Resources For Reporters

This site is no longer being updated, but is still available as a reference. Some links may be broken.

Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada

Currency converter (Bank of Canada)
Metric converter (Digital Dutch)
Inflation calculator (Bank of Canada)
Translate Web pages (Google)
Maps (Google)
incl. Google Transit - Halifax
Blog search using Google Blog Search or Technorati -- useful for researching rapidly evolving issues
Alerts (Google) -- receive an e-mail message when new content that you want appears on the web
DNS & IP Tools: Find the geolocation of an IP address, change an IP address to a domain. (See also WHOIS lookups under "Find People")
Twitter: Find People (requires login) or use Tweeps; find tweets from Haligonians (within 15km)

See local event listings in The Coast, the Chronicle Herald, Kijiji, Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax Metro Centre, Exhibition Park
Check news releases on Canada Newswire. The Media Daybook gives a daily summary of events happening across Canada. To find news releases that pertain to the Atlantic region, do a keyword search for Halifax and for Nova Scotia.
HRM & N.S. Government news releases
Al's Morning Meeting -- a webpage maintained by the Poynter Institute's Al Tompkins. Offers "Story ideas that you can localize and enterprise."

Canadian Encyclopedia
Wikipedia -- Open-source encyclopedia
Google Knol -- Encyclopedia by community of experts
Columbia Encyclopedia
Encylopedia Britannica (Concise)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
CIA World Factbook -- datasheet on countries
Virtual Reference Library (Toronto Public Library)
How Stuff Works.com
Internet Archive Wayback Machine -- View websites as they once were
Librarian's Internet Index -- a searchable directory of Web resources administered by the state librarian of California.

JournalismNet -- Resource for journalists maintained by Canadian Julian Sher
Wikileaks -- Publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct