Editorial Research Project: Home
MHS Databases-Usernames and Passwords
Reference Databases
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Periodical Databases
- Gale in Context High School This link opens in a new window
- Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
- EBSCO Host Ultra This link opens in a new window
- Newsbank This link opens in a new window
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Monroe County Public Library Resource Links
Political News Spectrum
- All Sides - Bias AllSides automatically delivers multiple perspectives on any topic to reveal bias, engage users, and connect people for civil conversations.
- Ad Fontes - Reliability and Bias Ad Fontes was founded in 2018 to meet the demand for a map to help people navigate the complex media landscape, as well as for comprehensive content analysis of media sources themselves. This is the Media Bias Chart, in its latest iteration. It’s a unique way of laying out the complex media landscape in two dimensions: news value and reliability, on the vertical axis, and bias, on the horizontal axis.
- Politcal Calculation A potentially more useful site for determining media political bias.
Source Evaluation
- How to Evaluate a Source Detailed but accessible information on the nuances of source evaluation including suggestions for academic v. common information needs.
- Books v. Journals v. Websites Each type of information source has its strengths and weaknesses. This link efficiently highlights the potential pros and cons of 3 common types of information.
- SNOPES Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.
Idea Generators
The Original Inspiration
Open Web Resources
Statistics
- Cornell University - International and U.S. Statistics A guide, similar in look and construction to this one, but with a much richer array of suggested links for world and U.S. statistics.
Research documents
Lateral Reading Video
How to Write an Editorial
- How to Write an Editorial A short tutorial on how to write an editorial from no less than Andy Rosenthal, editor of the editorial section of the NY Times. Watch and learn.
