CMJ 256 News Reporting: Home
Useful resources
Department Links
-
School of Communicationsinfo from the School of Communications
Welcome!
This guide's purpose is to help Multimedia Journalism students taking 256 News Reporting
- writing & reporting -- from basic information-gathering & news presentation -- to professional explanatory, in-depth, technical, or investigative journalism in digital & print platforms
- storytelling
- editing
- history, theory, practice, & criticism
-
Congress TweetsVisualized data from the Pudding on the topics that members of Congress discuss.
-
Crisis in Democracy: Renewing Trust in AmericaKnight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy's 2019 report questions democracy, epistemology, media, technology, and citizenship as interdependent issues.
-
"The Toxins We Carry" Columbia Journalism Reviewby Whitney Phillips. "Disinformation is polluting our media environment. Facts won’t save us. ... How might what I do here affect what happens over there?"
Library Basics
-
Library Search Tutorial 2019Using the "Find articles, books, & more" box like a pro
-
How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
-
Building a Search StrategyThis tutorial explains how to best develop a search strategy before searching the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any catalog, database, or internet search engine.
-
Requesting books, journals in print form, and DVDs
While many articles & ebooks are online, some are in the robotic book retrieval system (official name = Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor. -
Practice good information hygiene: Sanitize before you share
Just adopt the four quick and easy steps below to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. If we sanitize the process around our information habits, we can prevent misleading and false content — some of which is hazardous to our health — from being widely shared and potentially doing harm.
Subject Guide
Kim Ranger
Contact:
Online service only during COVID-19: M-F 9:00-4:00 or by appointment. After we make an appointment, I will send a Google Meeting from rangerk@mail.gvsu.edu
240 Mary Idema Pew Library, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401
Hablo español
240 Mary Idema Pew Library, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401
Hablo español
1-616-331-2633
Website
Subjects:
Communications, Multimedia Journalism
- Last Updated: Jun 15, 2020 4:20 PM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/cmj256
