Penn State University Libraries - News Media Trends

• Pew Research Center
  • Journalism.org
    
    • The Project for Excellence in Journalism is a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and studiy
    • Studies
    • News Coverage Index
    • About PEJ
    • Principles of Journalism
    • Publications on News Media 
    • New Media, Old Media
    • Daily Briefing
  • State of the News Media
    
    • Annual report on American journalism
    • View previous reports, current trends, and data about all the major sectors of journalism
    • Overview
    • Newspapers
    • Key Findings
    • Interactives
    • Ethnic & Alt.
    • Online: Key Questions Facing Digital News
    • Cable
    • Press Alert
  • The Pew Research Center: For the People and the Press
    
    • Biennial Media Consumption Survey
    • Provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world 
    • Conducts public opinion polling and social science research
    • Research and Analysis
      • Non-Profit News: Assessing a New Landscape in Journalism
    • Publications
    • About the Center
    • Datasets
    • Question Search
    • Distrust, Discontent, Anger and Partisan Rancor
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Methodology
    • Weekly News Interest Index
• Newspaper Association of America (NAA)
  
• A nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 newspapers and their multiplatform businesses
• Trends and Numbers
• Topics & Tools

• Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West (Stanford University)
  • Data visualization plots of over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States

Directories

Print

• Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook, (1993-2010 in print or 1935-2008 electronically)
  
  • Includes profiles of 4,825 AM radio stations, 9,000 FM radio stations, and 2,180 television stations in the United States
  • Provides station's call letters, frequency or channel, address, telephone, fax, e-mail, Internet address, ownership, and programming format

• Editor & Publisher International Year Book Editor & Publisher Co. (1945-) [Print]
  • Lists US and International daily newspapers
  • Includes US and Canadian community and special interest weeklies and Campus Newspapers
• Bacon's newspaper directory : directory of daily and weekly newspapers, news services, syndicates

Databases

• Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media (Gale)
  
  • Information on print media, including feature editors, owner information, etc.

• SRDS Media Solutions
  
  • Information sources for advertising purposes
  • Updated frequently

• Television & Cable Factbook
  
  • Provides online access to more than 740,000 detailed records on cable systems, TV stations, media ownership, and media services
    
  • Searchable by station name, location, metropolitan area ranking, affiliate, and other criteria

Who Owns the Media

Websites

• Who Owns the Media (from The State of the News Media)
  
  • Interactive database of companies that own news properties in the United States
  • Use the site to compare the companies, explore each media sector or read profiles of individual companies
• Who Owns the Media?
  
  • Interactive charts showing U.S. corporate media ownership of TV and radio, cable and telecommunications, print, internet

Blogs

• American Press Institute
  
  • API Now  Journalism and News Industry Blog
• The Morning Delivery
  • Written by Bill Lucey
  • Feats, Facts, and Historic Firsts About Items in the News
• Mediactive
  
  • Written by Dan Gillmor
  • Searchable blog articles about responsible journalism, media freedom, social media, current news and other related topics
  • "We are in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous.  Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us - all of us - by being active consumers and participants.  All of us."

Twitters

• Muck Rack - Journalists on Twitter and other social media
  
  • Muck Rack Daily - Free digest of journalism on Twitter, written by journalists
  • Newsroom - "Stories journalists are talking about"
  • Publications
    
    • Hundreds of publications, showing thousands of their associated journalists
    • Examples include:
      • ABC News
      • Advertising Age
      • BBC News
      • Newsweek
      • U.S. News & World Report
      • Wall Street Journal

The Library has a number of documentaries on broadcast news, mass media and news in its video collection. Videos can be found by doing an advanced CAT search and selecting "video material" under material type. The collection is located in different libraries, including MediaTech at University Park, and at the various campus colleges.

• Page one: Inside the New York Times (2011)
• News war [electronic resource]: a special four-part investigation into the future of news (2007)
• The Paper (2007)
• When Journalism Gets a Black Eye (2006)
• If You Can't Beat 'Em, Blog 'Em (2005) 
• Reporters at War (2004)