New for Journalism and Mass Communications

With the intallation of a new Presidential Administration, the official White House Web site takes on a new look and new content. Thus, WhiteHouse.gov now looks quite different from how it did on January 19. And the difference is not just cosmetic.

Where do old White House Web sites go when they die? They live on, due to the diligence of the U.S. National Archives, enabling us to see and use snapshots of the sites in the Clinton and Bush Administrations.

There is a page in the W&L University Library Web site with more information on Presidential materials.

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McGraw-Hill / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
This 2008 volume, subtitled Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, offers an introductory exploration of "the key historical processes and events in the growth and development of Italy's main media and considers it in the context of the economic, political, socio-cultural and technological movements that have affected Italy."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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McGraw-Hill / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
2008 volume contains signed essays which explore "the most relevant aspects of the media in each society," including country-by-country coverage of 12 nations.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Macmillan / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Five-volume set (2008) contains about 1,100 signed articles "on the substance of American law, the processes that produce its legal principles, and the history of the Supreme Court, from its creation to the present," covering "concepts, cases, topics, personalities, institutions, events, and processes." Among the entries are several by members of the W&L School of Law faculty -- Dean Rodney Smolla, Ann Massie, Scott Sundby, and the late Louise Halper.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Available online.
"The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as an outlet for national and international news."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Available online.
"This study describes the differences between estimates of the horse race and other
political measures that Pew reported this fall with those that would have been derived from surveys conducted only by landline. It also addresses the difference between supplementing landline surveys with a sample of people who are "cell only" vs. interviewing all cell respondents even if they also have a landline phone."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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POLIS.
Available online.
"The current crisis in global banking, markets and economies has reminded us all of
the importance of financial and business journalism. It has also raised a set of profound questions as to the quality of that form of reporting. Why didn't we know this
was coming?"
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Available online.
Database of information on "infrastructure projects that are 'ready to go' in cities across the nation - projects that meet local infrastructure needs, can be funded through existing federal channels, start quickly when funding is received, and generate the significant numbers of jobs that are needed to counter the severe economic problems we face today in our metro areas and our nation as a whole."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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