New for Journalism and Mass Communications

Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
"After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, but they believe they have done a better job of covering the American military and the insurgency than they have the lives of ordinary Iraqis. And they do not believe the coverage of Iraq over time has been too negative. If anything, many believe the situation over the course of the war has been worse than the American public has perceived, according to a new survey of journalists covering the war from Iraq. "
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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Available online.
"News about the Iraq war does not dominate the public's consciousness nearly as much as it did last winter. Currently, just 16% of Americans name the Iraq war as the news story that first comes to mind when asked what has been in the news lately... More generally, public interest in news about the situation in Iraq is now less than it was earlier this year or in 2006."
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Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
Available online
"'Green,' the headline writer’s favorite shorthand for 'environmental sustainability,' has become a reliable story element on the nation’s business pages, websites and financial news channels. A content analysis of archived stories and other data shows that 'green' business stories have mushroomed this year; more than half of all the 'green' business stories published since 2000 were printed in 2007 alone."
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Scarecrow Press / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
In this 2003 volume, each contributor selects a poem, movie, song, speech, or other cultural document, analyzes it for implied or explicit ethical lessons, and then applies the lessons of that work to a specific case that involved controversial media conduct.
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Oxford University Press.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Multifaceted, ever-growing database contains "over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines." Includes Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, the Oxford History of Islam, and other significant works.
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Center for Investigative Reporting.
Available online.
Series of reports on government employees who report misconduct in their departments. Did you know there is a Whistleblower Protection Act?
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Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists.
Available online.
Transcript of conversation (also available as audio) with 4 business journalists. Includes this question: "Please pretend that I am a first year journalism student, and I have come to each of you as if you were my mentors, and I want to know what it's going to take to be a successful business journalist in the future. What advice would you give me?"

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National Survey of Student Engagement / Indiana University.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
Based on information from about 313,000 randomly selected firstyear and senior students at 610 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada... Now in its eighth year, the survey findings annually provide comparative standards for determining how effectively colleges are contributing to learning. Five key areas of educational performance are measured: 1) level of academic challenge, 2) active and collaborative learning, 3) student-faculty interaction, 4) enriching educational experiences, and 5) supportive campus environment.

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Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"This report examines trends in Internet-based news traffic for the purpose of peering into the future of news in America... Our examination of traffic to 160 news-based websites over a yearlong period revealed noteworthy patterns. The websites of national “brand-name” newspapers are growing, whereas those of many local papers are not."
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Members of the Washington and Lee University community -- faculty, students, and staff -- now may check out Reference materials and bound periodical volumes from the Leyburn Library and Telford Library collections.

These items can be checked out through "normal" circulation procedures, with proper identification at our Circulation Desks, but for a period of no more than 24 hours.

No renewals or holds are allowed.

If you have questions about how this works, please contact a Reference librarian or Elizabeth Teaff, our Access Services Manager.

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Project for Excellence in Journalism / Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"In the early months of the 2008 presidential campaign, the media had already winnowed the race to mostly five candidates and offered Americans relatively little information about their records or what they would do if elected, according to a comprehensive new study of the election coverage across the media. The press also gave some candidates measurably more favorable coverage than others... All of these findings seem to be at sharp variance with what the public says it wants from campaign reporting."
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