2. Investigations
“The Center for Public Interest: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest” has a Web site with a somewhat archaic appearance. The first image of purple chess pieces and waves of neon green remind of special effects from ’80s movies.

But there are some interesting features, the most prominent of which is a search box that peruses an assembled database of FCC files and reveals what companies own the media in your neighborhood. It’s pretty nifty, though the visuals are somewhat soporific. The links are straightforward enough, but there is very little multimedia here, if any. A sidebar that breaks down the various media industries (entertainment, broadcast, newspapers, etc.) has links to graphs of annual revenues, a wonderful resource for professional investigative journalists.

The multimedia consists of lists to videos and broadcasts from various media sources. The video’s unifying theme seems to be anything that addresses evil government or evil corporations, inevitably “following the money” and exposing corruption (or sometimes just talking about the possibility of corruption).

But there are plenty of other resources here for the investigative journalist, including lists of important laws, sample open records request letters, and recent investigations.