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Breaking News, Making News 1.0

PWR 2GMA - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Moyer, G.
Last Updated: 25-Mar-2013

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A guide to resources for PWR2GMA :  Breaking News, Making News 1.0. : A class that helps you rethink, reorganize, and reformat what counts as news.

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Molly Molloy
Reference and Instruction Librarian, Coordinator of Newspaper Collection
Cecil H. Green Library
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Background/Reference Sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument

Battleground : the media / edited by Robin Andersen and Jonathan Gray.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » P95.8 .B38 2008 V.1
Consider the source : a critical guide to 100 prominent news and information sites on the web / James F. Broderick and Darren W. Miller.
Medford, N.J. : CyberAge Books, c2007.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » PN4833 .B76 2007
Encyclopedia of journalism / Christopher H. Sterling, general editor.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Reference, c2009.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » PN4728 .E48 2009 V.1
Encyclopedia of politics, the media, and popular culture / Brian Cogan and Tony Kelso.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, c2009.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » P95.82 .U6 C62 2009
Encyclopedia of social movement media / John D.H. Downing, editor.
Los Angeles : SAGE Reference, c2011.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » P96 .A44 E53 2011
also online

Suggested Searchworks Subject Terms:

Subject terms are the words the catalogers use to classify the books, unlike the default search (everything) which is returning titles that have these words somewhere in the catalog record.

Citizen Journalism
Online Journalism
Journalism History 21st century
Journalism technological innovations

Suggested Journals/Ejournals:

Columbia Journalism Review
Extra! (New York, N.Y.) - media criticism from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
Mass communication and society
Media, culture, and society - current issues online only
New media & society - online only since 2003
Journalism : theory, practice, and criticism
Journalism Practice
Journal of Communication
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Selected databases:

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
"Choose databases" next to the search box to add: Alternative Press Index, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Left Index, The Nation Digital Archive (1865-, weekly news magazine)
Access world news [electronic resource] : the ultimate news archive.
Chester, Vt. : NewsBank, inc.
Mostly from the U.S., but also more than 1000 international news sources, mostly in English
Communication & mass media complete [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, MA] : EBSCO Pub., c2004-
Communication studies [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Factiva [electronic resource].
New York : Dow Jones & Reuters.
Latest two weeks of NYT, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and more.
iPoll databank @ the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [electronic resource].
Storrs, Conn. : Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Ipoll is a comprehensive up-to-date source for US nationwide Public Opinion. Polls can be viewed by topic area. See, for example, the polls for the topic: NEWS MEDIA

Current Newspapers in Green Library:

Selected titles in the Information Center - international and North American titles. Older issues and additional titles behind the IC-Display of current periodicals.

How do I find The New York Times online?

How to find articles written by Stanford professors? http://news.stanford.edu/news, 1997-,  sort by relevance or date.