About this Guide
This is a broad based guide that covers a variety of sources relevant to Journalism study and practice.
Description of Contents:
- Articles Lists key library databases in the areas of news, general (all purpose), communications and business
- Books Lists platforms for finding books plus some key reference directories.
- Research Process Use library research guides for beat reporting. Provides an overview of information literacy standards for journalism students.
- Find Stories Wire service sources, setting up alerts, social media, and local government sites.
- Background Library databases that can add context to your story, databases, public records, government documents, images, statistics, and historical news.
- Evaluate Resources for fact checking and verifying information. plus including diverse perspectives,
- Nexis Uni: News Searching Use this for searching wire services, broadcast news transcripts, national and international news sources, and to discover what has already been reported.
- Areas of Practice & Associations Links out to course guides for journalism & lists news trade associations and organizations.
- AP & APA Style The library has copies of the AP and APA style guides at the Research Help Desk.
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Take a look at the list of Past winners & finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. There are many categories such as: Explanatory Journalism, Investigative Reporting, National Reporting, Breaking News, Public Service, Local, etc.
