Journalism: Getting Started
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Find Articles about Journalism
Search these databases to find articles about trends and topics in Journalism.
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Communication and Mass Media CompleteFull-text articles relating to all aspects of communication and mass media.
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Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)Over 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
Explanations & background reports
Need an explanation or an overview of an issue? Give one of these databases a try when you need to get a handle on a topic or an issue.
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CQ ResearcherTopical, full text reports on controversial issues. Each report features a summary, chronology, and bibliography. Updated weekly.
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Gale Ebooks (formerly GVRL)Gale eBooks has over 200 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Look here for biology, chemistry, nursing and medicine, sociology, history, education, law, and more.
Newspaper databases
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Alt-PressWatchA full text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. View the Alt-Press Watch handout.
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Ethnic NewswatchFull text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic minority and native press. Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Also a good source of ethnic recipes. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. View the Ethnic NewsWatch handout
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News (Gale OneFile)Provides access to selected articles from nearly 2,500 major newspapers, including U.S. regional, national, and local papers as well as leading titles from around the world. Does not include The Oregonian.
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Newspaper SourceFull text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, newspaper columns as well as 24 TV and radio news transcripts. Also contains indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.
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US Major DailiesFull text newspapers from five U.S. national and regional newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune
Find Books, eBooks & Videos
The Library search box is your starting point to find books, ebooks, DVDs, and other materials.
Oregonian coverage of summer 2020 protests for racial justice
"Portland's Burning Heart" uses a combination of iPhone footage, on-the-ground photography and haunting voice over to tell the story of Portland's ongoing street protests from the perspective of a woman who knows them well: Emmy-winning photojournalist Beth Nakamura of The Oregonian. Beth is the burning heart at the center of the film, and over the course of its 13 minutes we watch as she evolves from local reporter to teargas-dodging, stab-vest-wearing conflict journalist.
Interviews with Journalists
The power of language
‘Riots,’ ‘demonstrations,’ or ‘peaceful protests’? How a news organization's language choices can shape public understanding of events.
Article posted on CIVIX, a Canadian news literacy site: July 06, 2020
Journalism in PCC Library
The following links will take you to books, videos and other library materials on that topic in the PCC Library:
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Blogging by Publication Date: 2013
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Interviewing by Publication Date: 2014
The Bridge
Check out The Bridge, PCC's online student newspaper. Interested in the former printed edition? Check out The Bridge (1974-2002). Want to get involved? You can write for the bridge, too: http://pccbridge.com/index.php/write-for-us/
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