This Library Guide will acquaint you with some sources of information concerning journalism and the mass media.  
You will find other sources both here and at other district libraries by using the Online Catalog and these subject headings:

journalism; reporters and reporting; newspapers; mass media; newspaper reading; investigative reporting; photojournalism; journalism and literature; journalism, commercial; reportage; newspaper publishing; newspaper layout and typography; newspapers-handbooks, manuals, etc.

Books :: Videos :: Databases  :: Websites

SELECTED BOOKS

Asking Questions: The Art of the Media Interview
PN 4784 .I6 M35 1986

The Business Press Editor
PN 4784 .C7 G78 1988

Community Journalism: The Personal Approach
PN 4784.C73 L28 1995

Copyediting: A Practical Guide
PN 162 .J8 1990

The Craft of Interviewing
  PN 4784 .I6 B67 1977

Creative Interviewing: The Writer's Guide to Gathering Information by Asking Questions       
[CAREER] PN 4783 .I6 M4 1997

Eyes on the News
Z 258 .G37 1991

For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids
PN 4888 .T3   B5 1992

From Fact to Fiction: Journalism & Imaginative Writing in America
PS 374 .J68 F5 1985

Global Journalism: Survey of International Communication
PN 4775 .G56 1991

A History of News: From the Drum to the Satellite
PN 4731 .S686 1988

Making Local News
PN 4749 .K35 1991

Mass Media: Opposing Viewpoints
[SPECIAL] P 90 .M2926 1999

The Media Elite
  P 92 .U5 L46 1990

The Muckraker's Manual: Handbook for Investigative Reporters
PN 4781 .H345 1984

Muckraking: Past, Present, and Future
E 743 M82

The News Business
PN 4775 .C48 1984

News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media
PN 4781 .I78 1994

Newsthinking: The Secret of Great Newswriting
PN 4781 B26

Opportunities in Journalism Careers
[CAREER] PN 4797 .F48 1993

The Pulitzer Prizes
PN 4722 .P84

Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story
PN 4726 .R34 1983

Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach
HM 51 .B176 1987

Watch Your Language: A Lively Informal Guide to Better Writing, Emanating from the News Room of the New York Times
PE 1460 B4632

The White Press and Black America
PN 4882.5 .M38 1986

Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing
PN 4784 .C65 R66 1991

SELECTED VIDEOS

Countdown
T 15 .C65 1980

Extra! Extra! See All About It
PN 4776 .E98 1991

Freedom of the Press
PN 4731 .M38 1992

George Plimpton
PS 3566 .L5 Z75 1987

The Media and Human Rights
PN 4751 .M44 1986

News Writing
PN 4781 .N49 1995

Newspaper Wars:   End of an Era?
PN 4775 .N49 1989

The Numbers Game
PN 4784 .C7 N86 1982

The Public Mind:   Image and Reality in America
HN 90 .P8 P83 1989

So You Want to Be President
E 879 .S64 1984

Tom Wolfe
PS 3573 .O526 Z8 1987

The Wall Street Journal   How to Read Between the Lines
HG 4910 .W25 1989

DATABASES  

All accessible via our web page http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/databases/resources.html

Arizona Republic
This database gives the fulltext of articles from the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Business Gazette .

Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
This database gives citations and some fulltext for articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals.  

MasterFILE Premier
This database also gives citations and fulltext for articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals.

National Newspapers 5
Coverage of 5 major newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

In addition to looking for current news articles in the newspaper databases, some appropriate subject headings you may want to try are: journalism; crime and the press; editorials; foreign news; freedom of the press; journalists; news; newspaper publishing; newspapers; periodical publishing; periodicals; police and the press; press; reporters and reporting.

SELECTED WEBSITES

You can find more web sites by using search engines.
  Be sure to ask a librarian if you need any help.