Journalism & Mass Communication Resources on the Web

The items listed below represent some of the best current sources for Journalism and Mass Communication. They contain numerous links to other websites which feature various aspects of this topic.

Advertising and Public Relations
e-Journals
Electronic Indexes to Newspaper and Magazine/Journal Articles
The First Amendment and Freedom of the press
General Sources
Historical Resources
News Sources
New Sources--Participatory
Organizations
Other
Photojournalism
Watchdog Groups

Advertising and Public Relations

AdAge.com (http://adage.com) -- The web site of Advertising Age, the standard news source for advertising professionals. Registration is required.
Advertising Age–DataCenter ( http://adage.com/datacenter/) -- The Data Center of Advertising Age provides many statistics useful for marketing and advertising.
AdWeek (http://www.adweek.com) -- A weekly news source for advertising people.
Advertising World ( http://advertising.utexas.edu/world) -- Not to be confused with the newspaper Advertising World, this is a site from the Advertising Department at the University of Texas at Austin. It includes links to and extensive list of resources for advertising and marketing professionals, students and teachers.
PR Watch ( http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues) -- From the Center for Media and Democracy, a site for public interest reporting on the public relations and public affairs industry.

e-Journals

The ISU Library has many electronic journals and other periodicals related to journal and mass communications. On the e-Library, under Collections, click on the link to e-Journals and e-Books. You can search by title or, search any title, and on the results page there a box to browse by subject category.

Guide to E-Journals in Journalism ( http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/ejournals/)

Electronic Indexes to Newspaper and Magazine/Journal Articles

Academic OneFile--Contains citations and many full-text articles on current events, general sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Access World News-- Fulltext access to over 1500 local, regional, national and international newspapers, including many Iowa Newspapers.
Communication Abstracts--Citations and abstracts of articles and other materials in all areas of communications research including journalism, public relations, and mass communications.
Ethnic Newswatch--Provides bibliographic citations and full-text articles appearing in numerous U.S. racial and ethnic minority newspapers, consumer magazines, and some journals. The database focus is on African American, American Indian, Asian American, and U.S. Latino publications, though periodicals from many other minority groups are also included. Contains citations and many full-text articles on current events, general sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe -- LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe covers top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research. The vast majority of the titles on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe are available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form.
Newspaper Source--Full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily

First Amendment and Freedom of the Press

First Amendment Center ( http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org) -- This is an excellent gateway for anyone doing research on any aspect of the First Amendment.
First Amendment Handbook (http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi) -- Guidebook to all areas of media law relevant to journalists. From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), a nonprofit organization providing free legal help to reporters and news organizations.
Committee to Protect Journalists (http://www.cpj.org/)-- An independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of punishment.
Free: The Freedom Forum Online ( http://www.freedomforum.org) -- The Freedom Forum is a foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. Their website is a compendium of links to information on First Amendment issues, newsroom diversity and world press freedom.
Future of the First Amendment ( http://firstamendment.jideas.org/) -- Study of the knowledge & attitudes of high school students, teachers, and administrators to the First Amendment.
A Guide to Journalist Shield Laws (http://www.poynterextra.org/shieldlaw/index.htm --You can search state-by-state for shield laws which protect journalists.
Index on Censorship (http://www.indexonline.org/) --A collections of writings from all over the world on free expression
The Media Institute Cornerstone Project ( http://www.mediainstitute.org/cornerstone/--A public awareness and education program in celebration of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (http://www.wifp.org/) --An organization founded in 1972 to promote communication among media and media-concerned women and make sure their voices are heard in our society.

