Research Guides: Journalism, Broadcasting and Public Relations: Research Start Points

2024 Journalism Conference

PUFFIN NATION STUDENT JOURNALISM CONFERENCE
9:30am – 7:00pm EST, Friday, May 31, 2024
An in-person conference produced by The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism
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APPLICATION: In a cover letter of not-more-than 250 words, tell us where you’re from, where you go to school and why you want to attend this conference. Please include one published piece of journalism. All applications will be acknowledged and considered on a rolling basis until May 1, 2024. Email applications to studentconf@thenation.com.

A Selection of Supporting Databases @ Drake Library

Associated Press Images Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains many primary sources (photos, audio, news stories, maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, and illustrations) from 1826 - current.
Business Insights This link opens in a new window
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Provides mostly full-text company information, including articles, earnings, investments, reports, rankings and market share.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Best database for communication, journalism and media. Features biographical profiles on the 3000 most searched authors.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Contains reports on public policy issues, with pro/con commentary and chronologies. Includes background information and lists of relevant books and articles.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Offers deep coverage in areas of agriculture, ecology, energy, geography, public policy, urban planning and law. Coverage 1940s - Present. Provided by SUNYConnect.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. 1990- current.
Gannett Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Exclusive access to 85 full-text local and regional newspapers spanning 30 states.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Provides primary documentation, statistical information, and viewpoint articles for controversial issues. Great for opinion papers.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

Research Guides @ Drake Library

The following list of Drake Library's research guides will assist you in your beginning and background research

Business and Economic: Offers information on business statistics, international business, marketing, advertising and consumers

Government Documents: Documents produced by branches and agencies of the Federal Government and New York State are available online.

Legal Resources: Law databases, how to cite the law and external links from federal statutes to NYS school laws.

New York State: Information, Legislation, Government & Document: NYS government links on topics ranging from agriculture to voter registration.

Newspapers & Images: Free access to the NYTimes, along with current newspaper databases, historical newspaper databases and art images databases

Statistical Information: U. S. and international statistics in fourteen categories from agriculture to religion

Pulitzer Prize Winner: Spot News Photography

Stanley Forman’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo, The Soiling of Old Glory, remains iconic, decades after it was captured. A white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaults a black lawyer and civil rights activist, Ted Landsmark, seconds before he is assaulted by a second teenager with an American flag. The attack took place on April 5, 1976, during a protest in Boston against court-ordered desegregation of school busing.

Forman, S. (1976). [Photograph]. Boston Herald American. https://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494442131/life-after-iconic-photo-todays-parallels-of-american-flags-role-in-racial-protes

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2024 Journalism Conference

A Selection of Supporting Databases @ Drake Library

Research Guides @ Drake Library

Pulitzer Prize Winner: Spot News Photography