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HEALTHCARE MEASURES

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Consumers have a vast amount of information available to them at their fingertips by simply going online and doing some basic research. However, the time to choose the best hospital for you and your family is when you are healthy. When comparing hospitals, published reports can vary widely.

In an effort to help consumers gauge a hospital’s performance, there are multiple groups, nonprofit organizations and private companies offering ratings and comparisons.

CITY ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR

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New, existing, small and large businesses from throughout City Island and the vicinity, along with area wide artists are all participating in The City Island Arts and Crafts Fair this weekend.

Come out and enjoy the sights, sounds, smell and smiles. The fair continues today, and ends this evening. The event officially runs 11:00 am to 7:00 pm, but please come early and stay late. There's plenty to do for the family too.

MASTER MEDIA LIST

MEDIA LIST

Searchable Media Guide
Associated Press
BBC
Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
City Journal
Drudge Report
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Philadelphia Inquirer
Roll Call
USA TODAY
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Washington Times

NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES
A

Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Albuquerque Tribune
American Enterprise
American Prospect
American Spectator
Arizona Business Gazette
Arizona Republic
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Army Times
Arts & Letters Daily
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
Austin Chronicle
Austin American-Statesman
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlantic Monthly

B

Baltimore Sun
Billboard
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
Broadcasting and Cable
Buffalo News
Business Week

C

Casper Star-Tribune (WY)
Cateret County News-Times (NC)
Chigago Daily Herald
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Post
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Columbus Dispatch
Commercial Appeal (Memphis)
Congress Daily
Congressional Quarterly
Copley Chicago Newspapers

D

Daily News (NYC)
Dallas Morning News
Defense Daily
Defense Week
Denver Post
Des Moines Register
Detroit Free Press
Detroit News Home

E

Economist
Education Daily
Education Week
Esquire

F

Farm Journal
Fast Company
Financial Times
Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fortune
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

G

Governing
Guardian

H

Harper's
Hartford Courant
Hearst Newspapers
The Hill
Honolulu Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Houston Chronicle
Human Events

I

Indianapolis Star News
Inside
Insight on the News
International Hearld Tribune
Investor's Business Daily
IowaPolitics.com

NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES (CONT.)
J

Jerusalem Post
Journal of Commerce

K

Kansas City Kansan
Kansas City Star
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

L

Las Vegas Sun
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles New Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Weekly
Legal Affairs
Legal Times

M

Manchester Union Leader
Media Bypass
Miami Herald
Middle East Insight
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Mother Jones

N

Nashville Digest
The Nation
National Geographic
National Journal
National Review
New England Journal of Medicine
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New Republic
New York Daily News
New York Observer
New York Post
New York Times
New Yorker
Newark Star-Ledger
Newsday (NYC & Long Island)
Newseum
Newsweek

O

Oklahoma Gazette
Oklahoman
Oregonian (Portland, OR)
Orlando Sentinel

P, Q

Palm Beach Post
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Phoenix New Times
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Progressive
Providence Journal

R

Reader's Digest
Reason
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Roll Call
Rolling Stone
Rural Telecom

S

Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Business Journal
Salt Lake City Deseret News
Salt Lake Tribune
San Antonio Express-News
San Diego Union Tribune
San Francisco Business Journal
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
Santa Barbara Independent
Science Magazine
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Times
Seattle Weekly
Scientific American
Sojourners
Space News
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Petersburg Times
Syracuse Post-Standard

T

Tampa Tribune
Tennessee Tribune
Texas Monthly
TIME
Times (London)

U

U.S. News & World Report
USA TODAY

NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES (CONT.)
V

Village Voice
Vanity Fair

W, X, Y, Z

Wall Street Journal
Washington City Paper
Washington Post
Washington Report
Washington Times
Weekly Standard
Wisconsin State Journal
WisPolitics.com

TV/RADIO/INTERNET
A

ABC News
AlterNet.org
Arts & Letters Daily
Associated Press

B

The Black Commentator
BlackPressUSA
BBC
BET Networks
Bloomberg

C

CBS
CNN
Common Conservative
Conus

D, E

Democracy Now!
Drudge Report

F

Federalist
Final Call
FOX News

G

Gannett
Google News

H, I

Hotline

J

Jewish World Review

K

Knight-Ridder

L

The Laura Ingraham Show

M

Media Channel
MSNBC

N

National Public Radio
NBC
New American

O

The Onion
Online Journal

P, Q

Pipe Line News
Political Wire

R

Radio America Network
Reuters

S

Salon
Scripps Howard News Service
Slate
The Smoking Gun

T

Talk Radio News Service
Tom Paine

U

U.N. Wire
United Press International

V

Vice Presidents

W, X, Y, Z

WebActive
Worldnet Daily

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Social Media Considerations

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City Island Images is constantly searching for methods to increasingly leverage social media. It is one of our efforts to iicrease the quality of our news and information services and thereby improve our audience and enable greater citizen engagement, elevate public affairs, and much more.

We are developing the following:

Aligning Objectives

Transparency and Collaboration

Engaging the Public

Help City Island Images to build our platform with real-world tips on providing social media, to interact with you and to learn about your priorities and increase our engagement.

Pew Project: The News Media - 2013

Signs of the shrinking reporting power are documented throughout this year’s report. Estimates for newspaper newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put the industry down 30% since 2000 and below 40,000 full-time professional employees for the first time since 1978. In local TV, our special content report reveals, sports, weather and traffic now account on average for 40% of the content produced on the newscasts studied while story lengths shrink. On CNN, the cable channel that has branded itself around deep reporting, produced story packages were cut nearly in half from 2007 to 2012.

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TOOLBOX

Reporting Tool: Verification Junkie from Josh Stearns centralizes several social media verification tools in one place. Great for reporting and fact-checking on deadline.

Social Media Shortcuts: Check out this great list of social media keyboard shortcuts that will save time on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Public Safety: If you are covering or back-grounding the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco, use the aviation resources on the Toolbox's Public Safety page.

Copy Editing: The Think Like an Editor blog explores timely topics in editing, such as the recent prank on KTVU with the Asiana Airlines crash. It includes videos with tips and discussion topics and all kinds of resources for editors.

Journalism Tools: Not wild about the name, but the Freakin Journalism Tools Tumblr has a great collection of resources and instructional videos for mobile, social media, audio, video and more.

Instagram Search: You can find millions of photos on Instagram, but how? Gramfeed Instagram Search lets you search by people, hashtag, location, etc.

Code for Journalists: Life and Code features dozens of great code for journalists tutorials from Lisa Williams.

Severe Weather: Use resources on the Toolbox's Weather page when writing about the severe storms.

Mobile Journalism: Mobile Strategies for Community News and Information Resources is a great set of links, resources and tools from Amy Gahran and the Knight Digital Media Center. Another helpful tool for mobile journalists is Root Metrics, which allows you to search by ZIP code and find cell and data performance in your area. Great for studying dead zones and how your audience may (or may not) be accessing your content.

Public Records: Five Great Tools for Mining Public Records is a must-bookmark for quick reference to some key sites, including Recovery.org and FOIAonline. Also, FOIA Shaming is a fantastic Tumblr blog that shines a spotlight on universities that stonewall FOIA requests. Share it on social media. and here area a couple of tools that can help with requesting public records and managing those requests: The FOIA Machine allows you to automate your FOIA requests. MuckRock is an open government tool powered by state and federal Freedom of Information laws and a Sunlight Foundation grant.

Fact-Checking Social Media: Josh Stearns has built this great resource called Verifying Social Media Content that offers links, case studies and best practices for using information from social media. A must-bookmark.

Boston Marathon Bombings: Harvard University's JournoResource site has some great resources for reporters covering the attack.

State of the News Media: the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released its The State of the News Media 2013 study. Not pretty for TV news and newspapers. And the web still isn't generating enough revenue.

Medical/Health: HospitalInspections.org is a database of federal inspections of hospitals in the U.S. See how the ones in your area stack up.

Photojournalism: The Photo Blog Stop is full of great resources and tips. Good tutorials on Photoshop and photography, too.

Ethics: SPJ has updated its ethics case studies page with several new examples. Check them out.

Covering Guns: Al Tompkins has built Covering Guns, a non-partisan guide for journalists covering the complex issues surrounding gun violence, gun control, etc. It's full of links, resources, story examples and more. A must-bookmark.

Infographics: Daily Tekk has more than 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources. Great one-stop shopping for infographic and data visualization resources.

Covering Congress: Find resources to track bills, voting records and more on the Federal Government page.

