Myoung Wilson Social Sciences Librarian mywilson@rci.rutgers.edu Updated by Steve Chudnick June 28, 2004

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Communications:
Internet Resources

• Government Sources
• Legal Resources
• Advertising
• Broadcast and Cable Television
• Internet and Telecommunications
• Journalism
• Publishing
• Electronic Discussion Groups
• Newsgroups/Usenets
• Professional Associations, Organizations, Foundations and Research Institutes
• Public Relations
• Radio

Government Sources

• Census Bureau
• Federal Communications Commission
• Government Information Xchange
• Information Infrastructure Task Force
• Inter-American Telecommunications Commission - CITEL (Organization of American States)
• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• Subcommittee on Communications (Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate)
• Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection (Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives)
• THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet

Legal Sources

• CommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law and Policy
• Communications Media Center at New York Law School (statutory, regulatory, judicial and scholarly materials in the fields of communication, information and media)
• Cyberlaw Cases, Statutes, & Topicals Highlights: Cyberspace Law and Policy
• Information Law Web
• Laws.com
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal help to reporters and news organizations)
• Student Press Law Center

Advertising

• Ad Council
• AdForum.com: Gateway to Advertising in the World
• Advertising Age (The trade publication focusing on the advertising industry.)
• Adweek Online
• American Advertising Federation
• Electronic Retailing Association
• Internet Advertising Resource Guide
• Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc.

Broadcast and Cable Television

• A&E
• ABC (American Broadcasting Company)
• AMC (American Movie Classics)
• BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
• Bravo
• Broadcasting Link: European Broadcasting (links to resources in over 25 European countries and regions)
• CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
• CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)
• CNN (Cable News Network)
• Comedy Central
• Court TV
• Discovery Channel
• Disney Channel
• ESPN
• Fox
• FX (Fox/Liberty Networks)
• HBO (Home Box Office)
• History Channel
• Independent Film Channel
• MSNBC
• MTV (Music Television)
• NBC (National Broadcasting Company)
• NJN (New Jersey Network)
• Parrot Media Network (an internet research tool for advertising agencies, media buyers and planners, and media industry professionals)
• PBS (Public Broadcasting System)
• QVC
• Sci-Fi Channel
• Sundance Channel
• TBS Superstation
• Television News Archive (based at Vanderbilt University: contains over 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming)
• TNT (Turner Network Television)
• TV Show: Television Worldwide (links to resources on television shows, people, news, schedules, stations, production, and technology)
• UPN (United Paramount Network)
• USA Network
• VH-1
• WB (Warners Bros. Television)
• Weather Channel
• UCLA Film and Television Archive (largest university-held moving-image archive in the world: over 220,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage)

Internet and Telecommunications

• Poynter Institute's New Media Bibliography (contains online resources, print articles and book references)
• Thinking About the Internet Pedagogically (Robert E. Wood, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University, Camden, July 1999)

Journalism

• Columbia Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethicity (a repository of high-quality reporting on race and ethinicity)
• Global Beat (resource service for global journalists)
• Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (project of The Norman Lear Center at USC Annenberg)
• Journalist's Compass (an information hub set up to assist communications professionals, students, and interested others do their work more efficiently; hosted by Temple University's Department of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising)
• Journalistic Resources (compiled by Nikos Markovits in Sweden)
• Libraries with Journalism Resources
• Media Ethics Bibliography (A Guide to Online Resources about Media Ethics)
• reporter.org (online journalism resources sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.)
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Ultimate Collection of News Links (global coverage)
• Working Reporter
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Journalism (guide compiled by John S. Makulowich)

Publishing

• Association of American University Presses
• Book Industry Communication's Bookish Home Page
• BookWire
• Harvard University Press
• The Iowa Guide
• Publishers' Catalogue Home Page
• Yahoo! College and University Presses

Electronic Discussion Groups

• JOURNET: Journalism education
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• SPJ-L: Society for Professional Journalists
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• JEA-L: Journalism Education Association
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• NewsLib: News librarians, journalists, and reseachers
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• ACA-L: American Communication Association
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• CRTNET: Communications and research theory network
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• COMLIB-L: Communications Librarians
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• LM_NET: School of Library Media and Network Communication
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• MEDIA: Investigative journalism
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• BRDCST-L: Broadcasting and cable
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• FOI-L: Information issues for journalists, academics, and government officials
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• RADIO-L: Digital audio broadcasters
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Newsgroups/Usenets

• Deja.com A search engine for newsgroups on the WWW
• alt.journalism - journalism and journalism students
       access news:alt.journalism
• alt.journalism.students
       access news:alt.journalism.students
• clari.biz.industry.media - moderated, publishing, journalism, and media
       access news:clari.biz.industry.media
• alt.journalism.moderated - moderated
       access news:alt.journalism
• alt.news-media
       access news:alt.news-media
• rec.radio.broadcasting - moderated, global and domestic broadcast radio
       access news:rec.radio.broadcasting

