ONLINE RESOURCES

Al's Morning Meeting (Poynter Online)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2
Story ideas and links for journalists.

B Roll Online
http://www.b-roll.net/
B Roll Online is devoted to TV news photography.

BEA: The Broadcast Education Association
http://www.beaweb.org/
BEA is a professional development organization for academics and professionals involved in electronic media.

Current Online
http://www.current.org/
This web service reports on public TV and public radio.

Encyclopedia of Television 
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/
Museum of Broadcast Communications, 1997.

Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism (CPB)
http://www.cpb.org/stations/radioethicsguide/

European Broadcasting Union
http://www.ebu.ch/en/

FCC: Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/
This website includes news and announcements from the FCC.

Historical Periods in Television Technology (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/

Industry Leaders: 50 Years of Murrow (RTNDA)
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/50-years-of-murrow990.php?id=990

Investigative Reporters and Editors
http://www.ire.org/

Library of American Broadcasting
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/
The library is located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Poynter Online's "Leading Lines" column
http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=34
Coaching and management advice from Poynter's leadership faculty.

Alan, Jeff and James Martin Lane.
Anchoring America: The Changing Face of Network News.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2003.

Albarran, Alan B. and Gregory G. Pitts.
The Radio Broadcasting Industry.
Boston: MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Allen, Craig M. News is People: The Rise of Local TV News
and the Fall of News from New York.
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

Arya, Bob. Thirty Seconds to Air.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

Attkisson, Sharyl and Don Rodney Vaughan.
Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News.
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.

Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

----. The Golden Web:
The History of Broadcasting in the United States 1933-1953.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

----. The Image Empire:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Beadle, Mary and Michael D. Murry. Indelible Images:
Women of Local Television.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

Beaman, Jim. Interviewing for Radio.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Bliss, Edward and James L. Hoyt.
Writing News for Broadcast.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Block, Mervin. Broadcast Newswriting:
The RTNDA Reference Guide.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1994.

----. Writing Broadcast News.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1997.

Block, Mervin and Joe Durso, Jr.
Writing News for TV and Radio.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.

Boyd, Andrew. Broadcast Journalism:
Techniques of Radio and TV News. 5th ed.
Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2001.

Brinkley, Joel. Defining Vision:
The Battle for the Future of Television.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.

Brown, James and Quaal Ward.
Radio-Television-Cable Management.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1998.

Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Carr, Forrest, Suzanne Huffman, and C.A. Tuggle.
Broadcast News Handbook.
Boston: MA: McGraw Hill, 2001.

Carroll, Victoria. Writing News for Television.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.

Chantler, Paul and Peter Stewart. Local Radio Journalism.
Boston: Focal Press, 2003.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys:
Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Cohler, David Keith. Broadcast Newswriting.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Cremer, Charles, et al. ENG: Television News.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life.
New York: Knopf, 1996.

Cronley, Connie. Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off:
Essays from Public Radio.
New York: Hawk Publishing, 2000.

Crouse, Chuck. Reporting for Radio.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1998.

Day, James. The Vanishing Vision:
The Inside Story of Public Television.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Donald, Ralph and Thomas Spann.
Fundamentals of Television Production.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Dotson, Bob and Matt Lauer. Make It Memorable:
Writing and Packaging TV News With Style.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2000.

Douglas, George H. The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.

Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1987.

Duncan, Jacci, ed. Making Waves:
the 50 Greatest Women in Radio and Television
as Selected by American Women in Radio and Television.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2001.

Edwards, Bob. Edward R. Murrow
and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism.
Hoboken, NJ: Willey, 2004.

Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America:
A Political History.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Fensch, Thomas. Television News Anchors.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.

Fleming, Carol. The Radio Handbook.
New York: Routledge, 2002.

Foote, Joe S., ed. Live From the Trenches:
The Changing Role of the Television News Correspondent.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Frank, Reuven. Out of Thin Air:
The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Freedman, Wayne. It Takes More Than Good Looks
To Succeed at TV News Reporting.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.

Fry, Katherine. Constructing the Heartland:
Television News and Natural Disaster.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2003.

Geisler, Jill. News Leadership at the Head of the Class.
Washington, DC: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, 2005.

Gilbert, Allison, ed. Covering Catastrophe:
Broadcast Journalists Report September 11.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.

Goldberg, Robert. Anchors:
Brokaw, Jennings, Rather and the Evening News.
Secauscus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1990.

Goldenson, Leonard H. Beating the Odds:
The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC.
New York: Scribners, Maxwell Macmillan, 1991.

Gunther, Marc. The House that Roone Built:
the Inside Story of ABC News.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

Halper, Donna L. Invisible Stars:
A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Head, Sydney W. and Christopher H. Sterling.
Broadcasting in America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Hewitt, John. Airwords:
Writing for Broadcast News. 3rd edition.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Company, 2002.

Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story:
Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television.
New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

Hilliard, Robert L. and Michael C. Keith.
The Broadcast Century and Beyond.
Boston: Focal Press, 2001.

Hilmes, Michele. Only Connect:
A Cultural History Of Broadcasting in the United States.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.

Hosley, David H. and Gayle K. Yamada. Hard News:
Women in Broadcast Journalism.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Howard, Herbert H., Michael S. Kievman and Barbara A. Moore.
Radio, TV, and Cable Programming. 2nd ed.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

Kerbel, Natthew. If it Bleeds, It Leads:
An Anatomy of Television News.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

Kisseloff, Jeff. The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961.
New York: Viking, 1995.

Lindekugel, D. M. Shooters:
TV News Photographers and Their Work.
New York: Praeger, 1994.

Lindner, Ken. Broadcasting Realities.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.

Looker, Tom. The Sound and the Story: NPR and the Art of Radio.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Marlane, Judith. Women in Television News Revisited.
Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 1999.

Matthews, Garret, ed. Past Deadlines, Past Lives:
News, Views, and Second Thoughts.
Tampa, FL: Albion Press, 2001.

Matusow, Barbara. The Evening Stars:
The Making of the Network News Anchor.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Murray, Michael D. Encyclopedia of Television News.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999.

Murray, Michael D. and Donald G. Godfrey, eds.
Television in America:
Local Station History from Across the Nation.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.

O'Dell, Cary. Women Pioneers in Television:
Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997.

Papper, Robert A. Broadcast News Writing Stylebook.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2002.

Pease, Edward C. and Everette E. Dennis, eds.
Radio: The Forgotten Medium.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Persico, Joseph E. Edward R. Murrow: An American Original.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Schieffer, Bob. Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from 
the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast. 
New York: Simon & Schuster,  2004.

Shook, Frederick. Television Newswriting:
Captivating an Audience.
White Plains, NY: Longman, 1994.

Siegel, Robert, ed. The NPR Interviews, 1995.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.

----. The NPR Interviews, 1996.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Smith, Anthony. Television: An International History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Smith, Dow. Power Producer. 3rd edition.
Washington, DC: RTNDA, 2002.

Sperber, A.M. Murrow: His Life and Times.
New York: Freundlich Books, 1986.

Walker, James R. and Douglas A. Ferguson.
The Broadcast Television Industry.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Yorke, Ivor. Television News. 4th edition.
Boston: Focal Press, 2000.