Multimedia Journalism: Home
Useful resources
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Knowledge Markethelp with writing, research, presentations, visualizing basic data sets and engaging with social media platforms and other digital tech
Department Links
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from MulinBlog: A digital journalism blog
News/Press Releases
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Eurekalertnews service for science, medicine, & technology
Welcome!
This guide's purposes are to help you learn more about multimedia journalism while using information, help you save time and energy, and successfully complete your assignments, especially when doing research for courses in:
- technical production -- both field (using cameras and editing) & studio
- writing & reporting -- from basic information-gathering & news presentation -- to professional explanatory, in-depth, technical, or investigative journalism in digital & print platforms
- storytelling
- editing
- graphics
- 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 CMJ 310!PowerPoint tutorial: click the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
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CMJ 310 (Microsoft Word doc)Use this to guide yourself through your research process.
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CMJ 310 (Google Doc)Use this to guide yourself through your research process.
See also the Advertising & Public Relations, Health Communication, Nursing, Statistics, & other Library Subject guides.
Library Basics
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Bias in Information Sources3 1/2 minute video defines bias in information and how to address it.
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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 StrategyThis short video explains how to develop a search strategy before finding books and media or articles in databases. These concepts are universal and apply to any search.
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Keywords, Search Terms, and Subject HeadingsThis short video demonstrates finding items with keywords and subject terms.
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Databases, journals, & articlesVideo defines each and explains how they fit together
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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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Watch video of the ASRS robot in action.
Some books, DVDs, and journals are in the book retrieval system (Automated Storage Retrieval System or ASRS) behind the Service Desk on the 1st floor. -
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