For reporters & editors
Summer Olympics: We've added several new resources, including links to blood doping and sports medicine sites, to the Toolbox's 2008 Summer Olympics section, including history, records, events, background on host city, Olympic organizations, news coverage and issues such as human rights and air pollution at the Games. InfoPlease offers a handy timeline of events, medal counts and other helpful statistics that would be helpful for fact-checking on deadline. CNN iReport has a community journalism page for the Summer Olympics and invites people to submit photos and video from Beijing. For more Olympics coverage, use the tools in the Toolbox's International News Sites section. More Resources: Sports Medicine, Sports Business, Sports Sociology and Sports Law.
Severe Weather Resources: The Toolbox's Weather section features several online storm trackers and resources on tropical storms and hurricanes, including history of past storms. You'll also find some helpful flooding-related resources in the Public Safety section.
Elections and Technology: Tech President is a great blog, run by the Presidential Democracy Forum, that tracks various campaign sites, postings on YouTube, etc. This site provides a great snapshot of how candidates are using the web. Everyzing is a search tool that finds campaign-related audio and video. HuffingtonPost.com: Fundrace has an interactive map and database that helps you track presidential contributions by address, zip code, party, candidate, etc. Find more resources in the Election 2008 section.