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News Through a Different Lens

• Careers Today: Career Pathways in Journalism "on ethical issues, role models, challenges and controversies facing today's journalists"

• The Center For Public Integrity-- Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest "produces original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable."
  • The "Well Connected" Project "Technology has created a chessboard of corporate and government interests in telecommunications and media. The players battle it out in Congress, at the Federal Communications Commission and in state houses. The "Well Connected" Project tracks this inside influence game."

• The CQ Researcher Online "original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news." Includes entire reports based on your search. Examples of "media" articles:
  • Future of Newspapers
  • Media Ownership
  • Shock Jocks
  • Television's Future

• Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
  "a global network of journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy." It provides free guides that discuss different aspects of covering violence.
  • Online Self-Study
  • Teaching Tools a list of case studies
  • Tragedies and Journalists

• Editor and Publisher
  "definitive directory listing syndicates and syndicated news/features/services throughout the U.S. and Canada." [Editor and Publisher website]

• Gallup Brain this database is "a searchable, living record of more than 70 years of public opinion." It "also houses Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses."

• LinkTV
  Provides access to programs that provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media.

• Medialens.org (Media Lens)
  " Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project, which offers authoritative criticism of mainstream media bias and censorship, as well as providing in-depth analysis, quotes, media contact details and other resources. "

• Mediamatters.org ( Media Matters for America)
  Helps consumers understand bias in news and commentary by "monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." This site focuses on the media's promotion and opinions of conservative politicians by providing examples of demonstrably false assertions by commentators, news anchors, and pundits.

• NewsTrust
  Features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by members, using unique review tools. News is based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context."

• NPR Podcast Directory
  a directory of free downloadable podcasts from National Public Radio. You can search for podcasts by topic, by title, or by provider.

• On the Media
  • Pulling Back the Curtain
    Behind the scenes at On the Media.

• Poynteronline : Romanesko
  "Your daily fix of media industry news, commentary, and memos"
• The Project for Excellence in Journalism
  Examines multiple news outlets and provides a broad scope of the American news agenda.

• PRWATCH.ORG (Center for Media and Democracy)
  "Investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda, promotes media literacy and citizen journalism, media 'of, by and for the people."

• RTNDA The Association of Electronic Journalists: Speech Archive
  "RTNDA events have provided the podium from which broadcast industry giants have instigated some of history's most important discussions about the state of journalism."

Data and Trends

• Censored
  "The news that didn't make the news--and why"

• CJR's guide to what the major media companies own
  A guide to articles about media ownership

• Death Of Newspapers Belied By Facts, Says WAN from The Center For Media Research, March 2007
  According to new and revised data from the World Association of Newspapers, newspaper circulation is growing and new newspapers are being launched at a remarkable rate.

• Diversity in the Media: A Chart Book for Selected Industries from The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "responds to the public's request for data regarding diversity in employment among some of the key media industries in the nation.... This publication provides a brief graphical overview of the three industry groups: Newspaper/Periodical/Book/Database Publishers, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Cable Networks and Program Distribution."

• Fair: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: annual reports on how power shapes the news

• Freedom of the Press : A Global Survey of Media Independence
  Online at http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
  
  • Annual short reports on the state of press freedom in 193 countries
  • Legal, political, and economic environment analyzed for each country; numerical scores assigned to each of these indicators with high scores indicating limited or no press freedom
• International Press Institute
  • Global organization with members in 120 countries; promotes and defends press freedom
  • Media law watchdog
  • Good source for articles on issues concerning journalism from many regions around the world

• Journalism.org (Project for Excellence in Journalism) The Portrait From Iraq-- How the Press Has Covered Events On The Ground includes polls findings from studies regarding the war in Iraq.

• Media Info Center
  "managed by the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. The Media Management Center is allied with the Kellogg School of Management and the Medill School and has three principal areas of activity; It educates senior level executives from all of the media industries, it participates with media companies in projects that engage some of the most challenging issues to confront the media particularly in strategy, marketing, content, and sales force productivity, and its work is supported by research into many of the media's most complex problems."

• Online Newspaper Blog Traffic Grows 210% Year Over Year, from Nielsen//NetRatings, January 2006
  • For more on this topic, see The rise of the blogosphere

• Pew Research Center "a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does so by conducting public opinion polling and social science research; by reporting news and analyzing news coverage; and by holding forums and briefings. It does not take positions on policy issues."
  • Publications on News Media " features selected Pew Research Center reports (since 2005) on the news media."
  • The Pew Research Center: The Databank includes data trends such as, The Daily Number, Weekly New Coverage Index, Key Data Trends and Datasets.
  • For more information concerning more surveys and studies coming from the Pew Research Center visit The Pew Research Center: For the People and the Press homepage. This is "one of eight projects that make up the Pew Research Center."

• State of the News Media from 2006 : An Annual Report on American Journalism " annual report on the health and status of American journalism." A Day in the Life of the Media is a special chapter of the report that selects one day's worth of news coverage and examines it in depth, providing a concentrated view of how a specific medium (newspaper, online, etc.) dealt with the news events of that day. Also reviews strengths in reportage and bias of reporting.

• The Source: Newspapers by the Numbers (Newspaper Association of America) "information on topics including: advertising, audience, readership, circulation, single copy sales, new media, newsprint and recycling."

• World Association of Newspapers (WAN)
  "groups 76 national newspaper associations, individual newspaper executives in 102 nations, 10 news agencies, and 10 regional press organizations. It is a non-profit, non-government organization."
  • Newspaper Revenue Strategies executive summary

• World Press Encyclopedia
  Find out more about this publication
  • Overview of the press by country
  • Information on political and economic framework, press laws and censorship

• World Press Trends
  • The primary and most authoritative source of data on the newspaper industry world-wide
• Includes information on 216 countries and territories, every country where newspapers are published
• Presents broad overviews of the industry as well as detailed analyses of individual markets

News Media Documentaries

The Library has a number of documentaries on broadcast news, mass media and journalism in its video collection. The focus of the collection is broad, and includes topics like war reporting, crime coverage, and media ethics. (Recent titles include: When Journalism Gets a Black Eye (2006); If You Can't Beat 'Em, Blog 'Em (2005); Reporters at War (2004), News war [electronic resource]: a special four-part investigation into the future of news (2007), and many more).

Videos can be found by doing a CAT search. The collection is located in different libraries, including MediaTech at University Park, and at the various campus colleges. Using The CAT, patrons can request titles and pick-up locations.

• Online Newshour
  • Credibility in Question
    "high profile cases illustrate fundamental journalistic ethics and the fallout of breaching those tenets."
  • Mediawatch
    a list of online reports from Online Newshour.
  • Shock Waves
    this article discusses Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg.

Newsblogs

• Reflections of a Newsosaur: Alan Mutter
  "Musings and (occasional urgent warnings) of a veteran media executive, who fears our news-gathering companies are stumbling to extinction."

• Teaching Online Journalism: Mindy McAdams
  "Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online."

For Information About Newspaper Preservation and History

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
  Allows you to search the newspaper pages from selected newspaper projects and also to Search the Directory for libraries that own holdings of specific historical newspapers.

• National Digital Newspaper Program
  
  
  • Florida Newspaper Project
• Pennsylvania Newspaper Project
• The Engraver's Art : Newspaper Mastheads
  Part of the Virginia Newspaper Project at The Library of Virginia.

• Florida Journalism History Project