Writer and writers resources

[Nihilist News Network (NNN)]

http://www.thenewsmanual.net/the_manuals.htm
This is a complete course in writing news stories.

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/
This is a list of guides on a broad range of topics, such as finding records and so on. This part of it, for example, covers civil lawsuits:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/civil-court-lawsuits/

http://www.mcgillreport.org/largemouth.htm
This outlines the structure of a typical story for citizen journalists.