Communication Resource Guide: Journalism and Broadcasting

Links to TV and radio guides plus thousands of topically arranged websites.

A private nonprofit corporation which funds public radio and TV stations. The site includes information on quality television and radio programs, Internet projects, grants, and educational resources.

The federal regulatory agency for telecommunications and media, the FCC website includes press releases and announcements, rules and regulations, statistical reports, and the text of the Daily Digest. The FCC History area details "its role in regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable."

Formerly associated with American Journalism Review, NewsLink is now an independent site that identifies itself as an "academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing and visual journalism." It provides a good set of links to Newspapers, Magazines, Radio/TV, and other news resources. The site also includes a search engine for city-specific media.

The Poynter Institute is a professional school for journalists. Poynteronline allows full-text article searching. The Resource Center provides links to excellent journalistic resources, covering topics such as politics, media ethics, crime reporting, and centers and schools.

Presented by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Journalist's Toolbox features quality Web resources helpful to reporters and editors or anyone doing media research. The search engine locates information from a variety of news related topics, and current topics are listed on the opening page. Includes the Center for Public Integrity's comprehensive, searchable database of federal lobbying documents.

The Polling Report offers the results of recent surveys on political, business, and other current issues by polling organizations like Harris, Princeton, and Gallup.

The Center serves as "a forum for ideas on media and public policy through public opinion research." The website includes full-text reports, surveys, commentary, data, and news.

Intute is a free online service offering access to outstanding web resources for research and education. All resources are selected and evaluated by subject specialists. The database is keyword searchable and browsable. No longer updated.

Progressive in viewpoint, FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) also looks behind the headlines to provide critiques of stories reported by major media outlets, and provides background information on the political issues on which journalists report.

VoS is a massive metasite project based at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This particular webpage provides a wide-ranging group of academic-approved links in media studies. Note the "On this Page" basic outline in the upper right which serves as a guide to more specific areas. Links cover areas, such as media theory, telecom issues, and cyberculture.

An international magazine of cultural criticism. Covers television, music, film, books, video games, computer software, theater, visual arts, and the internet.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) "provides educational services to reporters, editors and others interested in investigative journalism and works to maintain high professional standards." Their Resource Center provides searchable citations/summaries to over 20,000 investigative stories plus conference and training information. Includes a Campaign Finance Information Center. Much of the site's resources are available only to members.

The Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau provides this page of official government factoids and data related to a topic of the moment. It is part of a larger Census Newsroom, which is also worth viewing.

Robert Niles, a writer who does a "Find It" column for the Los Angeles Times, is also self-described as "a long-time math and computer geek." His web page links to websites that help journalists in need of ready reference, mostly statistical.

Although the issues explored at this website involve all aspects of the First Amendment (including broader issues of free speech, religion, assembly, petition, etc.), freedom of the press is covered extensively. Includes a glossary and searchable texts of Supreme Court cases.

Limited in focus, this British website covers topics like "Role Models" and "Queer Theory" and major modern theorists like Foucault. Other resources include book reviews of recommended titles and a few external links.