Here are resources newly available in Leyburn Library and/or through our Web site.
A more complete listing of journalism-related resources at Washington and Lee is available here.
New U.S. Government materials are listed here.
If you have questions or comments about this blog, please contact Dick Grefe.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- 2009 Digital Influence in News and Politics Report
- The Future of Newspapers: The Impact on the Economy and Democracy
- New Life for Life
- Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
- Governing's State and Local Sourcebook
- "Stop the Presses! Revamped Journalism Courses Attract Hordes of Students"
- Press Accuracy Rating Hits Two Decade Low; Public Evaluations of the News Media, 1985-2009
- Crisis Communication
- Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors
- W&L Alum on Fresh Air
- The U.S. Newspaper Industry in Transition
- 2008 Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates
- Loislaw
- JSTOR Data for Research
- Encyclopedia of the First Amendment
- "News Websites in Texas and Kentucky Invoke Shield Laws for Online Commenters"
- More W&L Library Cuts
- American Attitudes: What Americans Think About the Issues That Shape Their Lives
- Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies That Defined America
- Post Global: The Future of Newspapers
- Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy
- "Wikipedia Hoax Points to Limits of Journalists' Research"
- The Future of Journalism
- Pulitzer Prizes -- 2009 Winners and Finalists
- The Internet's Role in Campaign 2008
- "Making the News: Jobs in TV Journalism"
- Library Subscriptions Cuts
- Election 2004 Web Archive
- State of the News Media, 2009
- New York Times "Skimmer"
- "The Future of Fact Checking"
- Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Three New Investigative Sites
- Television across Europe: More Channels, Less Independence
- Reporting on Religion 2: A Stylebook on Journalism's Best Beat
- Most Feel a Personal Stake in Tracking Economic News
- Photos on the Web: A Consumer's Guide
- Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions
- The New Washington Press Corps: As Mainstream Media Decline, Niche and Foreign Outlets Grow
- "Battle Plans for Newspapers"
- Cambridge Collections Online
- Citizen Journalist's Guide To Open Government
- New Media Index
- Presidential Web Sites
- Media in Italy
- Media in Latin America
- Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
- "Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Outlet"
- Calling Cell Phones in '08 Pre-Election Polls
- What is Financial Journalism For? Ethics and Responsibility in a Time of Crisis and Change
- MainStreet Economic Recovery Report
- "News You Can Lose"
- American Law Yearbook, 2008
- "The Holiday-Suicide Myth"
- Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
- Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media
- Airbrushing History, American Style
- Crimes and Trials of the Century
- "Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease"
- World Press Trends, 2008
- "The Hyped Panic Over 'War of the Worlds' "
- Commission on Presidential Debates
- Ballot Measures Database
- A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate
- What's the Difference between Sociology and Journalism?
- Absentee Voter Guide
- How Economic News Moves Markets
- Hollywood & Health: Health Content in Entertainment Television
- Teens, Video Games, and Civics
- Journalists’ Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses
- Cambridge Histories Online
- Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents
- Campaign 2008
- Television Studies: The Key Concepts
- Citizen Media Law Project's Legal Guide
- Historical Dictionary of African-American Television
- "New" Library Web Site
- The Changing Newsroom
- Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update
- Reporters’ Guide to Covering the Beijing Olympics
- Health News Review
- Press Coverage and Political Accountability
- Safire's Political Dictionary
- New Article Databases
- International Encyclopedia Of Communication
- Guides to U.S. Politics and Government
- More Historical Newspapers
- Freedom of the Press 2008 Survey
- 21st Century Muckrakers
- Encyclopedia Of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, And Electoral Behavior
- Statistical Handbook On The Social Safety Net
- The "New" Lexington News-Gazette
- MediaPolicy.org
- Encyclopedia Of Political Communication
- HeritageQuest Online
- Pulitzer Prize Winners, 2008
- onPoverty.org
- European Journalism Center
- U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2007
- State of the News Media
- 2008 Media Internship Book
- Library Newspapers
- George Polk Awards
- Encyclopedia Of American Journalism
- Where Men and Women Differ in Following the News
- Two New Volumes
- World Report, 2008
- Internet's Broader Role in Campaign 2008
- The Impact of "Cell-Only's" on Public Opinion Polls
- Virginia Local Tax Rates, 2007
- Encyclopedia Of International Media And Communications
- Encyclopedia Of Public Relations
- Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-bagehot Guide To Economics And Business Journalism
- Encyclopedia Of Religion, Communication, And Media
- World Press Trends, 2007
- Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature?
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2008
- The FCC's 10 Commissioned Economic Research Studies on Media Ownership: Policy Implications
- Pew Research Center Reports on the News Media
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- PBS Documentary on Student Newspaper
- "Sexual Readiness, Household Policies, and Other Predictors of Adolescents' Exposure to Sexual Content in Mainstream Entertainment Television"
- Silencing Sources: An International Survey of Protections and Threats to Journalists’ Sources
- Journalists in Iraq: A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines
- Iraq News: Less Dominant, Still Important
- "Green" Reporting in Business News Sections
- Desperately Seeking Ethics: A Guide To Media Conduct
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online
- The War on Whistleblowers
- 'A Fragmenting of the Audience': The State of Business Journalism
- Experiences That Matter: Enhancing Student Learning and Success
- Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet
- Circulating Reference and Bound Periodicals
- The Invisible Primary -- Invisible No Longer; A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
- Well Connected; Tracking the Players in Telecommunications, Media, and Technology
- Pew Global Attitudes Survey
- American Editor
- Journalists' Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture, Society, History
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive Trial Access
- PolitiFact.com
- Cell Phone Driving Laws
- New York Times Online
- TechPresident.com
- "Goodbye to Newspapers?"
