Guides: JOUR 241 Introduction to News Writing &amp; Editing: Searching Reference & Journal Sources

Required Textbooks

Telling the Story by Don Ranly; George Kennedy; The Missouri Group; Brian S. Brooks; Daryl R. Moen
Call Number: On Reserve
ISBN: 9781457609114
Publication Date: 2012-11-26
In Telling the Story, 5th edition, The Missouri Group provides how-to coverage of the journalistic skills that take advantage of new technologies from blogging to researching online, to using social media and conducting online interviews.
The Associated Press Stylebook: 2022-2024 by Associated Press
Call Number: On Reserve
ISBN: 9781541601659
Publication Date: 2022-07-05
Guide for using AP Style to write and edit with clarity and professionalism, includes AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, word and numeral usage.

Recommended Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Content from CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with other peer-reviewed journals in communication, mass media, and related fields of study.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Access to peer reviewed journals covering Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations; Sociology; Sport, Leisure & Tourism.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. For help on how to use Nexis Uni, visit the research guide.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals.
Archive of American Journalism This link opens in a new window
Articles from major American authors including Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Ambrose Bierce, H.L. Mencken, Theodore Roosevelt, Ray Stannard Baker, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Henry Stanley, Ida Tarbell and Nellie Bly.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provides professionally fact-checked and footnoted reports on the most current and controversial issues of the day.

SimplyAnalytics

SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
SimplyAnalytics is a mapping, analytics, and data visualization application that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing variables. Mapping, analytics, and data visualization application that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing variables. Please note there is a limit of 5 concurrent users - if busy, try later

Online Demographic Resources

Census Business Builder
Interactive maps, charts and reports using select demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau
U.S. Census Quick Facts
QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
Pew Research Center - Social & Demographic Trends
The Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends project studies behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives, including family, community, health, finance, work and leisure.

Reference Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory.
International Encyclopedia of Communication Online This link opens in a new window
Coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.

Scholarly Journals

Contain articles on different aspects of communication. You should search electronic databases and print indexes to find journal citations.

        Communication Monographs. University Park, PA: Speech Communication Association, quarterly.
            Payson Periodicals---1976- .
            Research Library---1994- .

        Communication Quarterly. Buckhannon, WV: Eastern Communication Association.
            Payson Periodicals---1976- .
            Research Library---1994- .

Communication Reports. Salt Lake City, UT: Western States Communication Association.
Payson Periodicals---1995- .

        Communication Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Periodicals Press.
            Payson Periodicals---1984- .
            Research Library---1996- .

        Communication Studies. (formerly: Central States Speech Journal) Waco, TX: Baylor University (changed names in 1989).
            Payson Periodicals---1949-1998.
            Research Library---1996- .

        Communication Theory. New York: International Communication Association.
            Payson Periodicals---1996- .
            Research Library---1992- .

        Human Communication Research. Austin, TX: International Communication Association.
            Payson Periodicals---1974- .
            Research Library---1996- .

        Journal of Communication. Austin, TX: International Communication Association.
            Payson Periodicals---1951- .
            Research Library---1988- .

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