ONLINE RESOURCES
Al's Morning Meeting (Poynter Online)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2
Story ideas and links for journalists.
Archive of American Television
http://tvinterviewsarchive.blogspot.com/
search/label/Genre%3A%20News
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.
http://www.lostremote.com/
Broadcast journalism Weblog founded by Cory Bergman.
Media Job Pod
http://www.mediajobpod.org/
"For university students anywhere about to hit the job-hunt trail for broadcast/online news and production jobs. Kent State University.
Mervinblock.com
http://www.mervinblock.com/tips.html
Writing Tips from Mervin Block.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
http://www.museum.tv/
"The MBC examines popular culture and contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television and radio."
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)
http://www.nab.org
National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
http://www.namic.com/
NAMIC welcomes existing and aspiring cable professionals.
NPPA (National Press Photographers Association)
http://www.nppa.org/
NPPA is dedicated to the advancement of photographic journalism.
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2003
Poynter Online, March 2003
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=22553
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2004
Poynter Online, March 2004
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=62291
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2005
Poynter Online, March 2005
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=79970
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2006
Poynter Online, March 2006
http://www.poynterextra.org/NPPA2006/
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2007
Poynter Online, March 2007
http://www.nasites.net/projects/1296/
NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2008
Poynter Online, March 2008
NPPA Code of Ethics
http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/
business_practices/ethics.html
National Public Broadcasting Archives
http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/
News Videographer
http://newsvideographer.com/
For journalists who produce online news video.
NewsLab
http://www.NewsLab.org
NewsLab is a non-profit resource center for television and radio newsrooms, focused on training and research.
Paley Center for Media
http://www.mtr.org
Formerly the Museum of Television and Radio
Poynter Online's Broadcast Resources
http://www.poynteronline.org/subject.asp?id=8
Poynter Online's
"Early TV Anchors: A History of Network Evening News"
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=99440
Poynter Online's "Leading Lines" column
http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=34
Coaching and management advice from Poynter's leadership faculty.
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31904
PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated)
http://www.prndi.org/
PRNDI encourages the professional development and training of public radio journalists.
Radio Pioneers & Core Technologies (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/
RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association)
http://www.rtnda.org/
RTNDA represents local and network news executives in broadcast, cable and other electronic media.
RTNDA -- Edward R. Murrow Awards
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/awards.php?g=67
Shoptalk
http://www.tvspy.com/shoptalk.cfm
Shoptalk is a daily newsletter about the television industry.
Television History - The First 75 Years
http://www.tvhistory.tv
TV Rundown
http://www.tvrundown.com/
The TV Rundown reports on local television news and programming.
TelevisionWeek
http://www.tvweek.com/
Tyndall Report
http://www.tyndallreport.com/
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
The Television News Archive collection is at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
NEWS UNIVERSITY (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
Training for Journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.
Advice for the Newly Named News Director
Instructor: Deborah Potter, 2007.
Covering High-Profile Stories with Byron Pitts: A Poynter/NewsU Conversation
Instructor: Byron Pitts, May 2008.
Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast
Interviewer: Al Tompkins, March 2008
Telling Stories with Sound
Instructor: Andrew DeVigal, 2007.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Darnton, Kate, Kayce Freed Jennings and Lynn Sherr.
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life.
New York: Public Affairs, 2007.
Day, James. The Vanishing Vision:
The Inside Story of Public Television.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Donald, Ralph and Thomas Spann.
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.
Dotson, Bob and Matt Lauer. Make It Memorable:
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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:
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as Selected by American Women in Radio and Television.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2001.
Edwards, Bob. Edward R. Murrow
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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.
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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.
It Won't Be What You Think.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Johnston, Lyle. Good Night Chet: A Biography of Chet Huntley.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Keith, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995.
A Handbook for Writing, Reporting, Shooting, and Editing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway, 2005.
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:
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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.
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New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.
Persico, Joseph E. Edward R. Murrow: An American Original.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Potter, Deborah and Debora Halpern Wenger.
Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.
(See Also: Advancing the Story: The Blog)
Rowe, Jeff. Broadcast News Writing for Professionals.
Oak Park, IL: Marion Street Press, 2005.
Schorr, Daniel. Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism.
New York: Pocket Books, 2001.
Schieffer, Bob. Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from
the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War.
Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006.
Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006.
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.
Silcock, B. William, Don Heider and Mary T. Rogus.
Managing Television News: A Handbook for Ethical and Effective Producing.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Smith, Dow. Power Producer. 3rd edition.
Washington, DC: RTNDA, 2002.
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Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Aim for the Heart.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1997.
Walker, James R. and Douglas A. Ferguson.
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Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
White, Ted. Broadcast News Writing,
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Boston: Focal Press, 2001.
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Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.
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