute