Journalist’s Resource: Research on Today’s News Topics

Journalist’s Resource (JR) is a registration-free, open-access website (under a Creative Commons license) created by the staff and graduate students of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School to provide scholarly materials, covering numerous topics, to journalists, students, educators and the general public.

The simple layout, large tabs, easy-to-read hyperlinks and no advertisement clutter of the JR homepage makes it easy to navigate the six main sections of the website: About, Journalists, Instructors, Studies Database, Skills and Syllabi. The homepage also includes In the News and New Posts...