BCN 204 - The University Libraries

BCN 204 - Introduction to Media Writing

Hilliard, Robert L. Writing for Television, Radio and New Media. 8th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Thomson, 2004.
location: PN1990.9 .A88H55 2004

Yopp, Jan Johanson. Reaching Audiences: A Guide to Media Writing. 3rd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
location: P96 .A86M38

Itule, Bruce D. News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media. 6th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
location: Reserve Room PN4781 .I78

Stovall, James Glenn. Writing for the Mass Media. 6th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2006.
location: P96 .A86S8 2006

Ellmore, R. Terry NTC's Mass Media Dictionary. Lincolnwood: National Textbook, 1991.
location: ref P87.5 .E45 and NetLibrary

Weiner, Richard. Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications.
New York: Macmillan, 1996.
location: ref P87.5 .W45

Boolean Searching using connectors AND, OR, and NOT.

Provides indexing and abstracting of articles in several hundred journals in the fields of mass media and human communication.
Includes and extensively supplements the Mass Media Index formerly created and maintained at Pennsylvania State University. More info.

Choose the following three databases by clicking in the boxes beside them: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier.
These databases index a few thousand popular magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas, including broadcasting, communication technologies, documentaries, films, media theory, radio, and television.

This database is a single database from InfoTrac covering a few thousand popular magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas, including broadcasting, communication technologies, documentaries, films, media theory, radio, and television.

LexisNexis provides the best coverage of newspapers (beyond the half dozen national newspapers covered by a few other databases) by covering many newspapers from throughout the country and newswires.
It is also the best database for legal information (case law and journal articles from law reviews).
Other features important for broadcasting and cinema topics are the Polls and Surveys section in the broad category of Reference and the News Transcripts in the broad category of News.
Browse the five major categories-News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference-to see what the database offers. Also note that the default search covers only the last six months. Generally you will need to change that to more appropriate time periods.

Click on Databases Selected (upper left corner) and choose from ABI/Inform,--covering business publications (the Archive portion covers materials prior to 1986), ProQuest Research Library--covering a few thousand popular magazines and scholarly journals, or ProQuest Newspapers--covering the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the (Greensboro) News and Record, and--selectively--a few other North Carolina newspapers.
To search the full text of an article, click on Advanced Search and change "Citation and Abstract" to "Article Text" in the drop down menu. All areas of broadcasting and cinema are covered by these databases.

This link takes you to all the newspaper databases offered at UNCG as well as a list of our print newspapers. Some, though not all, are mentioned in the description of the four databases above.

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