The Nov/Dec issue of the IRE Journal includes the following articles:
FOI REPORT: With so much data now, story potential abounds on school testing front
Schools Web site provides an education
GUNS: Recycled police weapons find their way to criminals
Government Ethics
TEACHING: Newsrooms use state school data to create index
And the cover story: Digging Deeper at City Hall: Getting beneath the surface of local government

The U.S. Census Bureau's Facts for Features section has a new posting today for the 2004 Presidential Election. There are links for statistical tables on the 2000 election. North Carolina's voter turnout numbers compared to the U.S.: 56.1% v 59.5%

10 Tips on Writing Original Leads from Poynter's News Coach.

There are dictionaries and glossaries for hundreds of subjects on the web. For example, check out this Christmas Dictionary.

Glossarist is a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.

From the News Coach List Serv:

Newspaper Training Editors Guide: 'Collected wisdom of the sages';Traning Editors present their favorite exercises & ideas. And links to other Freedom Forum publications.

Do you know that you can do a Full-Text search from 120,000 Book Titles at Amazon?
This new service is called "Search Inside the Book" and allows you to search the full-text, over 33 million pages from over 120,000 titles. Of course, Amazon's primary motivation for offering this service is to sell books, but you can take advantage of the service for your own research purposes. Here is a link to their FAQs for this Search Inside the Book feature.

This is an interesting article from Discover Magazine's Emerging Technology section: How the Web Edits News by Steven Johnson. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this one.