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Communication, Journalism and Speech

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Associations & Organizations Schools Online Courses & Discussion Groups Directories of Internet Sites Mega-Sites

Specialized Resources Advertising Journalism, Magazines & Newspapers Law & Legislation Motion Pictures Music Speeches Television & Radio

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Electronic Journals & Other Publications Indexes to Commnunication Literature Indexes to Magazines & Journals Indexes to Newspaper Articles

Associations & Organizations

• Directories:
  • Associations Unlimited -
    - Search for organizations by keywords, topics, or acronyms.
  • Journalism Organizations (AJR, American Journalism Review)
  • Journalism Organizations. (NewsLink)
  • Media Watch Groups (Columbia University)
    - groups related to media, freedom of expression, censorship
• American Communication Association
• American Society of Magazine Editors
• American Society of Newspaper Editors
    - includes links to websites of other journalism groups, such as groups with a minority focus
• Federal Communications Commission
• International Association of Business Communicators
• National Association of Broadcasters
• NATOA (National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors)
    - local governments needs, industry trends, legislation, FCC filings & regulations
• National Cable & Telecommunications Association
• National Communication Association
• National Press Photographers Association
• Newspaper Association of America
    - marketing, public policy, diversity, industry development and newspaper operations
• PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) | PRSSA (PR Student Society of America) | PRSSA at UW-Whitewater
• The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Society for Technical Communication
• Society of Professional Journalists
• Toastmasters International
    - non-profit organization established in 1924 to enhance public speaking skills
• Wisconsin Broadcasters Association - listings of internships, jobs, events, stations
• Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA)

Schools

• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (New York City) - founded 1912 by J. Pulitzer
• UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• UW-Whitewater College of Arts & Communication: Communication Department

Online Courses & Discussion Groups

• CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship) "...Supports the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education..."
• World Lecture Hall: Communication (University of Texas)
• World Lecture Hall: Journalism (University of Texas)

Directories of Internet Sites

• Telecoms Virtual Library
• Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies - Film/Video | Journalism | Media Histories | Radio | Theory & Theorists | TV
• WWW Virtual Library: Communication - Broadcasters | Telecommunications
• Yahoo: News and Media - Industry Information (Broadcasting, Journalism, and other categories)

Mega-Sites

• MCS: The Media and Communication Studies Site - British-based

Specialized Resources

Advertising | Journalism, Magazines, & Newspapers | Law & Legislation | Motion Pictures | Music | Speeches | Television & Radio

Miscellaneous

• The Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania)

  The Center conducts ongoing research in the areas of political discourse, children and media, the Internet, and health communications. The Center's reports, available online, are on topics such as Issue advertising in the 1999-2000 election cycle and Public policy, family rules and children's media use in the home.

• Annie Awards (International Animated Film Society)

  Awards for the "finest animation across film, television, short subjects and gaming.

• Big Cartoon Database

  This is a searchable database of cartoon information, episode guides and crew lists.

• Careers in Communications by Noronha, Shonan F. R. (netLibrary ebook) -
• Children & the Media issue briefs. (Children Now)

  Fall colors: Prime time diversity report. (2003) and Big media, little kids..

• Country profiles-Guides to culture, etiquette, customs and protocol (Kwintessential Language and Culture Specialists)
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (Stanford University)
• Drawn & Quartered.com - editorial caricatures and cartoons
• Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography (National Press Photographers Association)
• Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium (Library of Congress)

  This site provides biographical information and selected works of Herb Block, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning.

• How to investigate the copyright status of a work (Copyright Office, Library of Congress) - Circular 22
• The Pulitzer Prizes - history of the Prizes and a searchable archive of winners
• Study of Entertainment Media (Kaiser Family Foundation)

  Includes reports and survey results on a variety of topics, including sexual content on TV, V-Chip, television ratings, and Kids & media @ the new millennium on media use by youth ages 2-18.

Advertising

skip to: Television ads

• The :30 Second Candidate (Wisconsin Public Television)
• Ad*Access Project (Duke University)

  Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955

• Ad Council

  Current and historic campaigns, research (including rsearch reports such as Engaging the Next Generation: How Nonprofits Can Reach Young Adults and Public Service Advertising that Changed a Nation)

• AdAge.com (Advertising Age)

  News, Ad Age awards, reviews of ads, and in the Data Center: statistics such as top magazines by gross revenue, circulation, or advertising pages and revenue; profiles of leading national advertisers; rankings of advertising agencies worldwide.

