A great resource for Journalism students at high schools or colleges. OJR's Guide to Online Reporter Resources is a great place to start students that want to do journalism research online. Part of information literacy is to know the veracity of the source of information. If newspapers or other media you access on the web are controlled by their government, you should know that. Consult the map on the main page to get a quick view of free, partly free, and not free media countries.
Access reports from the individual countries to get a more detailed picture.
To familiarize a large number of students with fundamental research skills, the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin developed this online tutorial. TILT is a Web-based, educational site designed to teach undergraduates fundamental research skills. In each module students will learn concepts and practice them through interactions. At the conclusion of each module, they can test their comprehension and receive immediate feedback. Each module takes less than 30 minutes to complete.