Note:  All links going to other websites will open in the same window. Use the Back button to return to our site.

This page provides links to useful resources and tools for communicators.

The Fourth Estate

The Fourth Estate (or fourth power) is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. "Fourth Estate" most commonly refers to the news media, especially print journalism or "the press". Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain.

• The Atlantic unbound
• Biography
• BMC Biology is an open access journal publishing outstanding research in all areas of biology, with a publication policy that combines selection for broad interest and importance with a commitment to serving authors well.
• CA Communication Arts
• Capitol Communicator
• C|Net
• CNN
• C-SPAN
• Cricket for Kids science magazines: Babybug, Ladybug, Click, Spider, Ask, Cricket, Muse, Cicada
• Datamation
• eReleases a press release distribution service for small businesses
• FastCompany.com
• Fortune500
• Georgetowner, The
• Globalist, The
• InformationWeek
• InfoWorld
• Time Life Photography
• Techradar/Apple the new home of MacLife
• Maryland Public Television (MPT)
• Military Times
• The Moscow Times
• NASA Spaceflight.comm at https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ for recent space news.
• Check out all NASA podcasts at:
  https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts
• NASA Tech Briefs The Design/Engineering Technology Digest
• National Journal
• National Press Club (NPC)
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Network Computing
• New Scientist
• The Freedom Forum fosters First Amendment freedoms for all.  Updated
• Newspapers
  • Baltimore Sun
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Mondo Times a world-wide media guide
  • New York Times
  • The Onion news parodies
  • USA Today
  • Wall Street Journal
  • The Washington Diplomat international newspaper for Washington-based foreign embassies
  • The Washington Examiner for Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia
  • Washington Post
  • Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB) for celebrity speakers
  • Washington Technology
  • Washington Times
• Cision distribution by PR Newswire provides media software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals
• Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
• Reuters News Service
• Salon Magazine
• SatireWire | Cubists Launch Unnavigable Website—sadly Satirewire shut down in 2002 then reopened in 2010, but is now gone in 2021.
• Science
• Scientific American
• Slate Magazine international newspaper for Washington-based foreign embassies
• Space News
• Speakers
  • Washington Speakers Bureau for celebrity speakers
• Lists of Television Channels
• World TV a directory of world television channels
• Washington Business Journal
• Washingtonian Magazine Online
• Washington Monthly
• Web Del Sol the new literary arts
• Wired Magazine
• ZDNet

Related Links