camera Global Journalism Research Guide rolled newspaper

This Web page is intended to be of use to students of the Medill School of Journalism's Global Journalism Seminar 410. The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department (Gov Info) collects the historic and current publications of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). An IGO is a structure based on a formal instrument of agreement between nations. The Department welcomes members of the Northwestern community and the public. For assistance with these resources, please visit the Department or contact the reference desk by phone at 1-847-491-3130 or e-mail at govinfo@northwestern.edu.

Contents:

  • Part 1: directories of international media
  • Part 2: international news sources
  • Part 3: books, articles and Web sites about global journalism
  • Part 4: statistics of international communication and information


 Part 1: directories of international media
 
For ready reference, use the BBC News Country Profiles web site at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm. In addition to an overview, basic facts and brief information about the country's leaders, each profile includes a description of the country's media. Profiles list (and link to) press and news agencies, television and radio stations and internet services.
For comprehensive research, use the following directories to find publications and broadcast media in a particular country. After identifying publications and broadcasts, use the sources of international news, listed in Part 2, to access the content of those media. Please notice that these directories are in the Main Reference Department.

Europa World Year Book. London, England: Europa Publications Limited, annual. Call number: Main Reference Desk 314.2 E892.

  • Europa contains detailed surveys of over 250 countries and territories.
  • The entry for each country and territory includes a guide to the most important media and organizations in the press (including lists of principal newspapers and periodicals), news agencies, publishers, and broadcasting and communications (including telecommunications, broadcasting, radio and television).

Hedblad, Alan, ed. Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. Detroit: Gale Research, annual. Call number: Main Reference 016.05 A51

  • This is a comprehensive list of media. Volume 5 lists international media sources by country.
  • The Gale Directory is "an annual guide to publications and broadcasting stations including newspapers, magazines, journals, radio stations, television stations, and cable systems."

SRDS International Media Guides

  • International Media Guide: Consumer magazines worldwide. Call number: Main Reference L050.25 I61
    Covers 4,700 consumer magazines from around the world organized in 24 subject categories.
  • International Media Guide: Newspapers worldwide. Call number: Main Reference L 070.025 D559
    Lists 2,500 leading newspapers in every major city in the world.
  • These directories are published as marketing tools. Businesses use them to place advertisements in foreign publications.

see also
Drost, Harry, ed. The World's News Media: a Comprehensive Reference Guide. Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom: Longman Current Affairs, 1991. Call number: Main Reference 070.1025 W927.


 Part 2: international news sources
 

News sources available on NUnet

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Global Newsbank

  • Full-text news from media sources in Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
  • The translated and English-language information is obtained from over 1000 broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents.
  • The list of sources included in Global Newsbank is available at http://infoweb7.newsbank.com/sources/GNOL.pdf

ISI Emerging Markets

  • Full-text news and publications from media sources in more than 40 emerging markets.
  • "Emerging markets" refers to recently industrialized countries that have a stock market.
  • Begin by choosing a country.
    • The country home page is the "News" page. Scroll down for the "News by Category" menu on the right-hand side.
    • Click on the "Sources" tab to view all publications for that country. Sources include newswires and agencies, newspapers, magazines, and internet publications and online newsgroups.

LexisNexis Academic News Sources

  • Full-text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world (many same day of publication), newspaper archives, more than 300 magazines and journals, over 600 newsletters, broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, political transcripts, nearly 300 individual college/university papers, wire services (updated several times a day), and Non-English language news sources available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, including both newspapers and magazines.
  • LexisNexis News is not the best source for news from international sources. It is the best source for U.S. news, including U.S. coverage of world news.
  • To find coverage of world news, go to the "Guided News" search form and select the "World News" category. Since the content in LexisNexis Academic is not separated by country of origin, the search will retrieve results from both U.S. and international sources.

World News Connection

  • Full-text news from media sources in The Americas, Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, East Europe, Near East & South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West Europe.
  • The translated and English-language information is obtained from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
  • New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, this information is available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.
  • WNC is the foreign news service of the United States government. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government agency, provides the material to be included in WNC to the National Technical Information Service.
  • The list of sources included in WNC is available at http://wnc.fedworld.gov/sources.html

News sources on the World Wide Web

see also

Selected IGO news sources on the Web:

For a complete list of IGO web pages, see the "Links to Intergovernmental Organizations" page at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

 Part 3: books, articles and Web sites about global journalism
 

Search NUcat to find books and periodicals

Please follow the guidelines suggested in Searching NUcat for Books on Global Journalismpdf. file

Recommended sources:

Gudykunst, William B. and Bella Moody, eds. Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2002. Call number: Main Reference 302.2 H236, (1989 edition in Main Stacks).

Islam, Roumeen, Simeon Djankov, and Caralee McLiesh, eds. The Right to Tell: the Role of Mass Media in Economic Development. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002. Call number: Gov Info 338.9 R573

Search indexes to find articles about global journalism

These resources are available on NUnet. Members of the Northwestern community using computers not on NUnet must enable proxy access.

Academic Search Elite

  • Academic Search Elite provides indexing and abstracts for 2,900 journals. Full-text is available for 1,850 of these publications, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ASE covers the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and medical studies.
  • ASE uses Library of Congress subject headings, so you may follow the guidelines suggested in Searching NUcat for Books on Global Journalismpdf. file

      To browse by "journalism" as a subject, and subjects related to journalism:
    1. ASE opens to "Basic Search" by keyword. Click on the green "Subjects" button.
    2. In the "Browse for" textbox, type "journalism."
    3. ASE retrieves a list of all instances of journalism used as a subject. Under the first result, which is "journalism," click on "see also, related terms."

