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Journalism

This is a research guide for Journalism, Television News, Women in Journalism, War Journalism, Fake news and Alternative Media.
  • Introduction
  • Books
  • Finding articles & journal titles
  • Fake news
    • Media literacy
  • Types of journalism
    • Investigative journalism
    • Photojournalism
    • Sports journalism
    • Warfare and journalism
  • Newsreels
  • How mass media sees Journalists/Journalism
  • Television news
  • Censorship
  • Ethnicity and journalism
  • Women and journalism
  • Alternative media
  • Future of Media
  • Internet resources
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A short definition ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "journalism" as "the occupation or profession of a journalist; journalistic writing; the public journals collectively." It was first used in 1833 in the The Westminster Review published in London.

[Source: "Journalism, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, accessed May 9, 2022]

Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoDemocracy on deadline: the global struggle for an independent press
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6212
    This documentary profiles journalists in the U.S. and throughout the world as they struggle with government censorship, commercial pressures, and dangerous conditions in covering international events.
  • Resource logoJournalism from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Communication by Matt Carlson
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199756841
    The study of journalism is complicated by questions of just what journalism is. Journalism can be viewed as a profession employing thousands of workers, a practice with a set of rules and expectations, and a product that we also call news. Scholars have been exploring these phenomena through a variety of methods and theoretical approaches over the past century. The interest in journalism as a particular form of media work stems from the close association between news and democratic governance. ...
  • News war by David Fanning
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6918 discs 1 - 4
  • Cover artVNR's . . . video news release by Jan Samorieski
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6177
    ISBN: 9781561200252
    A new approach in television news is for companies or organizations to produce their own press releases on video and then provide these to the various television stations across America. The video news releases or VNRs look like typical television news stories but in reality promote a product, service, or idea. See why and how corporations use VNRs to further their message. Experts in television news react to this new trend. Many examples of video news releases are included in this program.

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  • Cover ArtThe American newsroom: a history, 1920-1960 by Will Mari
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780826222329
    The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in "news factories" by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. ...
  • Cover ArtCovering Muslims: American newspapers in comparative perspective by Erik Bleich; Maurits van der Veen
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780197611715
    An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure. For decades, scholars and observers have criticized negative media portrayals of Muslims and Islam. Yet most of these critiques are limited by their focus on one specific location, a limited time period, or a single outlet. In Covering Muslims, Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen present the first systematic, large-scale analysis of American newspaper coverage of Muslims through comparisons across groups, time, countries, and topics. ...
  • Cover ArtImagined audiences: how journalists perceive and pursue the public by Jacob L. Nelson
    • DVD
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780197542590
    Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry--including profound financial instability and public distrust--is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences. This raises important questions: How do journalists conceptualize their audiences in the first place? What is the connection between what journalists think about their audiences and what they do to reach them? Perhaps most importantly, how aligned are these "imagined" audiences with the real ones? Imagined Audiences draws on ethnographic case studies of three news organizations to reveal how journalists' assumptions about their audiences shape their approaches to their audiences. ...
  • Cover ArtJournalism and truth: strange bedfellow by Tom Goldstein
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4888 .O25 G65 2007
    ISBN: 9780810124332
    The complaint is all too common: I know something about that, and the news got it wrong. Why this should be, and what it says about the relationship between journalism and truth, is exactly the question that is at the core of Tom Goldstein's very timely book. Other disciplines have clear protocols for gathering evidence and searching for truth. Journalism, however, has some curious conventions that may actually work against such a goal. ...
  • Cover ArtNews from Moscow: Soviet journalism and the limits of postwar reform by Simon Huxtable
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780192857699
    News from Moscow is a social and cultural history of Soviet journalism after World War II. Focusing on the youth newspaper Komsomol'skaia Pravda, the study draws on transcripts of behind-the-scenes editorial meetings to chart the changing professional ethos of the Soviet journalist. Simon Huxtable shows how journalists viewed themselves both as propagandists bringing the Party's ideas to the wider public, but also as reformers who tried to implement new ideas that would help usher the country towards Communism. ...
  • Cover ArtThe news media: what everyone needs to know by C. W. Anderson; Leonard Downie; Michael Schudson
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780190206208
    The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plummeting readership and revenue, and municipal and regional papers shuttering or being absorbed into corporate behemoths. ...

In the library's collections

"Journalism" is the subject heading used in the online catalog. You can narrow the search by adding a country name after journalism. Look at the "related subjects" too. You can also browse the shelves in Baker/Berry Reference to see what we have on Journalism there. The call number range is PN 4699 through PN 5650 located on Baker Level 4.

