New for Journalism and Mass Communications

Religion Newswriters Association.
Available online.
"Guide created for journalists who report on religion in the mainstream media. It includes entries on the major religions, denominations and religious organizations journalists often encounter; preferred spellings, capitalizations, some definitions and usage guidelines for religious terms; accurate titles for religious leaders in different traditions; selected pronunciation guides;" and more.
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.
"Americans continue to follow news about the economic crisis closely because they feel it is directly relevant to their lives. More than eight-in-ten (85%) say even when the economic news is bad they feel better knowing what's going on, while 77% say they need to stay on top of economic news because it matters in the financial decisions they make."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Consumers Union.
Available online.
"The billions of photographs and videos now available on the Web -- some by professionals and an enormous number by amateurs --- are increasingly difficult to interpret." This is a brief guide (10 pages) to "some of the key issues and terms to help consumers make sense of Web-based imagery."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Gale / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Eighth edition (2009) contains essays and directory information on over 2,300 religious groups in North America, plus essays on U.S. and Canadian religions and 21st century religion.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
"The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama Administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed. And that transformation will markedly alter what Americans know and not know about the new government, as well as who will know it and who will not. A careful accounting of the numbers, plus detailed interviews with journalists, lawmakers, press association executives and government officials, reveals that what we once thought of as the mainstream news media serving a general public has indeed shrunk--perhaps far more than many would imagine."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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New York Times.
Available online.
"Virtually every newspaper in America has gone through waves of staff layoffs and budget cuts as advertisers and subscribers have marched out the door, driven by the move to the Web and, more recently, the economic crisis... What survival strategies should these dailies adopt?" A handful of journalism professionals, including Nicholas Lemann and Steven Brill, respond.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Cambridge University Press.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Based on the Cambridge Companions series, this ever-growing database currently contains over 2,000 essays offering "introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods." It includes the contents of over 290 volumes in the Cambridge Companions series in Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here

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Knight Citizen News Network.
Available online.
Guide to help "new media makers understand how to obtain public records and get into public meetings."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
A weekly report " that captures the leading commentary of blogs and social media sites focused on news and compares those subjects to that of the mainstream press."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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