Presidential Politics
019:171/173/249
Fall 2003
10:30 to 12:20 M/W
4th floor, Seashore Hall

About This Course

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

There are thousands of excellent Web sites with additional information for you.
Here are just a few:

SITES ABOUT POLITICS
(in addition to other obvious media, candidate and party sites)

ABC’s The Note: abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
Des Moines Register Caucus Watch 2004: DesMoinesRegister.com/extras/politics/caucus2004
Federal Election Commission: www.fec.gov
Iowa Democratic Party: iowademocrats.org
Iowa Republican Party: www.iowagop.org
Meet-Up, grassroots participation: meetup.com
Open Secrets (campaign finance): opensecrets.org
Political Information (directory): politicalinformation.com
Project Vote Smart (candidates): vote-smart.org
Public Agenda (issues): publicagenda.org

SITES ABOUT JOURNALISM, REPORTING and MEDIA ISSUES
American Journalism Review: ajr.org
Columbia Journalism Review: cjr.org
Howard Kurtz’ Media Notes: washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/medianotes
Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE): ire.org
Online Journalism Review: ojr.org
Newsdirectory.com (links to media sites): newsdirectory.com
Pew Research Center for People and Press: people-press.org
Power Reporting: powerreporting.com
The Poynter Institute and Romenesko’s blog: poynter.org, poynter.org/medianews
Project for Excellence in Journalism: journalism.org
Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press: rcfp.org
Society of Professional Journalists: spj.org
SITES ABOUT WEB DESIGN
(some are kind of technical, but poke around for useful info)
About: Graphic Design: graphicdesign.about.com
Macromedia Dreamweaver Support: macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver
Page Resource: pageresource.com
Usable Web: usableweb.com
Webmonkey: hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
Web Page Design for Designers: wpdfd.com
Web Pages That Suck: webpagesthatsuck.com
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