JOUR 470 - The Press and Society: Library Research Guide
News Analysis Sources
Books - Using keywords about your topic, search the UA Library Catalog for books about journalism, communication, and the media.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
This database includes scholarly journals and magazines in the journalism and communication disciplines. You may find articles about analysis of news coverage, ethics in the news, and other issues relevant to journalists, from journals like American Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Extra!, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
This is a unique index of evening news broadcasts (some back to the 1960s) from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, as well special news reports and more. Abstracts include names of reporters, a summary of the event reported, the beginning and ending times for each news segment, and what advertisements ran during the program, so you can analyze the time allotted for coverage of different issues, as well as who the major advertisers are on different broadcast news networks. Also includes RealVideo (online video) access to CNN programs from 1998-present.
Newspaper Association of America
Includes the section, Trends and Numbers, with statistics about the newspaper industry, which is a section designed to provide quick access to the facts and statistics that define the changing newspaper industry. In addition, it aggregates reports either produced or commissioned by NAA in the areas of Advertising, Audience, and Circulation.
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Includes surveys, reports, and commentary about
people's attitudes toward the press and public policy issues.
Poynter Institute
Includes practical tips for reporters, but also articles about journalism issues, like ethics, diversity, and the role of the media.
The State of the News Media 2006: An Annual Report on American Journalism
From the Project for Excellence in Journalism, includes data, research and analysis of the news media.
CJR Daily: Real-Time Media Criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review
Description from the site: "A real-time daily critique of journalism and a continuing discussion and analysis of where it is and where it's going." "We focus on three areas: an ongoing critique of political journalism; an ongoing analysis of the larger forces -- political, economic, technological, social legal -- that affect press performance day in and day out; and a new emphasis on monitoring and critiquing the journalism of the business and financial press." Updated daily, sometimes hourly.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
(FAIR) is a "national media watch group." Also, see their magazine of media criticism, Extra! (some articles available online. Print copy available in the library at call number AP2 .E98 Main Current Journal and Main), and their weekly radio program, Counterspin (RealAudio available online).
Tyndall Report
Weekly report on the content of the three network nightly news broadcasts (ABC, CBS, NBC). Time devoted to each story is included. Shows top ten stories of each week, based on minutes of coverage. Also includes a year-in-review, with weekly and annual archives back to 2000.
BBC/Reuters/Media Center Poll: Trust in the Media
Ten-country opinion poll about people's trust in the media.
Cable News Wars
Content analysis study done in 2002
of the primetime content of three cable news channels: CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.
Magazines for Libraries is a reference book that describes different magazines and newspapers. If you're trying to identify a news media source to review or want to know what kind of audience it targets (e.g., conservative, liberal), consult this source at call number PN4832 .M23 Main Reference.