Teaching Journalism: From ethics to apps, the Newseum's Digital Classroom Videos cover the basics of journalism. They're great for supplementing lectures and giving students extra depth or help with a specific area of interest. SPJ's eCampus training videos also can be helpful in the classroom. You need to be a member and use your online password to access them. Topics include smartphones, FOIAs, video and social media techniques. More: 22 Apps and Tools Every College Journalism Student Should Know About and the 40 Best Blogs for College Journalists.

Teaching Copy Editing: A couple of handy tools for us "word nerds": Chicago Tribune Grammar Cheat Sheet and SPJ Pinterest: Grammar Goofs. I like to use practical examples from Grammar Goofs to lighten up editing class lectures. I also offer extra credit for students who find their own grammar, spelling and punctuation mistakes, and then share them with the class. More resources: Copy Editing.

Design: A great tool for designers and developers: MarkupWandA tool that takes Photoshop .psd files and converts them to embeddable to HTML or CSS code. A huge time-saver.

Religion: The Religion Newswriters Association has compiled a comprehensive Religion Stylebook, which serves as an independent supplement to The Associated Press Stylebook.

Census Resources: The U.S. Census Quick Facts page helps you find current census information at the state or county level by using a pulldown menu or image map. The what's new tab at the top of the page shows all of the new data entered at the local levels.

Mobile Journalism: The Mobile Apps Gallery lists government-created mobile apps on hundreds of topics and services, ranging from weather to public works.

Gas Prices: Mapquest has a page to track gas prices in your area. Use resources in the Toolbox's Business Resources section to track the housing market , gas prices, food costs and other economic issues.

Social Trends: Pew Social Trends is full of social demographics and stats. It's a great resource for localizing these national/global trends in your community, as it has stats down to the local level.

College Media: The J-School Legal blog offers resources for journalism schools that are news providers. A must-bookmark for college editors and advisers.

Journalism Jobs: JournaJobs provides listings from all over Europe and a few in the U.S. Use News Nerd Jobs to sort through a great list of news developer jobs. MediaJobPod.org is tailored to college students looking for multimedia jobs and internships. Find more resources on the Journalism Jobs page.

Federal Government: Here's a helpful site: Directory of All Congressional Twitter Handles. USA.gov: Mobile Apps is a handy list of which government agencies have mobile apps and mobile Web sites. Great quick-reference.

Broadcasting: Find the correct pronunciations of newsmaker names at The Name Engine. Another great resource is the EarIt Demo, which allows you to roll over a name or word and get the correct pronunciation.

Politics: The National Institute on Money in State Politics, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states, has a comprehensive and verifiable campaign-finance database available for free on its site. Poligraft is a Sunlight Foundation site that adds political context to news stories by scanning news articles you enter for the names of donors, corporations, lobbyists and politicians and shows how they are connected by contributions.

Writing With Numbers: Weird Converter is great for analyzing numbers and coming up with odd facts and figures for stories. It's great for comparing sizes, weights and gives the reader some perspective. Find more resources in the Toolbox's Writing With Numbers section.

Covering People With Disabilities: You'll find hundreds of resources on the Disabilities page.

Teaching Tools: Many of you who use this site train your newsrooms and classrooms how to do online research: College Media, High School Journalism, Design, Broadcast Journalism, Ethics, Writing, Reporting Tools, Writing with Numbers, Photojournalism and Copy Editing.

Reporting Tools: Reporting Tools, Phone/E-Mail/Maps Directories, Search Engines, Expert Sources, Investigative, Form 990s, Public Records, Ethics, Check Domain Names, General Research and Writing With Numbers.

Editing and Fact-Checking Resources: The Toolbox's Copy Editing page has several new resources. The American Copy Editors Society has assembled a collection of 49 online quizzes about everything from AP Style and usage to Iraq and the Middle East. Related Resources: Copy Editing, General Research, History.

Student Resources: College and high school students will find many helpful Toolbox resources for researching papers, reporting and more: Reporting Tools, Public Records, History, Ethics and Copy Editing.

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ONLINE EDUCATION DANGERS

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As a journalism educator I meet students who are the first in their families to attend a university. They include foreign students, who are recent immigrants and US citizens from low-income families.

WORLD EDUCATION UNIVERSITY

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World Education University represents a game changing paradigm shift in the American and global education model by providing tuition free education to all.

Aiming to be a comprehensive education ecosystem with programs from “Pre K to Gray,” WEU first seeks to be an accredited provider of high quality, university degrees and credentials that are offered to anyone, anytime, anywhere.