New for Journalism and Mass Communications

Scarecrow / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Alphabetically-arranged entries on journalists who frequently "advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems," including such figures as Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, William F. Buckley, Pete Hamill, Thomas Paine, and the Alsop brothers.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.

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Washington and Lee University alumnus Alex Jones ('68), director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is a guest on National Public Radio's Fresh Air program on Tuesday 18 August.
From NPR's description: "Newspapers are in trouble, and many Web sites, blogs and cable news shows have opinionated hosts at the helm. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Jones talks about his book, Losing the News, and the crisis facing impartial reporting."
Audio and more are available from the above link (some time after 3:00 on 8/18/09).
On-air broadcast is scheduled for 6:30 PM on NPR affiliate WVTF.

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U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"Congress has begun debating whether the financial problems in the newspaper industry pose a public policy issue that warrants federal action. Whether a congressional response to the current turmoil is justified may depend on the current causes of the crisis."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.

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University of Georgia.
Available online.
Latest edition of this "annual study "monitors the employment rates and salaries of graduates of journalism and mass communication programs in the United States in the year after graduation. In addition, the survey tracks the curricular activities of those graduates while in college, examines their job-seeking strategies, and provides measures of the professional attitudes and behaviors of the graduates upon completion of their college studies."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.

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Wolters Kluwer.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
A wide array of primary legal resources, offering "access to up-to-date cases, statutes and other primary law at the Federal level and for all fifty states and D.C.," including U.S. Supreme Court Reports, district and circuit courts, the U.S. Constitution, state and Federal laws, etc. (Washington and Lee Law School subscription)
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including this subject listing.

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JSTOR.
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Still in beta testing (August 2009), this service enables researchers to analyze the content of the JSTOR database, including data on word frequencies, publication patterns, key terms, and more. The downloading of data sets is not yet available. Some interesting terms to try:

• "soccer moms"


• negroes


• "afro americans"


• "african americans"

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