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Edward J. Trayes, Ph.D., Professor of Communications

and

The Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising
School of Communications and Theater
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

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About This Site

Welcome to Journalist's Compass, a work in progress set up to assist communications professionals, students, and interested others do their work more efficiently. Journalist's Compass is an information hub with links to Internet resources from not only journalism and media interests, but such areas as commerce, finance, think tanks, the Federal government, writing and research.

The organization is straightforward in that visitors to Journalist's Compass simply make choices from those available on the navigation panels. The entire Journalist's Compass database also can be accessed through an intrasite search engine.

Otherwise, try the full list of more than 3,500 URLs by starting with the first letter of any keyword you have in mind. Census? Simply click on *CA-CL* under alphabetical links and you move immediately to that section of the full list. Scrolling will take you the rest of the way! Each listing with visible URL is clickable for direct connection to the site of your choice.

Browsing the Full URL List or any of the much shorter Keyword Directory Listings will provide fairly quick overviews of at least some of the information available in Cyberspace. An exploration of the CARR/EIG Resource List will reveal an array of online and clickable as well as traditional readings for those who write and edit.

Journalist's Compass content is pulled together by Ed Trayes, a professor of communications and director of the Master of Journalism program at Temple University. He is primarily a lurker on many lists and has made his selections based on the advice, insights and efforts of many individuals skilled in the ways of Cyberspace. Among them, and in no particular order, are Elliott Parker of CARR-L and Central Michigan University, Donna Wair of the Vanderbilt Law Library, Dean Tudor of Ryerson University, Liz W. Tompkins and James Porteous of NBNews Journal, Brian Brooks of the University of Missouri, Chip Bayers of HotWired, Paul Erwin of CompuServe, Brant Houston of NICAR, and Nora Paul of the Poynter Institute. Currently, Journalist's Compass is adminstered by Jennifer Musser , a graduate assistant and student in the Master of Journalism program at Temple University.

Special thanks go to Temple University and its computer services staff for their support and patience in helping to get Journalist's Compass up and running. Without such efforts, Journalist's Compass would not have happened. Those in computer services who assisted in major ways include Gene Mayro, Greg Szczepanek, and Paul C. Wood. All errors, mistakes and misadventures are solely the responsibility of Ed Trayes.




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