Journalism and Media Studies

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Covers a variety of controversial media topics. From Congressional Quarterly.

A database of scholarly literature on all aspects of communication studies, including discourse, linguistics, media studies, and rhetoric.

Broad humanities and arts coverage.

A database of scholarly literature on all aspects of communication studies, including discourse, linguistics, media studies, and rhetoric.

Comprehensive bibliographic database covering all types of writing on film and television, including academic journals, industry and trade papers, news journalism, and popular magazines.

Coverage of the international literature in sociology and related social and behavioral sciences disciplines.

Full-text content of thousands of North American newspapers and international newspapers, plus wire services and over broadcast news transcripts.

Covers hundreds of international journals, magazines, and newspapers offering an alternative, radical, or left perspective. Explicitly designed as a counterweight to what are seen as mainstream or conservative publications. Coverage begins in 1991.

Bilingual (English and Spanish) database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage begins in 1960.

Search full text of leading newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and television and radio transcripts.

Includes journal articles, books, theses, Internet documents and numerous other sources from contemporary and historically leftist media.

Cross-searching and full text for a suite of newspapers: Chicago Defender, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Gazette, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Includes complete full-page issues from 1926-1984.

Includes access to thousands of hours of NBC and CNN news broadcasts.In addition, the database provides indexing for nightly news programs broadcast by the other national television networks including ABC and CBS. Abstracts of each story within a regular news program are fully searchable. Coverage begins in 1968.

Full text and Indexing for newspapers, news magazines, news wires, blogs, and more. Also includes business, trade and professional journals and publications, court opinions, statutes, regulations, and law reviews and journals.

"Collects many decades of high-impact, sometimes controversial, mostly U.S.-generated journalism that used undercover techniques." A collaboration with NYU Libraries.