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American Journalism Review . Winner of the GJR testimonial to the best online national journalism review (updated weekly) seen by the editor in 1998. News of other national online journalism reviews welcomed. Check it out at http://www.newslink.org/

British Journalism Review. Survives in a difficult environment. An astute editor (Geoffrey Goodman, former industrial editor, Daily Mirror) is wary of academic media studies, and balances nostalgic reports from old hands with pertinent articles on professional issues by today's practitioners.
University of Luton Press. Details from ulp@luton.ac.uk

Columbia Journalism Review is America's bestknown professional journal. Current issue includes a feature by its editor-at-large, Neil Hickey, on the effects on newspaper and TV news of ownership of "aggressive, profit-seeking corporations."
Try it on http://www.cjr.org/

The Editor is a Saturday supplement in the Guardian (London), billed as a digest of the world's media. Its strong suit is the skilled summary. Its summaries of books, "The digested read," run to 450 words, but have an add-on paragraph "digest of the digest" of about four lines. Neat.
Email: the.editor@guardian.co.uk

Editor & Publisher, New York, is "the weekly newsmagazine (published continuously since 1884) every Saturday, for the newspaper industry and related businesses. News articles on all facets of newspapering..." The Editor & Publisher International Year Book, first published in 1921, and now also available on CD-ROM, lists all the dailies worldwide, with addresses, numbers, names ad rates, etc. Declaration of interest: the British and Irish sections for 25 years have been contributed by James Brennan, editor of Global Journalism Review. He was recruited while on the staff of The Guardian in 1976 by Robert U.Brown, then editor-in-chief. Robert's father, James Wright Brown, was running The Fourth Estate, another "newspapering" journal, when he bought control of E&P in 1912.
Web site: http://www.mediainfo.com/
Email: edpub@mediainfo.com

Free Press is the journal of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, which has launched a membership drive. Its conferences bring together authoritative speakers in the media and the politicians they hope to influence. The editor is Granville Williams. Freepress@cpbf.org.uk

Global Journalism Review. A companion publication to the online Global Journalism Review.. relaunch version will be available by post, with subscription details, from December 9.
The printed Global Journalism Review (ISSN 1465-1521) is complementary to the online publication, and a useful file for all journalists. A companion annual version, the Global Journalism Review Year Book, is also being planned.
Details from Brennan Publications, email brenmedia@btinternet.com
Subscription rates include postage appropriate to each postal zone.

Index on Censorship. International campaigner for free speech and publication, carries authoritative reports and interviews on important current issues, six times a year. Keeps records of trial, imprisonment or harassment of journalists throughout the world.
Details contact@indexoncensorship.org

Media Lawyer updates essential to editors.One of the valuable aids for editors these days is a regular update on legal matters, and Media Lawyer is exactly that. It is much more, too, in its authoritative reporting and discussion of laws before they are enacted, and its support for the views of concerned journalists.

Published every two months, Media Lawyer is edited and published by Tom Welsh, former newspaper editor, and one-time director of journalism at City University, London.

For some years he has been joint editor, with Walter Greenwood, of the NCTJ's Essential Law for Journalists (published by Butterworth), and both have been actively involved in media law as an examination subject.

Every new edition of Essential Law is eagerly snapped up by thoughtful editors and their deputies - especially those under managerial duress, presiding over a stream of cheap, untrained and insecure workers.

Many now miss the experienced chief sub-editors and other gatekeepers so carelessly thrown out or sidelined by cost-cutting managers who see the "editorial part" of a newspaper as a mere adjunct to advertising. You don't believe it ? Go to a meeting of the Society of Editors - listen and learn.

Between editions of Essential Law, Tom Welsh's periodical is especially useful, but should always be on a handy shelf - and among the professional "favourites" on your own web site.

Media Lawyer, six issues £30, from 3 Broom Close, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria LA20 6JG. Tel. 01229 716622 (fax 716621). Email: Media_Lawyer@compuserve.com

Nieman Reports sets tone for serious journalism Described as "the journal for serious reporters," Nieman Reports was launched in 1947 in response to a national commission which deplored the standards of journalism in the United States. It claims to be the first journalism review in the US.
It appoints Nieman Fellows, and publishes articles on objectivity in reporting, ethics in journalism, and welfare reform. Subscription is $20 for one year and $35 for two (international subscribers $30 or $55). For details, access the site and click on subscription form.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/Nieman%20Reports%20Frame.html

Press Gazette is the UK's weekly journal for up-to-date news of events and people in the media, still significant in spite of weekly media pages now in all the serious daily newspapers.
Email: pged@qpp.co.uk

Statewatch is the bulletin (six a year) of the organisation of the same name, covering civil liberties and justice and home affairs in the European Union.

It has a searchable database on the Internet with 24,000 entries, including full-text reports and features.

The editor is Tony Bunyan. Details from: statewatch-off@geo2.poptel.org.uk

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