• adflip

  Searchable database of classic print ads since the 1940's.

• Advertising. (Federal Trade Commission)

  Publications related to advertising for consumers and businesses, such as Dot com disclosures, an FTC staff working paper on how the agency's consumer protection rules and guidelines apply to advertising and sales on the Internet.

• Advertising Red Books: Advertisers & Agency databases -

  Comprehensive information on the advertising industry including directories of 20,000 U.S and 10,000 international corporate advertisers, 9,700 U.S and 3,700 international advertising agencies and detailed information on each advertising firm, including annual billings, clients and specialties.

• American Association of Advertising Agencies

  News releases, transcripts of selected speeches by AAAA board members at national conferences, links to industry organizations and agencies (The Roster of Members is searchable by state or agency name.), and the annual O'Toole Awards.

• Dictionary of Terminology: Advertising (Dept. of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin)
• The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Duke University)

  Over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S.

• Legislative and Regulatory News (Association of National Advertisers)

  The ANA also provides an overview of Federal Regulation of Advertising.

• PSAs in a new media age (Kaiser Family Foundation)

  Provides access to Shouting to be heard: Public service advertising in a new media age - A report on television content that reports results of a survey conducted by faculty at Indiana University, as well as related background papers and case studies.

• Public education: Commercial activities in schools (U.S. General Accounting Office)
• The role of advertising in America: An overview (Association of National Advertisers)
• Self-regulatory guidelines for children's advertising (Children's Advertising Review Unit)
• Take a Fresh Look at Print (International Federation of the Periodical Press)

  Evidence supporting the importance of print media to campaigns.

• Television ads
  • Ad Gallery (Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign)
  • Classic TV Ads
  • Clipland/Television Commercial Database
  • Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress
  • TVCommercialsNow

Journalism, Magazines, & Newspapers

• Listings of magazines and newspapers, with links to Websites
  • Magazines: Internet Public Library | Metagrid | NewsDirectory.com | NewsLink | Yahoo!
  • Newspapers: Onlinenewspapers.com | Internet Public Library. | NewsDirectory.com. | NewsLink. | ThePaperboy.com | Yahoo!.
• Awards & Prizes in Journalism
  • Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

    Honoring radio and television journalism since 1942.

  • ASNE Awards (American Society of Newspaper Editors)
  • Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prizes

    Honors distinguished reporting on national defense and on the presidency (U.S.)

  • Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism (International Federation of Journalists)

    Honors excellence in reporting human rights, democracy, and development

  • National Magazine Awards (American Society of Magazine Editors)
  • Newswise Guide to Journalism Awards
  • Prize for Journalism and Democracy (OSCE Parliamentary Assembly)

    Awarded to journalists whose work has promoted the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe's principles on human rights and democracy

  • The Pulitzer Prizes

    History of the Prizes and a searchable archive of winners

  • RFK Journalism Awards

    Honoring outstanding reporting of problems of the disadvantaged

• Codes of Conduct (PressWise)

  Codes of journalistic ethics from arond the world.

• Commentators.com

  Provides direct links to columns of popular commentators, such as Ellen Goodman, George Will, and William Safire

• Committee to Protect Journalists

  This nonprofit, nonpartisan organization monitors abuses against the press and promotes press freedoms. The site includes regional overviews, annual Attacks on the Press since 1996, lists of journalists killed or imprisoned, and International Press Freedom awards.

• Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
• European Media Landscape (European Journalism Centre)

  Overview of the media in selected European states, including statistics, policies, and trends.

• Features Index, Magazine World (International Federation of the Periodical Press)

  Full text of feature articles on the magazine industry, including links to information on specific countries' magazine industries.

• Journalism UK
• Media Management Center (Northwestern University)

  The Center conducts research and executive education for news media worldwide. It has two major components: The Media Information Center and The Readership Institute, which investigates readership-building for newspapers.

• News/Wire Services (AJR, American Journalism Review)
• Newseum
• NewsNow

  News portal monitoring current online news on Internet sites, including international, national and regional publications, newswires, magazines, press releases and exclusively online news sources. Browse by category or search for a keyword.

• Newswise Guide to Journalism Grants and Fellowships
• Pew Center for Civic Journalism
• Reader Profile (Audit Bureau of Circulations)

  Select by state to see demographics of newspaper readers.

• Readership Institute (Northwestern University, Media Management Center)

  This site provides reports issued as a result of research on how to increase readership of newspapers.

• The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

  News articles, press releases, full-text articles from the quarterly News Media & the Law since v.24:no.1 (Winter 2000), and other online publications such as:

  • Access to electronic records,
  • Can we tape: A practical guide to taping phone calls and in-person conversations in the 50 states and D.C. , and
  • The First Amendment handbook.

• Royal Purple Index (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Unievrsity Library)

  This site allows the student newspaper to be searched by names, dates, and topics for issues published: May 25, 1967; Sept 12, 1990-Sept. 26, 1990; December 3, 1993-April 20, 1994; Jan 25, 1995-Feb 28-1996 (continuing forward); November 13, 2002-October 11, 2006 (continuing with new issues as well as working backward).

• Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996
• Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) - August 1968 to present
• Ulrichsweb -

  Searchable descriptions of serials such as magazines and newspapers, including publisher information.

• Who Owns What (Columbia Journalism Review) - What do the major media companies own?

Law & Legislation (Librarian Selected Internet Resources)

Motion Pictures

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• AFI (American Film Institute)
• Box Office Charts (Yahoo! Movies)
• British Film Institute
• Critics' Choice Awards
• Rogerebert.com (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) - searchable movie reviews since 1985
• FilmFestivals.com - search by country or month
• Golden Globe Awards (Hollywood Foreign Press Association)
• The Internet Movie Database
• MPTV (Motion Picture & Photo Archive)
• National Film Preservation Board (NFPB)

  Site includes a listing of films in the National Film Registry. Carnegie Mellon's copy of The U.S. National Film Registry provides links to movie information at the Internet Movie Database.

• National Film Preservation Project - information on film decay and preservation basics, map of U.S. film archives
• Reasons for Movie Ratings (Classification and Rating Administration)

  Searchable database of rated movies since 1968 and the reasons for the ratings, plus the Q&A section explains the ratings

• Screen Actors Guild Awards
• Studios - Each selection from the list will open a new browser window.
  • Castle Rock Ent.
  • Comedy Central
  • Dreamworks SKG
  • Fox
  • HBO
  • MTV
  • Metro Goldwyn Mayer
  • Miramax
  • New Line Cinema
  • Nickelodeon
  • Paramount Studios
  • Showtime Network
  • Sony Pictures Ent.
  • Turner Entertainment
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • Universal Studios
  • Viacom Ent
  • Walt Disney Co.
  • Warner Bros. Studios.
• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Wisconsin Historical Society)

  Holdings include over 300 manuscripts collections from outstanding playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors and production companies. In addition, materials preserved include 15,000 motion pictures, television shows and videotapes, two million still photographs and promotional graphics, and several thousand sound recordings. WCFTR collections are richest in records of the American film industry between 1930 and 1960, popular theater of the 1940s and 1950s, and television from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Music (Librarian Selected Internet Resources)

Speeches

• American Rhetoric (Michael E. Eidenmuller, University of Texas at Tyler)
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address (Northwestern University)
• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World (Sweet Briar College)
• Great Speeches Collection (The History Place)
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Bartleby.com)
• Representative American Speeches (part of The Reference Shelf series) in the University Library's Reference Collection AC1 .R4x
• Speeches. (The History Channel) - audio
• Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - listing only
• Vital Speeches of the Day is available in the University Library's Periodicals Collection since v.1 (1934), and recent years' fulltext is available in subscription databases: - 
  • 05/01/1990 to date: Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, MasterFILE Premier and MAS Online Plus
  • 01/01/1994 to 12/01/1995: Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition and Readers' Guide Full Text Mega Edition
  • 12/01/1987 to date: ABI/INFORM Global.

Television & Radio

• Listings of radio stations and television stations & networks
  • Find a Station (Wisconsin Broadcasters Association)

    Locate Wisconsin radio and television stations by city.

  • Radio and Television (NewsLink)
  • Radio and Television Stations on the Web (TVRadioWorld)
  • Radio Networks | Radio Stations (Yahoo!)
  • Television (Yahoo!)
  • Television Networks (AJR, American Journalism Review)
• Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

  Based in Los Angeles, the ATAS administers prime-time Emmy awards.

• Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

  Honoring radio and television journalism since 1942.

• BBCi (British Broadcasting Corporation) - history, radio and television programming, news
• Children & the Media issue briefs (Children Now)

  News and reports on media effects, consumption, & portrayals such as Fall colors: Prime time diversity report (2003) and Big media, little kids.