- Legislative Tracking Web
- Internship Series Online Updated
- NewsLab
- Stock Market Tables in Business News Sections
- Privatization v. The Public's Right to Know
- Two Decades of American News Preferences
- Love and Fear in the Time of Media Consolidation:A Survey of Asian American Journalists
- Annie Gets Colorful -- And Better
- Online Congressional Hearings
- Almanac of Federal PAC's
- New Online Reference Books
- Greenwood Library of American War Reporting
- More Online Reference Works
- Young People and News
- Biographical Directories
- The Local TV News Experience
- J-Tools
- LexisNexis Academic Changes
- Parents, Children & Media
- Images Kids See on the Screen
- Climate Change: A Guide to the Information and Disinformation
- Confidentiality Complications
- TV Network News Top Source of News and Information Today
- Service Guide for Foreign Media Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games and the Preparatory Period
- "Digital Childhood: Electronic Media and Technology Use Among Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers"
- New York Times Select
- Early American Newspapers Online
- Quarterly News Content Index
- Protecting Bloggers as Journalists
- American Law Yearbook, 2006
- Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization: Researchers Present the Facts and Debunk Myths
- Tragedy at Virginia Tech
- In the Matter of Violent Television Programming and its Impact on Children
- Pulitzer Prize Winners, 2007
- "Race, Riches & Reporters – Do Race and Class Impact Media Rape Narratives? An Analysis of the Duke Lacrosse Case"
- What Americans Know, 1989-2007; Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions
- The "Good" Muslims: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Pakistan
- Breaking News: Coverage of the Virginia Tech Shootings
- "The Effect of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence"
- The State of the News Media, 2007
- Crossing the Water’s Edge: Elite Rhetoric, Media Coverage and the Rally-Round-the-Flag Phenomenon, 1979-2003
- Encyclopedia Of Children, Adolescents, And The Media
- Mock Convention Research
- The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict
- The Capital Source
- Virginia Local Tax Rates, 2006
- The News Media's Influence on Criminal Justice Policy: How Market-Driven News Promotes Punitiveness
- Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
- Online Ethics Guidelines
- Misfortunes of War: Press and Public Reactions to Civilian Deaths in Wartime
- Internship Series Online
- Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
- Freedom of the Press Worldwide in 2007
- Blackwell Synergy Journal Collection
- Goodbye, Gutenberg
- Dying to Entertain; Violence on Prime Time Broadcast Television, 1998 to 2006
- Homelessness in American: Media Handbook
- A Portrait of "Generation Next" -- How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics
- USA.gov
- Media Bloggers Association
- "Automatic" Annie Searches
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2007
- Still Growing After All These Years: Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Television, 2001-2005
- Talking to Strangers on MySpace: Teens' Use of Internet Social Networking Sites
- HIV/AIDS Global Media Guide, 2006
- Annual Video Game Report Card
- Congressional Record
- War Coverage in Cyberspace
- New Books
- Rethinking the Discourse on Race; A Symposium on How the Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy
- Richmond Daily Dispatch
- Google Search -- Leyburn Library Journalism Resources
- 2006 Election Collections
- The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms
- Supreme Court Yearbook
- Worldwide Press Freedom Index, 2006
- Who Votes, Who Doesn't, and Why
- National Brownout Report, 2006
- On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change
- Webster's New World Robert's Rules of Order
- Vital Statistics on American Politics
- Congress and the Nation
- African American Experience
- Chicago Manual of Style Online
- Guide to Public Opinion Poll Web Sites
- Blackwell Journals
- FactCheck.org
- Elections 2006 -- A Reporter's Guide to Voter Guides
- Newspaper Audience Database
- First Informers in the Disaster Zone: The Lessons of Katrina
- New Statistical E-Books (W&L subscriptions)
- Academic OneFile
- Global Voices
- Ballot Issues and Campaign Finance
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Do Local Owners Deliver More Localism? Some Evidence from Local Broadcast News
- JSTOR Changes
- Internships Series Online
- Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age
- College Bound Seniors, 2006
- Does We Have This Journal?
- CJR Daily
- American Women: Who They Are and How They Live
- Religionlink.org
- Open Government Guide
- View Your Library Record
- Book of the States
- Making the Right Call: Jobs and Diversity in the Communications and Media Sector
- Amateur Hour; Journalism Without Journalists
- The Incumbent in the Living Room
- Reporting from Qatar, This is Al-Jazeera
- News Consumption Survey
- Racial and Ethnic Diversity
- State Blue Books
- Bloggers As Reporters
- Project Muse Journal Notifications
- Freedom of Information Around the World, 2006
- Knight Science Journalism Tracker
- The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other
- The Cyberjournalist List
- U.S. News Magazine Coverage of Latinos: 2006 Report
- The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and their Parents
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