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Journalism and Mass Communication Internet Resources

Alternative News Sources

International Organizations and Associations

Major Gateways

  • CountryReports.org
    A fantastic resource for students, teachers, tourists, and anyone else interested in the globe, A+ Country Reports offers a wealth of information on all of the countries of the world. Includes weather reports and audio clips.
  • E-PERIODISTAS
    The contents of this new website are written in Spanish but could be of interest to students since it covers both Spanish and international resources. It also gives updated headlines about communication news from many publications (most of them from Spain, but also from Editor & Publisher, Media Guardian, etc.) and other useful contents.
  • Electronic Databases
    Comprehensive collection of links to Bobst Libraries fee-based electronic databases and full text news sources. Access for most resources is restricted to NYU account holders.
  • Internet Journalism Resources
    Compiled by Professor Shelton Gunaratne at Minnesota State University Moorhead
  • Internet Resources for News Librarians and Researchers
  • JournalismJobs.com
    JournalismJobs.com is the largest and most-visited resource for media jobs, and receives more than one million page views a month. It has the best variety of jobs, and the largest database of resumes for journalists.
  • Journalism Resources at the University of Iowa
    Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled in support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists.
  • Library Resources for Communication Studies
    This web site is a springboard that librarians, students, and researchers can use to find information in the area of communication studies. It is not exhaustive, rather it includes the core or primary resources within each category presented. The resources included within this site were selected by communication studies librarians serving as members of the Association of College and Research Libraries Educational and Behaviorial Sciences Section Communication Studies Committee.
  • New Media and Internet Resources
    From the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
  • Obits Archive
    ObitsArchive.com is the largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices in the United States
  • Prensa Digital
    This resource selects daily news stories and articles of general interest published by some Spanish online newspapers.
  • Sala de Prensa
    Web para profesionales de la comunicación iberoamericanos

Mass Media and Cultural Studies

  • Bibliography of Publications Relating to Cultural Indicators
    An extensive bibliographyof academic works on mass media and culture including authors such as George Gerbner. A hidden, but very valuable source.
  • Cultural Studies Center
    An excellent source for journals, articles, and presentations on film, media in general, science fiction, andtelevision. This site also contains discussion groups and search mechanisms.
  • Media Literacy Online Project
    The goal is to provide teachers, students, parents, and producers with a comprehensive resource collection related to the influence of media in the lives ofchildren, youth, and adults. An excellent source that also includes its own conference proceedings.
  • A.C. Nielsen
    Contains all that you needed to know about the Nielsen ratings.
  • GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
    The Lesbian and Gay News Bureau and theonly national lesbian and gay multimedia watchdog organization.
  • MASS MEDIA ADVERTISEMENTS (Ad*Access)
    A collection of images from over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955. Subject areas include: radio, television, transportation, beauty and hygiene and World War II.
  • Project Censored
    The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive
    This database is the guide to the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news progams.

Media Watch

  • AlterNet
    AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute , a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.
  • Center for Digital Democracy
    The Center for Digital Democracy is a nonprofit organization working to ensure that the digital media systems serve the public interest.
  • Center for Media and Public Affairs
    The site offers readers intelligent and cogent analysis pf the news industry; a useful tool.
  • CIVIL RIGHTS FORUM
    This interdisciplinary forum examines the role of the media, its responsibility to the public, and access to communications technology, in such areas as the digital divide and broadcast policy.
  • DEMOCRATIC MEDIA
    Principally involved with access to communications media and the Internet, its website is directed toward lay activists, posting articles from print media, updates on Federal Communications Commission activities, news of corporate mergers in communications, comments by the Center on current media cases, and opportunities for legal activism.
  • DNet
    Democracy Network.
  • EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civilliberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media.
  • F.A.I.R.
    Fairness & Accuracy In Reportingis the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism in aneffort to correct media bias and imbalance.
  • Freedom of Information Center
    Established in 1958, the center now has a collection of more than 1 million articles and documents aboutaccess to information, at the state, federal and local levels, in addition to a wide collection of online document accessible through its webpage.
  • Independent Media Center
    Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
  • Index on Censorship
    Index on Censorship, the bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Throughinterviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the issues of the moment.
  • MEDIA ANALYSIS DIRECTORY
    The Open Directory Project (ODP) is the most comprehensive human edited directory of the Web, compiled by a vast global community of volunteer editors. The ODP powers core directory services for some the most popular portals and search engines on the Web, including AOL Search, Netscape Search, Google, Lycos, DirectHit, and HotBot, and hundreds of others. This is the media analysis directory.
  • MediaGuardian.co.uk
    The first industry-wide website to provide daily breaking news coupled with commentary, analysis and key information for media professionals.
  • NEWSWATCH
    Investigation of the factors and forces that shape the news.

U.S. Government Statistics

U. S. Organizations and Associations

  • Society of Professional Journalists
    SPJ's site includes an online version of Quill (SPJ's monthly magazine), a code of journalistic ethics, and alist of resources on Freedom of Information issues. The site also includes pointers to journalism publications and news media online.
  • National Press Club
    Provide people who gather and disseminate news a center for the advancement of theirprofessional standards and skills, the promotion of free expression, mutual support and social fellowship.
  • American Communication Association
    ACA was created to promote academic and professional research,criticism, teaching, practical use, and exchange of principles and theories of human communication.
  • FCC-The Federal Communications Commission
    The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.
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