Mass Communications Research Guide
Library Databases with Content in Media Criticism, Journalism, and Media Production
- Communications and Mass Media Complete
- Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database offers full text coverage of nearly 200 journals.
- Academic Search Premier
- Full text and indexing for over 600 journals related to communications and journalism.
- Business Search Premier
- Information related to the mass media industry.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Contains newspapers, legal cases, and law reviews. This database includes media law review articles and information about landmark media, copyright, and censorship cases of interest to Mass Communication students. News sources here may yield primary source material for media criticism and exemplary articles for journalism students, as well as coverage of current events in Mass Comm fields.
Mass Comm Web Links
General
- American Communication Association WWW Archives
- The Media History project
- American Communication Association: Communications Study Center
- The Freedom Forum
- "nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people".
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
- Television News Archive
- based at Vanderbilt University
- Living Room Candidate
- Presidential election commericals, 1952-2004
- 10K Watts
- list of radio and TV stations
- EarlyCinema.Com
- personal Web site discussing early days days of film
- Internet Movie Database
- a good reference site for information on films and television shows from every era.
Periodicals
Journalism
- Finding data on the Internet: a journalist's guide
- Journalist's Toolbox
- Cyberjournalist.net
- Newseum
- Washington, D.C., museum about the news media
- Reporter's Internet Resources
- from the National Press Club
- Investigative Reporters and Editors
- Psi-comlit
- bibliographic database about science and science communication
Media Criticism & Rhetoric
- Media and Communication Studies site
- The Center for Media Literacy
- On the Media
- NPR program analyzing current events in journalism and other areas of mass media
- Greater Boston "Beat the Press"
- Friday edition of WGBH (Boston PBS station) public affairs news program, which looks at journalistic integrity and accuracy on the local, regional, and national scene. Features Callie Crossley, a major Boston-based documentary film producer, who has visited FP as a Wilson Scholar.
Media Accuracy
- FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- STATS
- a look at the statistics used in current media stories
- CampaignDesk.Org
- reviews accuracy of campaign coverage by journalists
- FactCheck.Org
- evaluates accuracy of politicians' statements and coverage of politics.
Media Production
- Television Production
- Mandy.Com
- international TV & Film Production Guide
- Filmland.Com Glossary/Dictionary
- American Film Institute
- Living Room Candidate
- Presidential election commericals, 1952-2004
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