Journalists Resource

the mission of journalist’s resource, based at harvard's shorenstein center, is to curate scholarship relevant to the media for use by practitioners, educators and students. we also invite all those interested in policy and public affairs — from citizen bloggers to civic groups — to use the site’s materials. our open-access project is designed to provide state-of-knowledge information on topics of public interest. we’re now all living in the era of information overabundance; we hope you’ll see us a tool that usefully condenses quality information from authoritative sources and presents it succinctly. establishing and promoting the concept of “knowledge-based reporting” animates the project. many of the nation’s top journalism educators and thinkers are increasingly focused on the idea of bringing journalism closer to the research world — both to meet the profession’s social mission and to ensure its high value in an increasingly crowded marketplace — and our site strives to provide a s