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Welcome to the research guide for News Reporting. This guide contains research materials and links to help you make this class a success.
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The following can help you start your research.
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Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
- Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles.
- American Journalism
Articles & book reviews on media history, including the history of broadcasting, advertising, public relations, & media outside of the United States, & communication of history in general.
Journalism by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780335214754Publication Date:What are the key issues confronting journalism today, and why? What are the important debates regarding the forms and practices of reporting? How can the quality of news be improved? Journalism: Critical Issues explores essential themes in news and journalism studies. It brings together an exciting selection of original essays which engage with the most significant topics,debates and controversies in this fast-growing field.
Journalism by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781501500084Publication Date:This volume sets out the state-of-the-art in the discipline of journalism at a time in which the practice and profession of journalism is in serious flux. While journalism is still anchored to its history, change is infecting the field. The profession, and the scholars who study it, are reconceptualizing what journalism is in a time when journalists no longer monopolize the means for spreading the news.
Communication at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Arts & Sciences
The departments within the school offer a total of fifteen majors and twenty minors at the undergraduate level and a master of arts in American studies at the graduate level.
- Communication Department
The Communication Department is comprised of the Mass Communication and Speech Communication Programs.
- Mass Communication
The Bachelor of Science Program in Mass Communication enables students to reach their full potential through guidance, instruction, and learning experiences in preparation for graduate studies or careers in communications and related fields.
- Speech & Theatre
The Speech and Theatre Program strives to enable its members to achieve learning excellence and reach their full potential through guidance, instruction, and learning experiences in preparation for graduate studies and professional applications in speech- and theatre-related fields.