General Sources

ACP/NSPA Student Media Sourcebook (http://www.studentpress.org/sourcebook) -- This site links to hundreds of organizations and resources that can help student journalists and journalism teachers do their jobs better
AJR Newslink ( http://newslink.org/news.html) -- Provides links to Web sites, and over 4,000 links to newspapers, radio and TV, magazines, broadcasters and news services world-wide.
AssignmentEditor.com ( http://assignmenteditor.com) -- A one-stop media resource page with links to hundreds of news and information sites.
The Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest (http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx)--Research and reporting on public policy issues related to the United States, and to the rest of the world.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Website (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu)
CyberJournalist.net ( http://www.cyberjournalist.net/) -- A news and resource site that focuses on how the Internet & other new technologies are changing the media.
Finding Data on the Internet ( http://www.robertniles.com/data) -- A wonderful one-stop site for journalists with links to data and statistics journalists routinely need when writing and researching a story.
Health News Review ( http://www.healthnewsreview.org/) -- Rating of news stories on health care in terms of accuracy, balance and completeness. Focus on health news.
Journalism Web Sites ( http://www.poynter.org/links)
Journalism and Mass Communication: General Resources (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism) -- Sponsored by the University of Iowa Libraries.
A Journlist's Guide to the Federal Courts (http://www.uscourts.gov/journalistguide/welcome.html)--This site was developed to help journalists who cover the U.S. Courts.
Journalist's Tools ( http://www.refdesk.com/jourtool.html#top) -- Links to reference tools and important sites for the student and the professional journalist.
The JournoList ( http://www.johnmorrish.com/journolist/)--An annotated list of sites to help journalists and journalism students use the internet.
k.i.s.s. of the Panopticon ( http://www.tranquileye.com/mirrors/panop/home.htm) -- A cultural theory and new media literacy Web site run by Dougie Bicket.
MCS: Media and Communication Studies Site (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html) -- Especially good for European coverage.
Media Awareness Network ( http://www.media-awareness.ca) -- A clearinghouse for media literacy resources, targeted to people interested in media influences.
Media Literacy Online Project (http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/home/) -- A collection of resources to help teach how to read and analyze the news critically.
MEGASOURCES: Surfing for Information and Journalism Resources (http://www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/megasources.htm) -- Links to resources
NewsLab (http://www.newslab.org) -- From Columbia University, this is a wonderful site for students and journalists with strategies for reporting and resources for all the hot stories in the news.
Pandia Newsfinder (http://www.pandia.com/news) -- Presents the day's news from the U.S. and around the world.
Power Reporting: Resources for Journalists ( http://www.powerreporting.com) -- Thousands of research tools for journalists, annotated and updated daily.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (http://www.people-press.org) -- An independent opinion research group that studies public attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues.
Project for Excellence in Journalism ( http://www.journalism.org) -- A site for reportage on improving the standards of the new media.
Reporting the Arts: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America (http://www.najp.org/publications/researchreports/rta2.html) -- A study of how the arts are covered in newspapers in America.
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs) -- This site contains a collection of scholarly resources on cyberculture.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Communications and Media (http://vlib.org/Communication) -- Good place to start, with hundreds of links for everything you need to know about journalism.
www.theory.org.uk (http://www.theory.org.uk) -- This site covers areas such as class materials, communication theories, web culture and queer theory. It offers much as a source of new aspects of communication theory dealing with television, movies, and web culture.

Historical Resources

Ad*Access ( http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess) -- From Duke University, Ad*Access presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
British Library Newspaper Library (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html) -- The national archive collection in the United Kingdom of British and overseas newspapers ... combining facilities for the collection, preservation, and use of newspapers all on one site.
Guide to Newspapers held in the Microforms Center, Parks Library, Iowa State University ( http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/newsproc/historicalmicroform.pdf)
HarpWeek, The Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age I, II & III (1857-1891) (http://app.harpweek.com) -- This searchable and browsable database contains all the pages of Harper's weekly (1857-1865) as scanned images, together with a series of four indexes: subject, illustrations, literature & publishing, and advertising. Boolean operators may be used in searching the indexes. There are also groupings for literary genre and occupation/role which provide cross-index access for special categories of materials.
Library of American Broadcasting ( http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB) -- Provides access to a range of materials and resources related to the history of broadcasting.
Newsfilm Library at The University of South Carolina (http://www.sc.edu/newsfilm) -- Movietone newsreels from 20th Century Fox, including all existing outtakes (1919-1944) and complete newsreels from 1942 through August 1944.
Print Advertisements ( http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cmx/resources/adcoll&exhibits.htm) -- This page links to many digital collections of advertisements from all time periods, as well as advertising exhibits and museums. There is also a section linking to advertising awards.
Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University ( http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu) -- Descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic & 1/2 inch VHS format are available for a fee from the Archive.

News Sources

ABCNEWS.com (http://www.abcnews.com) -- Provides in-depth, breaking news, sports, weather and other information from around the world.
American Journalism Review News Link ( http://www.newslink.org)
BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk) -- Daily news stories from the UK and around the world.
CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com) -- Information on the network's news and programs.
Citizen Media Initiatives List (http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php) -- Includes links to "the more ambitious" citizens media efforts that have been launched recently.
CNN World News Main Page (http://www.cnn.com/WORLD) -- Daily world news events arranged by region and topic. Includes news archives and search engine.
Drudge Report (http://www.drudgereport.com) -- Provides links to web sites on international news services, journalists/columnists, and people in the news. Includes search engines for AP, UPI, and Reuters news services.
Europe Online (http://www.europeonline.com) -- Gateway to a wide variety of sites covering most European countries, organized by country and by topic. Topical emphases include news, business, arts and culture, travel and leisure, and mass media. Includes a search engine.
HeadlineSpot (http://www.headlinespot.com) -- A gateway to web sites for print & broadcast news. Includes local & national news sources.
ITAR/TASS (http://www.itar-tass.com/eng) -- Russia's state information agency.
Kidon Media-Link ( http://www.kidon.com/media-link) -- A massive linking to newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, film studios, news agencies, and "related web sites." International in scope.
LANIC: Newspapers ( http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/) -- Links to newspapers in Latin America and around the world.
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/news) -- Up to the minute news from around the globe.
National Press Club. Library and Research, Reporter's Internet Resources (http://www.press.org/library/resources.cfm) -- This site is organized into categories that represent standard news values: who, what, where when, why, and how.
NBC.COM (http://www.nbc.com) -- Information on the network's news and programs.
NewsCenter ( http://www.freepint.com/gary/newscenter.htm) -- Links to national and international news sites.
Newsline (http://www.rferl.org/newsline) -- A daily report of developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia prepared by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Pajamas Media (http://www.pajamasmedia.com/) -- News as interpreted by bloggers. "A unique home for the growing movement of citizen journalism."
Regret the Error ( http://www.regrettheerror.com/) -- This site reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy in the media.
Television News Archive ( http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu) -- An archive of television news from ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and other news sources from 1989 - present.
US Newspaper Archives on the Web (http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html) -- Links to U.S. newspaper home pages or their library/archive pages, sorted by state. Non-U.S. archives are also available.
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com)
VOANews.com ( http://www.voanews.com/english/portal.cfm
Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) -- Links to a wide variety of news sources arranged by topical area, as well as comics and classified advertisements. Includes search engine and customization service.

