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3-2.
Career Resources Safari
Find three good resources related to your career by testing at least two
different search engines. Web sites change addresses frequently, so if
these links don't connect, search for the sites by name in a search engine.
Here are some media organizations to get you started:
Society
of Professional Journalists
Radio-Television News Directors Association
Newspaper
Association of America
American
Society of Newspaper Editors
International
Association of Business Communicators
National
Press Photographers Association
American
Association of Advertising Agencies
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3-3. Travel Safari
Before you go on
assignment to cover a news story, you should check maps, especially if
you are covering a disaster. You need alternative routes. In this assignment
you can learn how to use mapping programs on the Internet for business
or pleasure. Before you make any travel plans, check the Web. You'll be
surprised how much information you can find about places in just a few
minutes.
a. You are covering floods in the Midwest,
and you are going to use the Des Moines Register as your home base. To
start your search for a map that will pinpoint the location of the Register
at 715 Locust St. in downtown Des Moines, begin with the travel directories
of Yahoo, Infoseek,
Excite, Lycos,
RoadMaps.
b. Now try to find your own address on
a map.
c. Find some youth hostels in Paris, France
or other countries where you might want to participate in a Study Abroad
program or visit just for pleasure.
You might want to check Fodor's
Travel Guide for tips or the Hostelling
International site.
c-1. Explore the Louvre.
c-2. Find the International Herald Tribune
and other newspapers
you can get while you are in Paris.
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