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Wikinews:Reference desk

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Contents

• 1 Tools
  • 1.1 Web browsing
  • 1.2 Translation
• 2 Images
  • 2.1 Public domain
  • 2.2 Other
• 3 Source material sites, by location of publication
  • 3.1 International
  • 3.2 Australia
  • 3.3 Austria
  • 3.4 Brazil
  • 3.5 Canada
  • 3.6 Colombia
  • 3.7 Iraq
  • 3.8 Ireland
  • 3.9 Israel
  • 3.10 Italy
  • 3.11 Netherlands
  • 3.12 New Zealand
  • 3.13 Russia
  • 3.14 South Africa
  • 3.15 Spain
  • 3.16 Sweden
  • 3.17 Switzerland
  • 3.18 Ukraine
  • 3.19 United Kingdom
  • 3.20 United States
• 4 Source material sites, by topic
  • 4.1 Women
  • 4.2 International
  • 4.3 Law
    • 4.3.1 Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • 4.4 Media
    • 4.4.1 Censorship
  • 4.5 Politics
    • 4.5.1 Voting record resources
  • 4.6 Privacy
  • 4.7 Science & technology
    • 4.7.1 General Science & technology resources
    • 4.7.2 Computing and telecommunications
    • 4.7.3 Environment
    • 4.7.4 Health & medicine
• 5 Raw data/primary source sites
  • 5.1 Census, survey, poll
  • 5.2 Economic data
  • 5.3 Press releases
• 6 Free audio
• 7 See also

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Tools

Web browsing

Mozilla Firefox a reasonably secure, easy to use web browser that allows multiple urls to be viewed in one browser window, and works with BugMeNot plugin, see below.

BugMeNot a browser plugin to help protect your privacy and reduce hassle associated with sites that demand registration/login to view articles. Works with Mozilla Firefox browser, see above.

Translation

Google translate
SysTran - to English and back.

Images

Wikimedia Commons

Current Events graphics from Commons

Public domain

Must be uploaded to the Commons

PD Photo "thousands of royalty free pictures"
Defenselink Has public domain photos of US military related events
OpenClipArt - Public Domain clipart
FirstGov - Links to goverment sites with mostly PD photos

Other

Can be uploaded to Wikinews

IRIN Photo Gallery - use {{irin}} tag on uploaded images.
Flickr - CC-by-sa
Flickr - CC-by
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - use {{noncommercial}} tag on uploaded images.

Source material sites, by location of publication

International

Al Jazeera
BBC News
Cable News Network Online
ITAR-TASS - Russian wire service.
International Herald and Tribune
Reuters - British international news agency.
United Nations News Centre
Voice of America - public domain news source operated by the U.S. Government
Xinhua - official People's Republic of China news source.
IRIN - News service funded by the UN that focuses on humanitarian issues.

Australia

Australian Broadcasting Corporation News Online wikipedia entry
Special Broadcasting Service World News wikipedia entry
Australian Associated Press - syndicated to mainstream providers wikipedia entry
The Age - Melbourne wikipedia entry
The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney wikipedia entry
The Australian - national wikipedia entry
News.com.au wikipedia entry
National Nine News - wikipedia entry
Network TEN News & Weather wikipedia entry
Seven News wikipedia entry
Green Left Weekly - alternative newspaper wikipedia entry
Australian Financial Review - business news daily wikipedia entry

Austria

Der Standard. Daily newspaper in German.
Die Presse. Daily newspaper in German.
Austrian Public Broadcasting Online. In German.
Kurier. Daily newspaper in German.

Brazil

ABr. Agência Brasil . A news agency from Brazilian government. News in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
AE. Agência Estado . Daily newspaper in Brazil. In Portuguese.
AF. Agência Folha . Daily newspaper in Brazil in Portuguese.

Canada

CBC News
Global News Network
Globe and Mail
Google News Canada
Radio Canada French version of CBC.
The Toronto Star

Colombia

Caracol Radio. In Spanish.
El Pais. Daily newspaper in Colombia. In Spanish.

