The Journalist’s Library is where to find articles that discuss the art and practice of journalism as well as get the knowledge and skills you need — techniques, methods, ethics, style and more. We cover both the online and print worlds and the ways they complement each other.

Here you can build basic interviewing skills to help you report and write news about and for diverse communities. You can also learn how to conduct research using an assortment of tools, including your local library, search engines and online databases. We give you tools to help you judge the comparative importance of facts and see past spin.

Once you’ve gathered the information you need for your story, we can help you craft engaging, accurate leads that work for the story you’re writing, be it hard news or a feature, profile or blog entry. There are articles on how to choose good quotes, sound bites and images, and ones that give insight on how to attribute quotes and references properly. Understanding basic legal and ethical issues is a central part of being a responsible, skilled journalist.

We can help you find your voice and enable you to write clearly and succinctly, with correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. There are also tips for meeting deadlines and delivering the story you have to write in the time you have to the word count you must meet.

Article are arranged by category as well as tagged for easy searching; tags can be browsed in the “tags” box on the right, where you’ll also find the latest content and user comments.