Research Guides: Communication: Links

Online Portals

Communication Studies
Mashable
"Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content"
Media Smarts: Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy

Ad*Access
Over 7,000 American and Canadian advertisments in five product areas - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
AdViews
Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.
BC Stats
Central statistical agency for British Columbia. Its mandate is to produce and interpret statistical information relating to all facets of life in British Columbia, including the demographic, social and economic conditions of the province and its population.
Media History Digital Library
More than a million digitized pages of text and images from media trade papers and fan magazines. Search using the "Collections Gateway" in the right sidebar.
Social Media Glossary

Canadian Association of Journalists
Columbia Journalism Review
DocumentCloud
A source for primary documents submitted to the service by journalists
Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News
Guide to privacy for journalists and their sources
Journalism, 'Fake News" and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism and Education (free download from UNESCO, 2018)
Journalist's Resource
A great guide to doing journalism well. Includes Tip Sheets on various journalistic activities, and guides to using information well, including, among many others, Research strategy guide for finding quality, credible sources (research process in a nutshell – written by a librarian, of course); Academic research and studies: How they work and why journalists should care (a “primer” on the site’s basic goals, a discussion on scholarly works & how to use them; for more in-depth discussion see next article); and Guide to critical thinking, research, data and theory: Overview for journalists (“Interpreting academic studies: A primer for media”).
Journalist's Toolbox
Blog from the Society of Professional Journalists
NiemanLab
Outriders.Network
"Over 800 interactive reporting examples"
Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media (journalism.org)
Poynter Institute
Reporters without Borders