Interested in learning more about media literacy, news evaluation, and education? Use the following databases to search for research articles, books, and news.
Use the following resources to help you in your research, reporting, and writing.
Use the following websites to help fact check your stories. Remember when using other's research and stories as sources to properly attribute credit.
Use the following websites to find federal, state, county, and city information.
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Here are links to other helpful websites and support resources for journalists, educators, and fact-checkers.
Here are a few resources to find stock footage and audio clips. Please remember to check for copyright clearance, creative commons, and permission to post.
Users may also make isolated clips from the videos and save them in a free account available for registration set up within the database.
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Updated daily. A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts that exist in digital form. Includes texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages. Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has archived over 150 billion web pages from 1996 to the current year.
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Updated continually. Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
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Updated daily. Provides a searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), and selected content from PBS and FOX News. Also includes more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001
See Additional Info section for information on requesting loans from the collection.
Note: The Archive offers video streams that are duplications of entire broadcasts. Broadcasts from CNN and NBC can be streamed; broadcasts from all sources, including ABC, CBS, and Fox, can be loaned and downloaded in MP4 format after creating an account and paying a duplication fee ($17 per clip + a $10 processing fee). See Request a Loan from the Collection for more information.
Below are a sampling of professional organizations related to print and broadcast journalism, writing, and reporting. Organizations and associations often have codes of ethics or policies for their members to follow.
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