Hitting the streets of your beat for the first time? Make sure to head out there hungry – both for a great story and a great meal. Some of NYC’s best food never makes it into Zagat’s, so an essential website for learning about your neighborhood’s cuisine is Chowhound. Covering an area in Manhattan? Search […]
News As It Breaks
Want to be the first on the scene? Use Gothamist Maps to get a snapshot of police, fire & rescue activity around the 5 boroughs (e.g. “Plane Crash into Building, East 72nd St & 1st Ave”). Then race over there to get the story. Are you witnessing something as it unfolds? If so, you can […]
Community Health Profiles, 2006
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (surely the most excellent name for a health department in all of the U.S.) has just released its 2006 Community Health Profiles. These profiles cover neighborhoods in all 5 boroughs, and also include special reports and maps on topics such as binge drinking, diabetes, and domestic […]
Visual NYC Data for RW1 Students
The Journalism School along with the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning created an amazing new reporting resource for RW1 students – an electronic map of New York City that allows students to view census data by neighborhood, election district, etc. To use this resource, and for more information on how to use it, […]
Arts/Culture Reporting Resources for MA Students
CLIO is Columbia’s library catalog. A journal title search will tell you which journals we receive, print or electronic versions. JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary full text journal repository, with an emphasis on historical back issues of journals. The archive can be searched or browsed. ProQuest Digital Dissertations has the downloadable full text of dissertations completed […]
How to…Get the AP Day Schedule
If you want to pull up the New York daily schedule from the Associated Press, and are not in a Journalism School computer lab with access to the ENPS system, just connect to Factiva) (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates). Once connected, in the “Free Text” box at the top, type: nyc daybook exactly as […]
AP Daybook Access Demo
Would you like to see an online demonstration of how to access the AP Daybook from Factiva? Your colleague, Joseph Lin, MS 2009, has put together a wonderful step-by-step screencast! Click on Joseph’s screencast to view. […]
Library Access for Graduating Students
Congratulations on your graduation! You may be wondering what will become of your access to Columbia’s excellent electronic resources once you are no longer a student. This blog post will give you the definitive answers on the topic – accept no conflicting information! Part I: Good News and Bad News The Good News: Upon graduation, […]