News Sources--Participatory

Nowpublic (http://www.nowpublic.com/node/161611 --A participatory news network with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries.
Citizen Media Initiatives List (http://cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php)--A listing of citizen's media efforts.

Organizations

Advertising Organizations and Associations (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cmx/resources/adorg.htm) -- Links to organizations and associations relevant to the advertising professional or student.
Broadcast Education Association (http://www.beaweb.org) -- A professional association for those interested in electronic media.
Center for Media and Democracy ( http://www.prwatch.org/cmd) -- A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting ( http://www.fair.org) -- A national media watch group that watches for media bias and imbalance.
Federal Communications Commission (http://www.fcc.gov) -- Find out all about the government agency that regulates the nation's interstate and international communications by television, radio, wire, satellite and cable
Journalism Organizations and Associations (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cmx/resources/journassocorg.htm) -- Links to organizations and associations in the world of journalism.
Media Studies Associations & Organizations (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/cmx/resources/mediaorg.htm) -- Links to associations in media studies.
National Association of Black Journalists (http://www.nabj.org/ )
National Association of Hispanic Journalists ( http://www.nahj.org/home/home.shtml)
National Federation of Press Women (http://www.nfpw.org/)

Other

The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields ( http://fm.iowa.uiowa.edu/fmi/xsl/iowaguide/search.xsl?-db=iowaguide&-lay=plain&-view)--From the homepage of this valuable resource: This 16-year-old publication helps scholars find appropriate journals in which to publish their work and offers advice on how to prepare manuscripts for publication. . . . Some of the journals focus on journalism, mass communication or communication as their primary concerns. Others address communication in the context of another discipline, such as law or sociology, or they include communication under an interdisciplinary umbrella such as popular culture or women�s studies."
Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html) -- An annotated collection of links to the best and most up-to-date citation guides that show how to properly cite resources from the Internet. Style guides for APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, BSE, styles and a description of how to cite references from Lexis/Nexis.
Visit the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication Reading Room (http://www.jlmc.iastate.edu/resources/readingroom/)

Photojournalism

The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: Photojournalism Resources (http://www.photojournalism.org/searchh.html)--Links to sites concerning photojournalism and photography.
Editorial Photo ( http://www.editorialphoto.com/)--Students can learn about copyright, contract reviews, and use a pricing tool for editorial assignments. Lots of other useful information as well.
Ethics Matters ( http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/nppa.html)--Columns on ethics as related to photojournalism by Deni Elliott, Director of the Practical Ethics Center at the University of Montana and Paul Martin Lester, Professor at the Department of Communications, California State University, Fullerton. These columns originally appeared in News Photographer Journal.
PictureEditor.com--Links ( http://www.pictureeditor.com/links.html)--Links to very practical information about equipment and industry news as well as links to photozines, organizations, and continuing education.
PoynterOnline--Photojournalism ( http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=29)--Another excellent site for all kinds of interesting information and sites on photojournalism.
World Press Photo (http://www.worldpressphoto.org/ )--The mission of World Press Photo is "to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information." Links to seminars, contests, education resources, and awards.
Links to associations associated with Photojournalism:

Watchdog Groups

Accuracy in Media (http://www.aim.org/)--A political conservative group that "critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage."
Media Matters for America ( http://mediamatters.org/about_us/)--Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation � news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda � every day, in real time.
No Place to Hide (http://www.noplacetohide.net/) -- From the Center for Investigative Reporting, this is a collection of links to investigations into surveillance and data collection on the part of the government since 9/11.
Project Censored ( http://www.projectcensored.org) -- Project Censored is a media research organization which tracks news published in independent news sources. It compiles a yearly list of 25 stories that have been "overlooked, under-reported or self-censored" by the major news media outlets.

Rebecca Jackson
August, 2007

For comments and suggestions: Jan Fryer
jfryer@iastate.edu

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