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Subject Guide for Journalism and Mass Communication

Reference Resources

Below is a list of print and online materials that can help you being your research. Note: Clicking on the call number for each book will bring you to the record in the Chinook Library Catalog.

PRINT RESOURCES

Bibliographies

• American Journalism History: An Annotated Bibliography
• An Annotated Journalism Bibliography, 1958-1968
• Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature
• Mass Communications Research Resources: An Annotated Guide
• Women and Mass Communications in the 1990s: An International, Annotated Bibliography

Biographies

• The Ad Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising
• Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism
• Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists
• Contemporary Authors / Online Access
• Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Journalists
• Front-Page Women Journalists
• Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors
• Twentieth-Century Journalists: America's Opinionmakers
• Who's Who in the Media and Communications / Online Access
• Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook

Dictionaries

• Communications Standard Dictionary
• Dictionary of Advertising
• Dictionary of Broadcast Communications
• A Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
• The Facts on File Dictionary of Film and Broadcast Terms
• International Dictionary of Broadcasting and Film
• NTC's Dictionary of Advertising
• NTC's Mass Media Dictionary
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications

Directories

• Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook (Annual)
• Bowker's News Media Directory
• Editor and Publisher International Yearbook
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• World Media Handbook
• World Radio TV Handbook

Encyclopedias

• The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Media in America
• Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising
• American Journalism: A History, 1690-1960
• The Concise Encyclopedia of Ethics in Politics and the Media
• Encyclopedia of American Journalism
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
• Encyclopedia of New Media
• Encyclopedia of Television News (Electronic Book)
• Encyclopedia of Television, Cable and Video
• Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422 - 1992
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media and Communications
• History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia
• International Encyclopedia of Communications
• World Press Encyclopedia

Handbooks

• Covering the Courts: A Handbook for Journalists
• The Ethnic press in the United States : a historical analysis and handbook
• Handbook of American Popular Culture
• Handbook of Children and the Media
• A Handbook of Media and Communications Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
• Handbook on Mass Media in the United States: The Industry and Its Audiences
• Media and American Courts: A Reference Handbook
• Media and Politics in America: A Reference Handbook
• The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies
• Violence and the Media: A Reference Handbook (Electronic Book)
• World Broadcasting: A Comparative View

Indexes

• Index to Journals in Communication Studies through 1995

Periodical Guides

• American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals
• American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals
• Black Journals of the United States
• History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers
• A History and Bibliography of American Magazines, 1810-1820
• History of American Magazines, 1741 - 1930 (Electronic Book)
• Magazines of the American South
• The Negro Press in the United States
• Popular Religious Magazines of the United States
• Women's periodicals in the United States : Consumer Magazines
• Women's periodicals in the United States : Social and Political Issues

Research Methods

• Communication Research Measures: a Sourcebook
• Communication Research: Strategies and Sources
• Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net
• A Handbook of Media and Communications Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
• Popular Entertainment Research: How To Do It and How To Use It
• Television Research
• Qualitative research in journalism : taking it to the streets

ONLINE RESOURCES

Associations and Organizations

• American Communication Association
• Federal Communications Commission
• International Communication Association
• National Communication Association
• National Press Club
• Society of Professional Journalists
• Student Communication Association

Biographies

• Contemporary Authors
• Who's Who in the Media and Communications

Publications

• Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields

Other Resources

• Journalist's Road to Success - Career and Scholarship Resources (from Dow Jones Newspaper Fund)
• Media History Project (from the University of Minnesota)
• Media Literacy Online Project (from the University of Oregon)
• Media Studies (Portal site from the University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Media and Communication Studies site (from the University of Wales)