News Research Without Borders: Covering the

War in Iraq at

Special Libraries AssociationAnnual Conference

June 2004

Daily News Updates from the Research Center:

Daily updates of Nexis alerts with email notification—to o’seas correspondents

Daily email of Coalition Provisional Authority briefing transcripts from Federal News Service

Daily update and email of Lexis-Nexis Intranet Publisher—for stateside staff

Websites:

Subscription Databases: Jane’s

Jane's OnlineJane's Terrorism Intelligence Center   

Websites:

Subscription Databases: Jane’s

Jane's OnlineJane's Terrorism Intelligence

Center   E-Mail Alert: Jane's Security News Briefs

News from Foreign Press:

Continuously updated Nexis search posted on remote intranet: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts

World Press Review--Daily E-Mail Alert 

News from Foreign Press:

Continuously updated Nexis search posted on remote intranet: BBC Summary of World Broadcasts

World Press Review--Daily E-Mail Alert 

EINnews - Iraq Today Daily Brief (subscription required)

News from Foreign Press:

World News Connection (FBIS) -- subscription database posted on internal and remote intranets.  Used for specific requests, although alerts could be set up on Dialog. 

U.S. State Dept. - Foreign Media Reaction -- reports on foreign media coverage of significant events.

Middle East News Sites in English -- list (w/links) from Brookings Inst. Saban Center: useful list of websites to check for coverage of key stories. 

Web News Aggregators:

GlobalSecurity.org -- has latest news, hot docs, hot topics. Has unique information such as satellite image maps and photos; full text of reports, etc.

Web News Aggregators:

GlobalSecurity.org -- has latest news, hot docs, hot topics. Has unique information such as satellite image maps and photos; full text of reports, etc.

Global Policy Forum --

Web News Aggregators:

GlobalSecurity.org -- has latest news, hot docs, hot topics. Has unique information such as satellite image maps and photos; full text of reports, etc.

Global Policy Forum -- Future of Iraq Portal --

Additional Web News Aggregators: OccupationWatch.org -- Weekly e-

mail alert available: Occupation Watch Bulletin 

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty -- Post Saddam Iraq - Daily News Reports-updated throughout the day- on scene reporting from expert reporters; also has daily and weekly e-mail alerts

E-Mail Alert Services:

 General Foreign News: Global Beat (NYU): select articles

of interest forward to our correspondents. 

E-Mail Alert Services:

 General Foreign News: Global Beat (NYU) -- select articles

of interest & forward to reporters on beats. 

International Crisis Group (ICG) -- e-mail alert on new reports. 

IISS Strategic Comments (subscription) -- sent via e-mail to Research Center and re-distributed to reporters.

Iraq and Terrorism: 

MEMRI—Middle East Media Research Instute

Iraqi Press Monitor -- daily survey of the main stories in Iraq's newspapers.

Iraq Blogs:

Informed Comment by Juan Cole -- widely respected scholar on Iraq updates blog several times a day; monitor via RSS feed (Bloglines); weekly e-mail alert available.

War In Context by Paul Woodward -- weekly e-mail alert available 

Think Tanks:

Council on Foreign Relations -- updated reports on Iraq & Terrorism; e-mail alerts available 

CSIS -- scan for new reports.  Washington Institute on Near East

Policy -- Policy Watch papers on terrorism, Iraq

Brookings/Saban Center for Middle East Policy -- scan for new articles, reports; e-mail alerts available.

Research Challenges: Maps

Omni Resources: street maps of Baghdad CIA Maps of Saddam’s Palaces Military Press: 3 vol book: The Other Side

of the Mountain: Mujahadeen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War, including maps of Tora Bora Caves

U.S. Nat’l Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (formerly NIMA)—great source for inexpensive, scale maps for purchase and also the GEOnet Names Server gazetteer

Research Challenges: Maps GlobalSecurity.org – great source for

satellite imagery and other maps

Research Challenges:

U.S. Troop Casualties in Iraq DOD Military Casualty Statistics --

Deaths & Wounded -- breaks down by gender

CENTCOM News releases on Troop Casualties in Iraq

DOD Press Releases on Casualties Iraq Coalition Casualty Count

(Lunaville.org)

Research Challenges: Casualties cont.

Google News Search – hometown paper may run story before DOD releases name

Iraq Body Count – for Iraqi civilian deaths

Research Challenges--Statistics

Brookings Institution/Saban Iraq Index (“Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq“)

Research Center’s Terror Network Names Database: Tracks names of individuals connected

with Terrorism investigations -- updated from news reports by name by alias by nationality by organization

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News From Foreign Press: World Press Review:

http://www.worldpress.org/ EINnews: http://www.einnews.com/ State Dept. Foreign Media Reaction:

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/medreac.htm Middle East News Sites in English,

Brookings/Saban Center: http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/news.htm

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Web News Aggregators: GlobalSecurity.org:

http://globalsecurity.org/ Global Policy Forum (Iraq

Crisis/What’s New): http://www.globalpolicy.org/visitctr/whatnew.htm

Future of Iraq Portal: http://www.justinalexander.net/iraq/

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Additional News Aggregators OccupationWatch.org

http://www.occupationwatch.org/ Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

(Post Saddam Iraq) http://www.rferl.org/specials/iraqcrisis/

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E-Mail Alert Services—General Foreign News: Global Beat:

http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/ International Crisis Group:

http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm IISS Strategic Comments:

http://www.iiss.org/stratcomments.php

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Iraq and Terrorism: MEMRI (Middle East Media Research

Institute): http://www.memri.org/ Iraqi Press Monitor:

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?iraq_ipm_index.html

Blogs: Informed Comment:

http://www.juancole.com/ War In Context.org

http://warincontext.org/

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Think Tanks: Council on Foreign Relations:

http://www.cfr.org/ Center for Strategic and International

Studies (CSIS): http://www.csis.org/ Washington Institute on Near East

Policy (Focus on Iraq): http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/

Brookings Inst./ Saban Center for Middle East Policy: http://www.brookings.edu/sabancenter/

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Maps: Omni Resources:

http://www.omnimap.com/ (The) Military Press:

http://www.militarypress.co.uk/ U.S. Nat’l Geospatial-Intel Agency:

http://www.nima.mil/portal/site/nga01/ GEOnet Names Server:

http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp

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Casualty Figures: DOD Military Casualty Statistics:

http://www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm CENTOCM:

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/casualties.asp DOD press releases on casualties:

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/ Iraq Coalition Casualty Count (lunaville):

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx Iraq Body Count:

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm

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Reconstruction Statistics Brookings Institution / Saban Iraq

Index http://www.brookings.edu/iraqindex