- Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
- Confessions of a Media Critic
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984
Barrie Zwicker says that with the planet in crisis it isn't time for 'business as usual', least of all in journalism.
- Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
Review of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
- Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- The Form of News
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A history of newspaper design in the USA, the ways of writing, how papers are organized, presentation values of typography, space and pictures, and the impact of changing technology
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- Getting the Whole Story
Reporting and Writing the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
- The News
Inside the Canadian Media
Resource Type: Book
The Zwicker-MacDonald book is a selection of articles published in "Content" in the years between Keith Davey's Senate Committee report and Tom Kent's Royal Commission on Newspapers. The articles are a guide to the best of Canadian reporting in the 1970's. Various articles look at the state of journalism in Canada, the conflict between good investigative reporting and reporting that is no longer a profession but a business. The concluding essay deals with the essentials of what constitutes good journalism-the business of translating facts into news.
- News and Dissent
The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Hackett digs deep into several issues that affect how we hear, read, and see what is reported to us, as well as who and what decide exactly what is it that we hear, read and see.
- News Release Distribution
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Sources media release distribution service.
- Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
- The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Published: 2009
A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
- There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
- Tracking the News that Wasn#t
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
- Understanding the News Business
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
- Watching the News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
- What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
- What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Yesterday's News (Review)
Review of Yesterday's News: Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1999
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