• Digital TV: A Cringely Crash Course (PBS)
• Encyclopedia of Television (The Museum of Broadcast Communications)
• European Media Landscape (European Journalism Centre)

  Overview of the media in selected European states, including statistics, policies, and trends.

• Golden Globe Awards (Hollywood Foreign Press Association)
• Heavy Hundred - Class of 2004 (TALKERS Magazine)

  Annual list of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in the U.S.

• Measuring the ethnic television audience (Nielsen Media Research)
• MPTV (Motion Picture & Television Photo Archive)
• Museum of Broadcast Communications
• Museum of Radio and Technology - includes links to radio & broadcasting resources
• Museum of Television & Radio (Los Angeles and New York City)
• NAB Radio Awards Page (National Association of Broadcasters)
• National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

  Featuring the Emmy Awards, the national academy is based in New York City and administers daytime, news, technology, public service, and sports Emmys.

• Peabody Awards - recognizing outstanding broadcast and cable achievements
• Radio Archive of the University of Memphis (Marvin R. Bensman, Director)

  Search the catalog and order ($) copies of taped radio programs.

• Television History - The First 75 Years
• Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) - covers August 1968 to present
• The TV Parental Guidelines (TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board)
• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Wisconsin Historical Society)

  Holdings include over 300 manuscripts collections from outstanding playwrights, television and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers, directors and production companies. In addition, materials preserved include 15,000 motion pictures, television shows and videotapes, two million still photographs and promotional graphics, and several thousand sound recordings. WCFTR collections are richest in records of the American film industry between 1930 and 1960, popular theater of the 1940s and 1950s, and television from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Communication Studies, Cultural, and Media Studies Infobase (Mick Underwood)

Electronic Journals & Other Publications

• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (v.1- 1994- ) -
• Advertising & Society Review (v.1- 2000- ) -
• American Communication Journal (v.1- 1997- ) (American Communication Association)
• Columbia Journalism Review (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)
• Communication Arts Online version
• The Digital Journalist

  Full-text articles, columns, editorials, and photo galleries. The photo galleries cover everything from the last days of Seinfeld to the horror of 9/11. Archives go back to 1997.

• Electronic Journal of Communication (Publisher: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• News Media & the Law (v.24- 2000- ) (The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
• Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies (University of Nottingham, UK) - Articles Archive (2000- )
• Television Quarterly - journal of the National Academy of Televison Arts and Sciences

Indexes to Communication Literature

• Communication & Mass Media Complete (via Ebscohost) -
  

  CCMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with other journals to offer cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 100 more. The database also includes full text for nearly 200 journals, and some major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).

• ERIC via Ebscohost -
  

  Comprehensive indexing of communication and speech journals since 1966.

• Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb) -
  

  Citations with abstracts, and full-text articles from selected periodicals. Coverage: 1984 to date (indexing) and 1995 to date (full-text from selected publications).

• Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb) -
  

  Citations with abstracts, and full-text articles from selected periodicals. Coverage: 1983 to date (indexing) and 1995 to date (full-text from selected publications).

• Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information, 1987- ) -
  

  Multidisciplinary databases (Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index) of bibliographic information indexed for searching for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. The database may be searched for articles citing a particular article. The information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (bibliography). After connecting to the database, click on "ISI Web of Science" on the left side of the first screen display.

• More Indexes & Databases, Arranged by Subject: Arts | Business | General (UW-Whitewater University Library)

Indexes to Magazines & Journals

• Articles in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers (UW-Whitewater University Library's listing of indexes and other databases)

Indexes to Newspaper Articles

• LexisNexis Academic -

  This is a very rich database, including indexing to newspapers from the U.S. and other countries, news wires, and transcripts of radio and television news programs. Here, for example, is indexing to the New York Times since 1969 with full-text articles available since June 1980; full-text of The Times (London) since July 1985, full-text of the Washington Post since January 1977, and indexing to the Wall Street Journal since May 1973 with abstracts since January 1989 (only substantive articles are abstracted earlier). To browse sources available, go to the "Guided News Search" tab, select a news category, such as "News Transcripts," and click on "Source List" (a second selection, such as "All Transcripts," may be required in the "Select a news source" box). For a list of foreign-language (non-English) publications, see LexisNexis Academic Foreign Language Publications.

•  New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2003) (ProQuest) -
• ProQuest Newspapers (ProQuest) -

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