CMJ 256: News Reporting: Home
Useful resources
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Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to help you learn more about multimedia journalism while using information, specifically in CMJ 256 News Reporting by practicing:
- 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.
Each discipline or field of study has different values about types of information and procedures for research, so the resources here will be different from those you might have used in other courses in fields like Writing or Biology.
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Use the step-by-step guide for finding and getting sources!PowerPoint tutorial: click the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
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Congress TweetsVisualized data from the Pudding on the topics that members of Congress discuss.
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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.
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"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
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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Resource MarketThe Resource Market has guide sheets, definitions of academic jargon, and helpful links created by Knowledge Market consultants. Use the search bar or browse using the buttons.
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Focusing a TopicThis video shows different ways of focusing a topic for a research paper.
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Building a Search StrategyVideo explains how to develop a search strategy before using the catalog or databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any database, or search engine.
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How to Find a BookThis video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.
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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.
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Practice Good Information Hygiene: Sanitize before You Share4 quick and easy steps to help stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation: pause, fact check, search, examine original source. From the News Literacy Project
Subject Guide
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- Last Updated: Apr 13, 2021 10:22 AM
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