Research Guides: SMAD/SCOM/POSC 472: Media & Politics: Home

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New York Times
Access 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
Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information, country and state profiles, tax information, biographies, and more.
Access World News
The best resource for both international and local/regional news coverage.
Factiva
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Search for specific sources, authors, industries, or regions. Browse recent newspapers by clicking on "News Pages."

List of JMU Newspaper Resources
The A-Z List of resources, filtered by the type "News." These resources give you access to articles from a wide variety of magazines and newspapers.

State of the News Media
From Pew Research Center, 2019. Get important context here!
Television Explorer
From the Internet Archive - an interactive timeline visualization that lets you trace how any keyword has been covered on U.S. television news.
NewsGuard
Browser extension that rates the credibility and transparency of news sites.
Easy Who Is
Is an article or site not listing an author? Unsure about its credibility? Easy Who Is lets you type in any URL and find out who owns it.

Almanac of American Politics
Congress members' district maps, campaign expenditures, census data, and much more.
Congress.gov
Legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.
Biography In Context
Biographical information on over 480,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Know your pundit: What you don’t see in politics coverage on TV
From Columbia Journalism Review, Jan. 2018
The Most Influential in News Media
From Mediaite, Dec. 2019. Browse for ideas, or see if your chosen person made the list!

PolitiFact
Pulitzer prize-winning fact checker of political news, operated by the Tampa Bay Times.
FactCheck.org
From the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Fact Checker
From The Washington Post
Snopes
Award-winning independent fact-checking site founded in 1995 by owner/operator and registered independent voter David Mikkelson

Issues & Controversies
Full text analysis of opposing viewpoints for more than 600 controversial topics in the news.

Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan American "fact tank" that provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends.