Government Information in the News

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Libraries and other sites with good "in the news" links:

 America.gov: Telling America's Story (speeches and reports on current topics)
 Documents in the News (Northeastern University Law Library; detailed annotations)
 Documents in the News (Washington State Library; links to WA newspaper articles and the supporting documents, statistics, etc., related to them)
 DocuTicker (a blog with news from government agencies, ngo's and other related organizations)
 Evergreen State College ("Hot Topics")
 Eye on the Courts (links to newsworthy decisions from Cornell)
 Hot Docs: Government Documents in the News (Columbia University; emphasizes New York news)
 JURIST Gazette: Documents in Legal News (University of Pittsburgh School of Law; has separate US and World categories)
 New Mexico News Plus (New Mexico State Library; links to documents, statistics, etc., supporting news stories in NM newspapers)
University of Michigan (choose "Documents in the News" from the right)
USAID Disaster Assistance (information on worldwide disasters and the U.S.repsponses)
 White House Press Briefings

LLRX.com (which specializes in legal/technological issues) provides this great article: Government Documents in the News, by Peggy Garvin. It describes in detail several of the sites listed above and includes a stimulating discussion on the need for better citations to government information in news articles.

Author: Kathleen L. Amen • Email: kamen@stmarytx.edu
URL: http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/doc/docsnews.htm
Created 1997 • Last updated • links checked February, 2010

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