Sites that provide in-depth background and reporting, analysis and commentary on issues. Most links are to in-depth feature packages or archives of media or other websites. Most of those also contain links to current material as well. It also contains links to other categories with background material or commentary and opinions.

If a writer has a specific focus or style of writing represented by a narrower category in the directory (for example, sportswriters), please submit to that category only (for example, Sports/Resources/News_and_Media/Columnists).

Please do not submit

• archives or collections of personal or amateur columns from unpublished authors: these are usually more appropriate to News/Analysis_and_Opinion/Personal or News Weblogs or any of the Personal Homepage categories in the directory.
• serialized works
• journals, ezines, message boards, or other collections from multple authors: these should be placed in the relevant category for the subject matter.

Please note that only sites in English language will be accepted to this category. To find an appropriate category for sites in other languages browse http://dmoz.org/World/.