Professional Associations, Organizations, Foundations and Research Institutes

• Accuracy in Media
• Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
• American Academy of Advertising (organization of advertising scholars and professionals with an interest in advertising and advertising education)
• American Advertising Federation
• American Association of Advertising Agencies
• American Communication Association
• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
• American Press Institute
• American Society of Journalists and Authors
• American Society of Newspaper Editors
• American Women in Radio and Television
• Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (Singapore)
• Association for Business Communication
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
• Association for Progressive Communications
• Association for Women in Communications
• Association of American Publishers
• Association of National Advertisers, Inc. (marketing and advertising trade association)
• Association of Public Relations Consultancies-Spain
• Automotive Public Relations Council
• Benton Foundation (non-profit private organization that attempst to promote communications tools, applications and policies in the public interest)
• Broadcast Education Association
• Business Communications Review
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
• Canadian Association of Journalists/L'Association Canadienne des Journalistes (CAJ)
• Canadian Communication Association/Association Canadienne de Communication (CCA)
• Canadian Public Relations Association
• Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM - Japan)
• Center for Media and Public Affairs
• Center for Media Education
• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
• Computer-Mediated Communication Studies
• Communications Managers Association
• Eastern Communication Association
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Essential Information
• Foundation for American Communications (FACS)
• Freedom Forum Online (Free!)
• Gallup Organization
• Graphic Communications Association
• Information Infrastucture Project (Harvard University)
• Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
• Institute for PR Research and Education
• Institute for Public Relations
• Institute of Public Relations
• Institute of Public Relations of Singapore
• International Advertising Association
• International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
• International Communication Association
• International Communications Industries Association, Inc.
• International Newspaper Marketing Association
• International Press Institute (IPI)
• International Press Telecommunications Council
• International Public Relations Association

- and also see:

• Association of Public Relations of the Slovak Republic
• Belgian Public Relations Consultants Association
• Canadian Public Relations Society, Inc.
• Institute of Public Relations (United Kingdom)
• Institute of Public Relations of Singapore
• Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
• Public Relations Association (Mauritius)
• Public Relations Institute of Ireland
• Public Relations Institute of New Zealand
• Public Relations Society of Japan (in Japanese)
• Public Relations Society of Slovenia
• Swiss Public Relations Institute
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU - Geneva)
• International Telecommunications Society
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Internet Society
• Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
• Magazine Publishers of America
• Media Ecology Organization
• Media Institute (Washington, D.C.)
• National Association of Black Journalists
• National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
• National Association of Government Communicators
• National Conference of Editorial Writers
• National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)
• National Newspaper Association
• National Newspaper Publishers Association
• National Press Club
• National School Public Relations Association
• National Writers Union
• New Jersey Collegiate Press Association
• New Jersey Communication Association
• New Jersey Press Association
• Newsletter Publishers Association
• Newspaper Association of America
• Nielsen Media Research
• North American Broadcasters Association
• Organization of News Ombudsmen
• Poynter Institute's List of Journalism Organization Links
• Project for Excellence in Journalism
• Public Relations Consultants Association of Turkey
• Public Relations Institute of Australia
• Public Relations Institute of New Zealand
• Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa
• Public Relations Institute of Slovenia
• Organization of News Ombudsmen
• Public Relations Society of America
• Pulitzer Prizes presented by CJR
• Radio-Television News Directors Association / Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDA / RTNDF)
• Reporters Network
• Society of Broadcast Engineers
• Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business
• Society of National Association Publications
• Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)
• Southern States Communication Association
• International Speech Communication Association
• State Press Associations
• Swedish Public Relations Association
• Unda-USA: The National Catholic Association for Communicators
• Virtual Institute of Information (an internet based, independent telecommunications and mass media research facility, managed by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia Business School, Columbia Universi)
• Women Executives in Public Relations
• World Association of Newspapers
• World Federation of Advertisers

Public Relations

• Corporate Communications Studies (includes a searchable database of over 1,400 PR corporate communication and public affairs products, services and organizations)
• CyberPulse's Online Directory of Public Relations Agencies and Resources
• International Public Relations Association
• Online Public Relations (directory of online resources)
• PR Central (includes publications, a library of case histories, directories of useful names, and the opportunity to interact with colleagues)
• PR Network (membership organizartion offering resources for communications professionals)
• PR Place: The Quick-Find Internet Source on Public Relations
• PR Web (includes an online database of current press releases, a directory of PR firms, and other resources)
• Public Relations Student Society of America
• YearbookNews.com (search engine and guide to experts and interview sources for working members of the media)

Radio

• American Journalism Review News Link's Directory of U.S. Radio Stations on the Web
• BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5
• Media UK Internet Directory Radio Index
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Pacifica Radio
• Public Radio International (PRI)
• Radio 411 (extensive directory of radio resources)
• Radio Australia
• Radiodirectory.com (an index for professional broadcasters)
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
• Radio Japan
• Radio Netherlands
• TVRadioWorld - Radio and Television Internet Broadcast Directory (includes worldwide listings of radio broadcasters)
• Voice of America
• Voice of Russia