Tools
- AP Stylebook This link opens in a new windowWriting style guide with fundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctuation, usage, and journalistic style.
- Fact-check Yourself Before You Fact-wreck YourselfA guide written by one of the fact-checkers for NPR's "This American Life," April 2017
- BBC Academy - College of Journalism This link opens in a new windowJournalism resource with articles, videos, and discussions about ethics, values, laws, and skill sets in the world of journalism.
Newspaper Resources
- List of JMU Newspaper ResourcesThe A-Z List of resources, filtered by the type "News"
Current Newspapers
- New York Times This link opens in a new windowAccess to NYTimes.com, including breaking news, multimedia, international content, reviews, blogs, apps, and more.
To activate a renewable one-year pass, see these instructions. - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowCovers news, legal information, and business/company information.
- Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Business resources including full text periodicals, news photographs, company reports, and financial data. - Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Full text for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines. - Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers, as well as TV and radio transcripts. - Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowAn online version of the Wall Street Journal
Note: First time users will need to create a personal account using these instructions.
- List of JMU Newspaper ResourcesFor more options, see this list of all JMU newspaper resources.
Data and Trends
Historical Newspapers and Magazines
- ProQuest News & Newspapers This link opens in a new windowNews articles from Ethnic NewsWatch, Chicago Defender (1910-1975), New York Times Historical (1851-2009), and the Washington Post Historical (1877-1996) in a single search.
- New York Times: Historical This link opens in a new windowFull page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago.
- Washington Post: Historical This link opens in a new windowFull page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text PDF facsimiles of specific articles as well as complete pages, including photos and advertisements, from every issue of the London Times.
- List of JMU Newspaper ResourcesFor more options, see this list of all JMU newspaper resources.
Television News Resources
- Television ExplorerFrom the Internet Archive - an interactive timeline visualization that lets you trace how any keyword has been covered on U.S. television news.
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of news from NBC (1968 to date) and CNN (1995 to date) plus indexing of television network news from all the major networks, 1968 to date.
Key Journalism Documentaries
All films below are available via Kanopy.
You must be using Pulse Secure in order to view the films off-campus.
Books
The Bloomberg Way by
Learn best practices from the most trusted name in business and financial reporting The Bloomberg Way is the journalist's guide to covering business, finance and the economy, with authoritative guidance from the editor-in-chief and senior editors of Bloomberg. As the lines between objectivity and opinion become increasingly blurred, the new edition of the Bloomberg Way shows you how to be the first to publish print and multimedia content with accuracy and journalistic integrity. The authors walk through the best-practice reporting, writing and editing processes followed by this elite, global journalistic organization. You'll learn how to work effectively in a highly competitive real-time news environment where every second matters. The book offers expert tips for taking a story from pitch to publication, along with discussion of journalistic principles including fairness, transparency, sourcing, libel, privacy and ethics. The Bloomberg Way describes essential guidelines for producing content for print, broadcast and web audiences. Topics include interviewing techniques, clarity and precision in writing and editing, compelling headlines and leads, the marriage of words and data in stories, effective charts and graphs, how to appear on television, writing for the web, and more. Each topic is accompanied by how-to examples and showcases useful functions from the Bloomberg Terminal. The Bloomberg Way also shows you how to collaborate with colleagues across platforms to report and present stories about: The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets. Companies, including earnings, mergers, debt, product strategy and managementms changes. Economies and their intersection with government and politics. The Bloomberg Way is the definitive book for any journalist or media specialist who needs to know how one of the world's leading news organizations covers news about business, finance and the economy.
Call Number: PN4784.C7 W56 2017ISBN: 9781119272311Publication Date: 2017-07-24
Censored 2017 by
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, America's oldest news-monitoring group, has produced a Top 25 list of underreported new stories and a book, Censored. They are dedicated to the stories that should be top features on the nightly news but are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. A perennial favourite of booksellers, teachers and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life-signs of our current collective desire to get the news we need - despite what Big Media tells us. Features 25 under-reported stories selected by scholars, journalists and activists.
Call Number: PN4888.P6 H84 2016ISBN: 9781609807153Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Newspaper Wars by
Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive fighters" for equality. Newspaper Wars traces the role journalism played in the fight for civil rights in South Carolina from the 1930s through the 1960s. Moving the press to the center of the political action, Sid Bedingfield tells the stories of the long-overlooked men and women on the front lines of a revolution. African American progress sparked a battle to shape South Carolina's civic life, with civil rights activists arrayed against white journalists determined to preserve segregation through massive resistance. As that strategy failed, white newspapers turned to overt political action and crafted the still-prevalent narratives that aligned southern whites with the national conservative movement. A fascinating portrait of a defining time, Newspaper Wars analyzes the role journalism played--and still can play--during times of social, cultural, and political change.
Call Number: PN4897.S64 B44 2017ISBN: 9780252082788Publication Date: 2017-08-02
