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Journalism

School of Journalism and Communication
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Reference Resources

Encyclopedia of Journalism by Christopher H. Sterling (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
The Encyclopedia of Journalism covers all significant dimensions of journalism, including print, broadcast, and Internet journalism; U.S. and international perspectives; history; technology; legal issues and court cases; ownership; and economics.
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media by John D. H. Downing
ISBN: 1412979315
Publication Date: 2011-01-01

Books

African American Women in the News by Marian Meyers
Call Number: Knight Library 2nd-4th Floors (PN1992.8.A34 M49 2013)
Publication Date: 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube.
Struggles for Equal Voice: The History of African American Media Democracy by Yuya Kiuchi
Call Number: Knight Library 2nd-4th Floors (PN1992.8.A34 K58 2012)
Publication Date: 2012
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Article Databases

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Leading newspaper of the black community.

The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African-Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Indexing and full text of academic journals in the fields of journalism, mass media, and communication. Some coverage of film, rhetoric and communication disorders.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 200 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals published in the U.S, dating back to the mid-1990s.

Searchable in both English and Spanish.

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