It’s always useful to take a fresh look at the original coverage, both as a reference and to help spark new ideas. Here are some quick links to Sept. 11-related coverage still available online:
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Newsday: Newsday has kept online a complete archive of the newspaper’s coverage of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. Newsday.com also has a special section on the rebuilding of Ground Zero. |
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USA Today: The newspaper’s site has a nice archive but it’s hard to find. The “America on Alert” index includes related graphics and multimedia and even links to all the “key stories” from Sept. 11 and since then, broken down by day. |
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The New York Times: Unfortunately The Times no longer has a complete Sept. 11 archive online and charges for most stories more than a month old on its site. But links to some of its fine work can still be found on its “A Nation Challenged” page, and the powerful “Portraits of Grief” remain live and searchable. |
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The Washington Post: Complete coverage of “America at War,” including a searchable archive of all related stories. |
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MSNBC.com: Coverage of the war on terror on “The Home Front” and the war abroad, plus an archive of the site’s coverage from Sept. 11. |
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CNN.com: Complete coverage of the war on terror, plus day-by-day archived coverage of the week of the attacks. |
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ABCNEWS.com: Day-by-day archived coverage from September, plus an index of coverage since then. |
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BBC: A nice package on “America’s Day of Terror,” plus complete coverage since then. |
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The New Yorker: The New Yorker doesn’t put its entire magazine or archives online, but in a rare treat the magazine has built a deep archive of its Sept. 11 coverage on the Web, including filings from dozens of correspondents. |
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Television Archive: Reactions around the globe have been captured in thisarchive of television news broadcasts from the period following the attacks. |
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Yahoo’s Full Coverage: It doesn’t go all the way back to Sept. 11, but this section has more than two dozen pages linking to hundreds of related stories and sites from across the world. |
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Interactive Publishing’s Digital Archive: A collection of screen shots from 230 news Web sites around the world on Sep 11 and 12. |
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Poynter.org Terrorism Archive: Dozens of stories by Poynter’s experts analyzing Sept. 11 coverage and related issues, plus images of hundreds of newspaper front pages from Sept. 11 and 12. |
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More Screen Shots: More screen shots of online news sites covering the attacks(Compiled by Craig Saila) |
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E-mail Bulletins: Archive of news bulletins on the attacks (Compiled by J.D. Lasica) |
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Infographics: Links to news infographics related to the attacks (Compiled by Paul Dixon) |
Interesting examples of online storytelling:
A few interesting articles about online coverage:
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Best of Web in worst of times — great examples, analysis of what sites actually did (By Steve Outing, Poynter Institute) |
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Media critics see Web role emerge (By Jordan Raphael, Online Journalism Review) |
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Articles about Internet coverage of the attacks (Compiled by Paul Grabowicz) |
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Tips for online news sites on covering the attacks (By Steve Outing, Poynter Institute) |
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Examples online journalists can learn from (By Steve Outing, Poynter Institute) |
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A scorecard for Net news ethics (By J.D. Lasica, Online Journalism Review) |
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Web rises to challenge TV |