LibGuides: Journalism Research Starter: Find Websites

General

Center for Media Literacy
The site is organized to provide educational definitions and materials for teaching media literacy, which they explain as "accessing, analyzing, evaluating, creating and participating with media content." The Best Practices section includes definitions and issues related to the subject.
Communication Studies Research
A well-organized directory of Web resources useful for research, covering advertising, culture studies, digital media, film studies, interpersonal and small group communication, journalism and mass media, media studies, and rhetoric, as well as online tools for communication studies researchers. From Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.
MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Site
From the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A well-organized, searchable collection of links to Web content on a wide variety of topics including gender and ethnicity, news media, advertising, film studies, visual images, textual analysis, media influence, and more.

Mass Media & Freedom of Speech

First Amendment Handbook
From the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press and edited by Gregg P. Leslie, this online handbook provides detailed analysis of constitutional law issues as they relate to the practice of journalism. Sections cover access to courts, places and people, the Freedom of Information Act, confidentiality, surreptitious recording, libel, invasion of privacy, prior restraint, and copyright.
Freedom Forum
The Web site of a non-partisan foundation devoted to free speech and freedom of the press. Includes online exhibits from the Newseum, a museum of news media, graphic images of front pages from around the world updated daily, and the latest news and analysis of first amendment issues.
Journalism.org : Project for Excellence in Journalism - Understanding News in the Information Age
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is a research organization that specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. It is non partisan, non ideological and non political. News about the news industry, information for working journalists, background on issues of concern to journalists, and a detailed survey of the state of the news media, including print, broadcast, cable news, magazines, local TV, alternative media, and online news sources.
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PEJ's broadened research agenda will include a new series of continuing content studies of the news agenda, plus tracking of key industry trends, and timely commentary and analysis of that trend data. At the same time, PEJ will also continue its existing research, including publishing the State of the News Media, an annual report on American journalism, conducting "opportunistic" content studies on press performance of key events, offering occasional analysis of press behavior and publishing the Daily Briefing, a digest of media news.
Ten O'Clock News
An online archive of over 500 news broadcasts from 1974-1991 focusing on the African-American community in one US city, Boston. Impressive material for examining broadcast images of the school busing controversy, the challenge to apartheid, a local mayoral campaign and more - race relations as reflected in the evening news.
Newseum: The Interactive Museum News
This site shows "how and why news is made." It presents the history of news media, educational materials, and online exhibits. Also find "today's headlines from [hundreds of] U.S. and international newspaper front pages."

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