TIP: Looking for feature ideas? Need more help tracking down people, facts, issues, trivia and … just about anything under the sun?
Well here’s a lonnnnng list of Miscellaneous Research Tools every communicator might want to keep in their bottom drawer (or bookmarks folder).
It’s yet another list presented by the US Society of Professional Journalists in the Journalist’s Toolbox series.
OK so a good number of sites listed are from the US. But, trust me, you’ll find enough ideas in here to impress the toughest of editors. Pay rise guaranteed.
Like the dMarie Time Capsule site. Just type in a date and get the headlines, music, top-selling toys, birthdays and TV shows from the era. Or dig into the United Nation’s information sources. Or find information on copyright. Or record breakers. Or historical facts. Or the complete A-Z of common mistakes in the English language
There’s even a site where you can hear the world’s most famous speeches … backwards. (I learn that “reverse speech is the world’s leading technology to give insight into the unconscious mind.”) Now there’s an easy feature idea.
READ AT SOURCE: Journalist’s Toolbox »
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