Iraq

Technorati Iraq tag. Blog searching

Ireland

Radio Telefis Eireann News National TV & Radio Service
The Irish Times Daily National Newspaper
Irish Independent Daily National Newspaper
Irish Examiner Daily National Newspaper
Sunday Business Post Weekly National Newspaper
Finfacts.com Irish Business Portal - company press releases, economy reports & general business news.
Business Plus Monthly Business Magazine
Ireland Online News - Irish Internet Portal.
Unison.ie Collaboration of 27 Irish newspapers .
Businessworld.ie Irish business news portal.
Hogan Stand GAA Magazine

Israel

Jerusalem Post Daily English languague newspaper.
Yediot Aharonot Daily English languague newspaper.
haaretz News and commentary relating to events in Israel
israel news .net A collection of links to external Israel daily news sites
"hrutz sheva" news source, identified with the Religious Zionist Movement.

Italy

Ansa Italian news agency
Corriere della Sera Daily newspaper in Italian
Repubblica Daily newspaper in Italian

Netherlands

Algemeen Dagblad Daily newspaper in the Netherlands
NRC Handelsblad Daily newspaper in the Netherlands
Het Parool Daily newspaper in the Netherlands
Telegraaf Daily newspaper in the Netherlands

New Zealand

Google News New Zealand
The Stuff
New Zealand News.Net
The Press
The New Zealand Herald

Russia

Эхо Москвы "Echo of Moscow" news and commentary radio station
Gazeta.ru Online news resource
Московские Новости "The Moscow News" daily newspaper.

South Africa

IOL. News for South Africa and the World.
ITWeb. The Technology News Site.
News24. Southern Africa online news resource also supplying Afrikaans content.

Spain

El País. The spanish most important daily newspapaer.
El Mundo. Another relevant newspaper in the spanish media landscape.
EFE. The most important news agency.

Sweden

Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå Largest news agency in Scandinanvia.

Switzerland

Swissinfo.org. News of Switzerland in English.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Daily newspaper in German.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung. English Window.

Ukraine

Interfax News agency .
Window on Ukraine. English and Russian. Business-oriented daily.
Unian. News agency

United Kingdom

BBC News
Google News UK
Guardian
The Independent
The Daily Telegraph
The Times
UK Government Newsroom - run by the w:Cabinet Office
UK Parliament News - includes all forthcoming business in the w:British House of Commons and w:House of Lords and timetables for elections

United States

US Commerce Dept. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Economic figures for the United States.
CNN US News section
Christian Science Monitor
Democracy Now!.
Fox News Online
Google News
National Public Radio
Los Angeles Times. Requires free login
New York Times. Requires free login.
White House Press Briefings
The U.S. Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau

Source material sites, by topic

Women

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

International

UN Secretary General's Daily Briefing
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Law

GrokLaw

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Electronic Frontiers Australia

Media

Poynter Online Romenesko blog

Censorship

Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Electronic Frontiers Australia

Politics

Voting record resources

Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
Senate directory
House directory

Privacy

Electronic Frontiers Foundation

Science & technology

General Science & technology resources

Nature Magazine
New Scientist Magazine
ScienceDaily Magazine

Computing and telecommunications

The Register

Environment

Health & medicine

Nature Medicine
British Medical Journal

Raw data/primary source sites

Census, survey, poll

Pew Research Center. Includes timely, largely United States polls and the Pew Global Attitudes Project. On-going and annually.
World Values Survey. Systematically and consistently gathered opinions from many countries.
The Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Government systems, democracy.
Quinnipiac Polling Institute Often cited by journalists, public officials and researchers

Economic data

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Economy surveys etc.
The Economics and Statistics Administration. "ESA is the bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce where economic and social changes are chronicled, understood, and explained."

Press releases

PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Canada NewsWire
U.S. Newswire
Press Releases at PR.com Press Release Distribution & Promotion
PRWeb Tier-1 Press Release Newswire Service
PRESSi.COM Finnish News Releases
Eworldwire Newswire Service
I-Newswire Free Press Release Distribution Center

Free audio

NPR's Sound Library Directory

See also

News sources organised by region - This should help alleviate potential problems of regional bias.
Wikinews:Public domain news sources

Wikinews:Introduction to Wikinews
Writing an article
Wikinews Journalists' Code of Ethics
Wikinews newswriting Style guide
Wikinews newswriting Content guide
Wikinews guide to Original reporting
Wikinews Article flags for use when an article needs orial attention
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