ComAbstracts

  • The ComAbstracts database is devoted to communications, so searches yield many worthwhile articles. However, the interface can be cumbersome.
  • Researchers may search ComAbstracts by keyword, or browse by keyword.
    To browse by keyword:
  1. From the ComAbstracts home page, click on "Search using subject-relevant menus of prepared keywords."
  2. The "Keyword Assisted Searches" page is an alphabetical list of groups of keywords.
    • To find articles related to global journalism, click on "Context of intercultural/international relations."
    • To find articles about journalism in a particular place, click on "Geographical terms."
  3. Choose one keyword from the list, and click the "submit" button.
  4. Find the article in Northwestern University Library
    • To find a print copy in the library, search for the journal title in NUcat.
    • To find full-text access in on-line databases, search for the journal title in the Electronic Resources catalog.
      1. Use an advanced search.
      2. Search for the title as a phrase
      3. At the drop-down menu labeled "Within" choose "title."
      4. Under the heading "Limit Results," choose "E-journals" from the drop-down menu labeled "type".

Communication Abstracts

  • Communication Abstracts is a bimonthy journal that summarizes books and articles.
  • Main Reference 001.5 C7341. Vol. 1 (1979) - current issue

FirstSearch databases: HumanitiesAbs and WilsonSelectPlus

  • HumanitiesAbs covers journalism as a subject. It indexes over 465 sources, some are full-text.
    • Combine keywords and subjects as search terms.
    • Search "global" or "international" as a keyword.
    • Some suggested subjects: journalism, journalism-international relations, journalism-philosophy, mass media industry, or mass media-international aspects.
    • Also search journalism and the name of a country as a subject.
  • WilsonSelectPlus covers broadcasting, international trends and telecommunication as subjects. It indexes over 1400 sources, some are full-text.
    • As with HumanitiesAbs, combine keywords and subjects as search terms.
    • Search "global" or "international" as a keyword.
    • Some suggested subjects: international broadcasting, radio broadcasting industry-international aspects, telecommunication-international aspects, television and politics-international aspects, television broadcasting industry-international aspects, television programs-news
    • Also add the name of a country to the search terms.
  • Because these databases are products of the same corporation, researchers may perform the same search in both databases without retyping the search terms.
    1. Perform the search in one database (e.g. HumanitiesAbs) and read through the results.
    2. From a results page, titled "List of Records," look at the top left of the screen. Find the heading "Databases."
    3. Click on "List All" under the heading "Databases."
    4. From the list, click on the title of the database you want to use (e.g. WilsonSelectPlus).
    5. In the new database, the search terms are already in the text boxes. Click on the "search" button.

Web sites about global journalism

Web sites of journalism organizations

IGO Web sites about journalism


 Part 4: statistics of international communication and information
 
These resources are available on NUnet. Members of the Northwestern community using computers not on NUnet must enable proxy access.

LexisNexis Statistical

  • LexisNexis Statistical is the gateway to the Index to International Statistics (IIS), which is an index to approximately 2,000 titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations. It is product of Congressional Information Service, Inc.
  • The full-text of the sources indexed by IIS, from 1995 to the present, are in microfiche in the Government Publications and Maps Department. IIS fiche is filed by record number. For example, Record Number: IIS 2001 3000-D606.
    1. Click on "Search abstracts"
    2. Try several keywords and subject headings. Click on "subject list," to the right of the search box, and use the list to browse and search subjects.
    3. In LexisNexis Statistical, the subject "journalism" applies only to U.S. state and private sources. It is not useful in searching for global journalism topics.
    4. Some suggested subjects: audiovisual services and equipment (this term only applies to international sources, not U.S.), information systems and industries (this term only applies to international sources, not U.S.), mass media, newspapers, periodicals, political broadcasting, public broadcasting, radio, and television.
    5. Use country names as keywords or check "by country" under "Narrow your search by these breakdowns."

United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)

  • The UNCDB provides access to more than 350 statistical series, from 30 international sources, for 608 countries and areas.
  • The date coverage varies for each statistical series and country.
  • The 20 statistical series grouped in the topic "Communication and culture" include book production, cellular phones, cinema attendance, internet users, newspaper circulation, personal computers, telephone lines and television receivers.
  • To download the series in "Communication and culture," please follow the instructions in the guide "Browse data grouped by topic or source, build tables and save data in 'Advanced Data Selection'" pdf. file

World Development Indicators (WDI)

  • Use WDI to find statistics like the number of television sets, the number of daily newspapers, or the number of internet users in a country.
  • WDI is published by the World Bank. It contains over 900 indicators for " 152 economies with populations of more than 1 million, as well as for Taiwan, China, in selected tables. Table 1.6 presents selected indicators for 56 other economies—small economies with populations between 30,000 and 1 million and smaller economies if they are members of the World Bank." It is available as both a book and a networked CD-ROM. The call number for the book is Gov Info Reference 330.05 W9721.
  • Two tables contain statistics relevant to global journalism. They are Chapter 5, States and Markets: Table 5.9 "Power and Communications" and Table 5.10 "The Information Age."
  • For a list of the indicators in these tables, please see http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdi2006/contents/Section5.htm.
  • For more information, please see the World Bank's WDI web site at http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdi2006/contents/index2.htm

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