NewsTeam Class

  • Welcome
  • Spring 2018 Syllabus
  • Spring 2018 Timetable
  • Spring 2018 Positions
  • Deadlines
  • Grading
  • Workflow Recommendations
  • NewsTeam Jobs
  • Panasonic DVX200 Instructions
  • How to Submit Stories
  • Lower Thirds
  • Reporter Live Fronting
  • Exporting Video
  • Feature Stories
  • News Packages
  • Same-Day Stories
  • VOSOTS
  • Social Media
  • Posting Web Stories
  • Inception News
  • Research and Writing
  • Weather
  • Camera and Editing
  • CNN Newsource
  • Resume Reel Guidelines
  • NewsTeam Alums
  • Blooper Reels
  • TV Reporting Camera


Research Tips

A good place to start is with the phone. Give sources a ring to learn more about a topic and to get information on people you can interview. We've compiled a list of contacts from the campus that might occasionally need updating. But check it out here under the link below:

CU and City of Boulder Contacts


If you're having a challenging time coming up with ideas, then click here to learn more about Generating Story Ideas.


Click below to view research tips at

Norlin Library.


Accessing the Invisible Web

There is a vast majority of information available online that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. In fact, Bright Planet estimates that the "invisible" or Deep Web is 500 times bigger than the searchable surface of the Web.

  • Direct Search (provides search listings on all kinds of information): directsearch.net/
  • Resource Discovery Network (an Internet hub for learning, teaching and research): http://www.intute.ac.uk/
  • Infomine (literally, information about mining): http://infomine.ucr.edu/
  • Portico (list of links for finding backgrounds for people, businesses, etc.): http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/home.html


CU and the Invisible Web

  • http://libraries.colorado.edu
  • http://www.colorado.edu/police/index/html
  • http://www.colorado.edu/pba/facstaff/facsal/


Some other useful sites

  • Census.gov
  • Congress.gov
  • Recovery.gov; recovery.org
  • Icasualties.org
  • GovTrack.us (tracking the U.S. Congress)


Weather and Traffic

  • NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/
  • CDOT: http://www.dot.state.co.us/
  • CO Trip: http://www.cotript.org/home.htm