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Mass Communication LibGuide: Websites

How to access eBooks, journal articles, subject-related websites and videos.

Websites

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States. Founded in 1946, the organization presents the Primetime Emmy Awards, an annual ceremony honoring achievement in U.S. primetime television.

American Press Institute

The American Press Institute advances an innovative and sustainable news industry by helping publishers understand and engage audiences, grow revenue, improve public-service journalism, and succeed at organizational change. Its website offers Insights, tools and research to advance journalism.

Annenberg Public Policy Center

The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania has been the premier communication policy center in the country since its founding in 1993. APPC’s work has informed the policy debates around campaign finance, children’s television, Internet privacy, tobacco advertising and the tone of discourse in Washington. Its website is designed to give scholars, the media and the general public expanded access to the work that they began in 1993.

Associated Press

News from The Associated Press, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.

Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

CIMA is an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). CIMA works to improve the development of independent media worldwide while working to strengthen the support for such development.

FactCheck.org

This is a nonprofit website that describes itself as a "consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics”. It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. 

Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media

The website features an expanded topics list so users can easily explore more than a decade’s worth of in-depth, cutting-edge research on who is reporting news, what is being reported and how news is consumed.

Reuters Media News Headlines

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news professionals via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.