  • journalism
  • online journalism
  • electronic news gathering
  • citizen journalism

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artA dictionary of journalism by Tony Harcup
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780199646241
    A Dictionary of Journalism is an accessible and authoritative quick reference dictionary. It covers over 1,400 wide-ranging entries on the terms that are likely to be encountered by students of the subject, and aims to offer a broad, accessible point of reference on an ever-topical and constantly-changing field that affects everyone's knowledge and perception of the world.
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of international media and communications by Donald H. Johnston, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780123876706
    Everyone agrees that we're living in the Information Age. How have we shaped the Information Age, and how has it shaped us? The Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications exhaustively explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world. ...
  • Cover ArtThe international encyclopedia of journalism studies by Tim P. Vos; Folker Hanusch; Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou; Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh; Annika Sehl, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4728 .I58 2019
    ISBN: 9781118841679
    The definitive reference source on journalism studies for students, researchers, and academics The digital era has seen significant social, economic, and technological change in journalism, invigorating journalism studies as an academic discipline. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies is a unique reference guide and resource on the rapidly growing and evolving field of journalism scholarship, providing credible and timely information on its key concepts, theories, and methodologies. The official encyclopedia of the International Communication Association (ICA) includes more than 250 entries that form a comprehensive overview of the study of journalism as a distinct field. ...
  • Cover ArtInvestigative journalism: a survival guide by David Leigh
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9783030167516
    At a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative journalism has never been more important. This book explores the history and art of investigative journalism, and explains how to deal with legal bullies, crooked politicians, media bosses, big business and intelligence agencies; how to withstand conspiracy theories; and how to work collaboratively across borders in the new age of data journalism. ...
  • Cover artJournalism: a very short introduction by Ian Hargreaves
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4731 .H37 2014
    ISBN: 9780199686872
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time since the birth of the western free press in the eighteenth century. Western journalists had found themselves under a cloud of suspicion: from politicians, philosophers, the general public, anti-globalization radicals, religious groups, and even from fellow journalists. Critics argued that the news industry had lost its moral bearings, focusing on high investment returns rather than reporting and analysing the political, economic, and social issues of the day. ...
  • Cover artWorld press encyclopedia: a survey of press systems worldwide by Amanda C. Quick, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    This comprehensive survey of press and electronic media covers over 200 countries and their systems. Arranged alphabetically by country, entries include overview and background, economic framework, general characteristics, number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations, education and training in journalism, and more.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artAmerican journalism: history, principles, practices by W. David Sloan; Lisa Mullikin Parcell, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4853 .A48 2002
    ISBN: 9780786413713
    These 39 essays, written and edited by the nation's leading professors of journalism, cover the theory and practice of print, radio, and TV news reporting. Politics and partisanship, press and the government, gender and the press corps, presidential coverage, war reportage, technology and news gathering, sensationalism: each subject is treated individually. ...
  • Cover ArtDead tree media: manufacturing the newspaper in twentieth-century North America by Michael Stamm
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781421426051
    Popular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them "dead tree media" as a way of invoking the medium's imminent demise. There is a literal truth hidden in this dismissive expression: printed newspapers really are material goods made from trees. And, throughout the twentieth century, the overwhelming majority of trees cut down in the service of printing newspapers in the United States came from Canada. Dead Tree Media reveals the international history of the commodity chains connecting Canadian trees and US readers. Drawing on newly available corporate documents and research in archives across North America, Stamm offers a sophisticated rethinking of the material history of the printed newspaper. ...
  • Cover artDemocracy and the news by Herbert J. Gans
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4888 .P6 G36 2003
    ISBN: 9780195151329
    American democracy was founded on the belief that ultimate power rests in an informed citizenry. But that belief appears naive in an era when private corporations manipulate public policy and the individual citizen is dwarfed by agencies, special interest groups, and other organizations that have a firm grasp on real political and economic power. Democracy and the News explores the crucial link between a weakened news media and weakened democracy. ...
  • Cover artJournalism after September 11 by Barbie Zelizer; Stuart Allan, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780203818961
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    Journalism After September 11 examines how the traumatic attacks of that day continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain. Familiar notions of what it means to be a journalist, how best to practice journalism, and what the public can reasonably expect of journalists in the name of democracy, were shaken to their foundations. Ten years on, however, new questions arise regarding the lasting implications of that tragic day and its aftermath. ...
  • Cover ArtNews on the right: studying conservative news cultures by Anthony Nadler; A. J. Bauer
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780190913533
    From the National Review to Breitbart, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, conservative news is an inescapable feature of modern politics. Since the early days of mass communication, right-wing media producers have blended reporting with commentary, narrating the news of the day from a perspective informed by conservative worldviews and partisanship. News on the Right seeks to initiate a new interdisciplinary field of scholarly research focused on the study of right-wing media and conservative news. ...
  • Cover artThe vanishing newspaper: saving journalism in the information age by Philip Meyer
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4867.2 .M48 2009
    ISBN: 9780826218773
    Publication Date: 2nd ed.
    Five years ago in The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volume, taking current declines in circulation and the number of dailies into consideration and offering a greater variety of ways to save journalism. Meyer's "influence model" is based on the premise that a newspaper's main product is not news or information, but influence: societal influence, which is not for sale, and commercial influence, which is. The model is supported by an abundance of empirical evidence, including statistical assessments of the quality and influence of the journalist's product, as well as its effects on business success. ...
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