Ever wonder what literary agents do? In search of an agent to help you publish your own writing? If the answer to either question is yes, peruse AgentQuery for "the internet's largest free database of literary agents." This website contains resources for both Writers and Agents, with information on Publishing and E-Publishing, as well as Networking guidance. The Resources tab also lists many...

The American Press Institute has been providing high-quality resources for practicing journalists for years, and now visitors with a penchant for the field can find out about some of these helpful materials on this site. While their homepage can be a bit visually hard to follow, the resources here are top-notch, and include some first-rate publications, such as “Reaching Latino Audiences” and...

While many people get their news fix online from such reputable sources as the New York Times, the Washington Post, or other such publications, some may also want to know more about the newspaper industry itself. For such information, visitors will want to look at the online edition of Editor & Publisher, which contains news updates about the world of the newspaper business. On the site, visitors...

Wallace Invented 'New Style, New Comedy' http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94629055 Author created 'Jest' in Syracuse http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/base/news-15/122155534751021.xml&coll=1 In Memoriam: David Foster Wallace [pdf] http://www.pomona.edu/ADWR/president/dfw1.shtml Considering David Foster Wallace...

For those Scout Report readers who may be looking for a job in the vast world of higher education, the Higher Education Jobs website will be a real find. Online since 1996, the website serves as a clearinghouse of available job opportunities, ranging from such positions as a custodial engineer in a small college in western New York to an assistant professor of Egyptology at a major research...

Noted editor and literary critic Margaret Anderson once referred to the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven as "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." The future Baroness was born Else Hildegard Ploetz in 1874 and she came to the United States in 1910. After her husband committed suicide, Else become a part of the Greenwich Village artist milieu, where...

In 1975, a group of concerned reporters and investigative journalists met to share personal stories about reporting and writing. After one of their number suggested that what most characterizes the investigative reporter is "a sense of outrage", they agreed to form the group that is now known as Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). On their homepage, visitors can read more about their...

Founded in 2002, the Knight Center for Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin was created as a professional training and outreach program for journalists throughout the Americas. During its first year of existence, the Center focused its work on Brazil and Mexico and on establishing a series of seminars and workshops to train journalists from these countries. Other work involves working...

A portion of the Langston Hughes Papers are available here on Yale University's Digital Library site. Hughes' complete papers (1862-1980) are comprised of "letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects" and are available at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. For the digitized collection, visitors should click on the "See All Images" option on the...

The fantastic New York Public Library does it again with this most diverse and thoughtful site. The website shows their impressive offerings of upcoming live talks as well as providing their archived talks. Some of the upcoming guests that are featured are Ira Glass, Barbara Kingsolver, William Grimes, and Javier Marias. Fortunately, visitors who aren't in New York City won't miss out on these...