1. 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.
2. Between the Lines
   How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
3. Blindspots in The News
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
4. Allan Bonner Communications Management Inc.
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. 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.
6. CNSP Review 1974-75; Canada in an International Context
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1976
   An analysis of developments in Canadian society based on newspaper coverage.
7. 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.
8. Creeping contradictions
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   News tidbits.
9. Daily news, eternal stories (book review)
   Review of Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2002
   
10. Dean's Digital World: The reporter's friend
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    
11. Don't be a Time Bandit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    Don't waste journalists' time.
12. 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
13. 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.
14. Getting the Whole Story
    Reporting and Writing the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
15. A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
16. Hidden Agendas: How Journalists Influence the News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A right-wing critique of the theory that media owners determine the nature of news coverage. Instead, the authors contend that journalists have the most influence over news coverage, and that journalists tend to be on the left.
17. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
18. HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
    Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
19. IFJ Calls on Unions to Confront Crisis of Gender Bias in the News
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)calls for a new debate in newsrooms over reporting gender issues and gave its backing to a global campaign to combat sexist reporting.
20. 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.
21. International Multimedia News Lab Launched in Prague
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Representatives of World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and PPF Group have launched the International Multimedia News Lab in Prague. The training and educational centre, combined with the editorial house is called FUTUROOM - newsroom of the future.
22. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
23. 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.
24. Iraq: News website latest target in governmentâ##s legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
25. 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.
26. 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."
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. News Release Distribution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Sources media release distribution service.
30. The Newsmongers
    How The Media Distort the Political News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
31. Newspeak in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
32. 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.
33. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
34. 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.
35. The Sources HotLink
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
36. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. Tracking the News that Wasn#t
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
40. Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    
41. Understanding the News Business
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    
42. Watching the News
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2000
    Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
43. What Does a Reporter Want?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    What does a reporter what when they interview you?
44. 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.
45. Wizards of Media Oz
    Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    This book is culled from the recent work of Norman Solomon, author of a syndicated "Media Beat" column and Jeff Cohen, founder of media watch-dog Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
46. 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.
47. 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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