Print Media

Library of Congress. "Printer and Writer." In Benjamin Franklin in His Own Words. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2010.  

Presbyterian Historical Society. "William Bradford (1722-1791)." In Philadelphia Printers in the Era of Benjamin Franklin (fl. 1728-1790). Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Historical Society, n.d.

Books

Chmielewski. Dawn C. and Carolyn Kellogg. "E-book Settlement has Publishing World in Turmoil: The Price-fixing Case Turns Out Well for Amazon but Unsettles Many Others in the Industry." Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2012.

Newspapers

“Newspaper Circulation Volume.” Arlington, VA: Newspaper Association of America, 2012.

North, S. N. D. History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Washington, DC: United States, Census Office, 1884.

Pew Research Center. Project for Excellence in Journalism. The State of the News Media 2012: An Annual Report on American Journalism. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, 2012.

Sound and Images

Movies

U.S. Library of Congress. Early Motion Pictures. 

Radio

U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A Short History of Radio with an Inside Focus on Mobile Radio. [Washington, DC]: FCC, 2003.

Television

Newcomb, Horace, ed. The History of Television, 1^st ed. Chicago, IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Full text essays from the first edition are available via the Museum of Broadcast Communications’ Website.

Tate, Marsha Ann. “Tales of the City: A Saga of Politics and Programming at PBS.”

Whalen, David J. "Communications Satellites: Making the Global Village Possible." S.l.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), last updated November 30, 2010.

Media Ethics

Pew Research Center for the People & The Press. “Further Decline in Credibility Ratings for Most News Organizations.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center for the People & The Press, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2012.

Journalism.org. “Ethics Codes” [Ethics Guidelines for Various News Organizations].  Accessed September 3, 2012.

The Canadian Media Industries

Tate, Marsha Ann. “Behemoth at the Border: U.S. Hegemony and the Broader Issue of Globalization from a Canadian Perspective.” In Alliance Atlantis Communications: The Emergence of a Canadian Contender in the International Media Milieu.

Additional Resources

Mass Communications Pathfinder

Page created by Marsha Ann Tate, Ph.D., September 3, 2012. Last updated July 8, 2017.