Resources for Further Study

This website provides additional resources for students and teachers using The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Pursuit of News. We hope these will be helpful in researching papers, in preparing class presentations, or simply in learning more about any topic mentioned in the book.

The website is organized on a chapter-by-chapter format that mirrors the book’s table of contents. The lists are intended to help you find the full text of an article or the relevant pages of a book mentioned ina chapter of The Ethical Journalist. The lists also direct you to other information and commentary pertaining to the chapter’s topic, including books and articles that became available after The Ethical Journalist went to press.

For ease in identification, references to research materialmentioned in the book are listed in sans serif type.

Hyperlinks are provided for articles that are readily available to anyone browsing the World Wide Web. We realize that information available on the web today may not be available tomorrow; we intend to test the links from time to time and delete links that have become inoperative.

To access material on the web that is not accessible to the public at large, you will need to use databases made available by your school’s library. This kind of material is marked in our lists as Academic databases orNews databases.All of the databases described here are usually accessible through academic library websites. More detailed descriptions follow.

Academic Databases

Academic databases contain content from scholarly journals. They may or may not include content from trade publications and other sources. Commonly used databases for journalism and communications studies include:

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) (EBSCO Publishing Company)
  • Communication Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific)
  • ProQuest Research Library

News Databases

News databases vary widely in newspapers covered. Some newspapers appear in multiple databases; others appear in only one database.

  • LexisNexis Academic carries national, international, and local newspaper and newsmagazine content. The newspaper content is more extensive than the newsmagazine content.
  • Some libraries have access to Access World News (Newsbank), which has newspaper content for national, international, and local newspapers.