Open Educational Resources (OER): Journalism

This subset of the MERLOT collection features openly licensed textbooks for use by students and faculty.

The Open Textbook Library is a collection of open textbooks that features reviews written by professors.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.

The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources.

The Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists, by Mark Lee Hunter and others, is the first text that treats investigative journalism as an integrated process focused on producing an original story.

Global Investigative Journalism: Strategies for Support focuses on supporting investigative journalism centers in developing countries and on the important role investigative reporting plays in holding governments accountable.

This text is intended to be an introduction to journalism research methods. It covers topics such as, Typology of Online Media, Genres in Online Journalism, News and Database Architecture, Research Methodologies in Journalism, Narrativity, Researching Participatory Journalism, Production Routines, and Media Convergence.

Statistics is an applied field with a wide range of practical applications which a student does not have to be a math expert to understand even when using real, interesting data.

This book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone who thinks that they might be interested in becoming a data journalist, or dabbling in data journalism. Lamentably the act of reading this book will not supply you with a comprehensive repertoire of all if the knowledge and skills you need to become a data journalist.

The Casebook serves as a complementary material for training purposes. It will also enable and enhance the exchange of good practices and networking in investigative journalism throughout the world.

This collection of lectures form the University of Oxford features audio recordings of discussions on topics such as "Leaks, Snowden, and the Guardian", "How Mobile Phones are changing journalism practice in the 21st century, and "The Strengths and Weaknesses of Social Media."