Resources
A short, working list. Not a directory — the people who maintain those do it better than we would, and we've linked to them below.
Missing something? Tell us at the bottom of the page.
If you're a student
Student Press Law Center
Free legal help for student journalists. If an administrator kills your story, this is who you call.
New Voices New Jersey
New Jersey law protects student journalists from administrative censorship. Worth knowing what it covers before you need it.
Link coming soonSPJ Code of Ethics
Four principles, one page. Read it once and you'll know more about the job than most people publishing news online.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Free legal help on public records, subpoenas, and press freedom fights. Their hotline is real and it answers.
If you teach or advise
Garden State Scholastic Press Association
New Jersey's network of high school journalism advisors. Conferences, contests, and people who have already solved the problem you're having.
Poynter
Training and teaching material for journalism at every level. A lot of it is free.
News Literacy Project
Classroom-ready material on how to tell real reporting from everything else. Built for teachers, free, and genuinely good.
If you run a newsroom
New Jersey Civic Information Consortium
State-funded grants for local news and civic information projects. First-of-its-kind in the country, and it has put more than $12 million into New Jersey newsrooms.
Center for Cooperative Media
Training, collaboration, research, and back-office support for New Jersey newsrooms. They also maintain the most complete picture of who is covering what in this state.
American Journalism Project
Venture-philanthropy for local nonprofit newsrooms — they invest in the business side so the reporting can survive.
News Revenue Hub
Helps newsrooms build membership and reader revenue. For when the grant runs out.
The bigger picture
Who's covering your town
The Center for Cooperative Media tracks New Jersey's local news ecosystem. If you want to know what still exists near you, start there.
Where the money has gone
The Civic Information Consortium publishes a map of every project it has funded across 19 of New Jersey's 21 counties.
Something missing?
We keep this list short on purpose, but we'd rather hear about a good resource than not. Especially if you run one.