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October CommQuote
This month’s quote comes from Index on Censorship (Volume 43, Number 03; Autumn 2014) which features a special section on the future of journalism. The lead piece, Back to the Future, by Iona Craig...
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Internet Television News Archive
It’s hard to keep up with all that the Internet Archive has to offer these days. When it comes to TV news The Vanderbilt Television News Archive may be what first comes to mind (and their coverage...
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Communication and the Moon
Two interesting books came out this year relating to the moon. In Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program by David Meerman Scott, Richard Jurek (MIT Press, 2014), the authors give...
View ArticleBig Data for Media
Just out, a Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (University of Oxford) report titled Big Data for Media. Authored by Martha L. Stone, the 33-page report, which looks at the big data...
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2015 World Press Freedom Index
The news is grim from Reporters Without Borders which has just published its annual index on press freedom around the world, 2015 World Press Freedom Index. The findings are “incontestable. There...
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A Syllabus for the Ages
Anyone interested in journalism or writing in general might want to put themselves through the paces of the course David Carr taught last semester, his first after joining the faculty at Boston...
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Associated Press and British Movietone Newsreels Come to YouTube
Two world famous newsreel archives, The Associated Press and British Movietone, have just announced they are making their footage available on YouTube, making it “the largest upload of historical news...
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In the Life Archive at UCLA
Over the summer The UCLA Film and Television Archive launched a new digital portal of LGBT media materials in concert with the trailblazing TV series In the Life. In addition to a complete collection...
View ArticleJournoblog, a New Meta-blog on the Block
With Journoblog, now there’s a one-stop way of keeping up with all the main journalism/journalism-related blogs. A creation of the Open School of Journalism, compilers gather “feeds of important blogs...
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Historical Coverage of Contraception in the Media
An historical look at birth control and the media is the theme of Journalism & Communication Monographs’ last issue of 2016 (Volume 18, Number 4). The issue’s monograph by Ana C. Garner and Angela...
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Fake News Resources from ALA
The American Library Association has rounded up some resources on one of the hot topics of our day: fake news. In all kinds of libraries–school, public, academic–librarians are offering their...
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