Journalism is a research-intensive field of practice that involves the collection, analysis, organization, and communication of news across a variety of media contexts.
This guide provides information about:
Getting Started with journalism research;
Major Topics in journalism research;
Databases for finding popular/scholarly articles;
Catalogs for finding books, journals & multimedia;
Directories for finding contacts & contact information; and
Websites for researching key journalism-related issues.
An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas.
AP Images: Over 3.5 million news photographs from the 1840s through today. Also includes maps, timelines, logos and graphs. AP Interactives: A collection of multimedia content from the archives of the Associated Press. Interactives are fully-licensed for educational use.
Covers all significant aspects of journalism, including print, broadcast, and Internet journalism. History, technology, legal issues, and economics of the field are covered.
A free Internet Archive service, launched in 2012, designed to "help engaged citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs." Contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. Updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.
