Journalism

A quick and easy search tool to find media ownership. Includes Canadian companies as well as U.S.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Provides archival and current data and statistics on U.S. news media and stories. The focus is on content analysis of news, and there are weekly indexes of stories covered in different media. Provides analysis of trends, issues and reporting. Publishes an annual report, available on the website, The State of the News Media, from 2004 to 2008. Originally affiliated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and now part of the PEW Research Centre .

Project of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

From the Society of Professional Journalists

Provides images of the frontpages of over 600 U.S. and international newspapers. Also provides an archive of frontpages for special news events from 2001 to the present.

Provides links to news outlets from around the world, by continent, country, city and more.

An organization that represents the newspaper industry. Trends and Numbers section provides figures for circulation, audience, research and advertising revenues.

From the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

An independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues

From the Federal Communications Commission several studies on media ownership in the U.S.

Part of a great guide for journalism resources from Eastern Washington University Libraries.

Indexes and provides abstracts of news broadcasts from major U.S. broadcast networks. Streaming video is available for NBC newscasts from 1968 onwards, and for CNN beginning in 1995.

Created and maintained by Alan Liu of U.C. Santa Barbara, this is an excellent collection of research links.

Created and maintained by Alan Liu of U.C. Santa Barbara, this is an excellent collection of research links.