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Journalism History
Dead American Journalism Idols
JoMC 242: Dr. Friedman
  School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 
PARK LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
Books, Newspapers, Journals, Films
SERIALS  & PERIODICALS BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Books & Serials
ARCHIVES & MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
(full text)
HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS (microfilm)
WEB SITES MEDIA TIMELINES DATABASES
ONLINE CATALOGS SEARCH ENGINES

RESEARCH RESOURCES

LITERATURE REVIEWS
(citation styles)
SCHOLARLY INTEGRITY FIND PRIMARY SOURCES [Check this guide:  Pursuing Primary Sources]

SUGGESTED JOURNALISTS:

Don Bolles                              Ivy Lee                        Red Smith

Nellie Bly                                Ida B. Wells                Benjamin Day

                                               Horace Greeley           Elias Boudinot

Edward R. Murrow                Joseph Pulitzer            William R. Hearst

Cissy Patterson                       Ida Tarbell                   Ernie Pyle

Lee Miller                                George Polk                Katherine Anne Porter

Lincoln Steffens                     Benjamin Franklin       John Peter Zenger

Jacob Riis                                George Seldes             I.F. Stone

James Agee                             Walker Evans              Dickey Chapelle

Dorothea Lange                      Weegee                       Margaret Bourke-White

Mary Church Terrell                Eric Sevareid               May Craig

Albert Lasker                          P. T. Barnum               James Walter Thompson

Margaret Fuller                       Frederick Douglass     Ray Stannard Baker

H.L. Mencken                         Louisa Knapp              Upton Sinclair

Philip Graham                         James Franklin            Ernest Hemingway

  • Don Bolles (investigative reporter; note that there are other people with this same name.) [Check following sources as a beginning search:]
  • * UNC Online Catalog [Select "LC Subject" -- enter Bolles, Don
    * Google Scholar  [enter Don Bolles]
    * Communication & Mass Media Complete  [enter Don Bolles]
    * InfoTrac Web (Expanded Academic ASAP) [Select "Person Named" -- enter Don Bolles]
    * Newsbank (America's Newspapers; only in Park Library Computer Lab) [Select "Lead/First Paragraph -- enter Don Bolles]
    * Questia [enter Don Bolles]
    * NICAR/IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors) [enter Don Bolles; enter Arizona Project]
    * The Arizona Project (book in UL
    PN4897.A724 W4)
    * The Arizona Project (reprint of newspaper series is in Park Library)
    * Check Park Library's specialized reports; consult with Park Librarian
    * Also run Don Bolles' name through "Research Resources" listed below.
     
  • Edward R. Murrow (news broadcaster, 1908 - 1965)
     
  • Charles Kuralt (CBS correspondent, 1994 - 1997)
       * UNC-CH Southern Historical Collection [Note: example of manuscript collection]

       * Kuralt's videos of "On the Road"
       * UNC-CH online catalog -- search by author, "Kuralt, Charles"
     
  • Ida B. Wells (African-American publisher/journalist, and civil rights activist, 1862- 1931)
     
  • John Peter Zenger (colonial printer, publisher, journalist 1697 - 1746)
     
  • I. F. Stone (investigative reporter, 1907 - 1989)
    * UNC Online Catalog (keyword search) Stone, I. F.
    *
    I. F. Stone Weekly [Note: check Park Library's video collection,
        call # AV 73001 1973 Beta format]
    * Wikipedia (search I. F. Stone) [Note: click on the "Cite this article" link in right hand column on the screen.
     
  • Ida Tarbell ("muckraker", 1857 - 1944)
     
  • George Polk (investigative reporter for CBS, 1913 - 1948)
     
  • George Seldes (investigative reporter and media critic, 1890 - 1995)
     
  • [Note also the following statement from Wikipedia:
    "Most teachers and professionals do not consider encyclopedias citable reference material for most purposes. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, and as a starting point for further research, but not as a final source for important facts. As with any community-built reference, there is a possibility for error in Wikipedia's content — please check your facts against multiple sources and read our disclaimers for more information."]

RESEARCH RESOURCES:

Journalists of the United States [PN4871 .D68 1991]
"Biographical sketches of print and broadcast news shapers from the late 17th century to the present."

Who Was Who in Journalism, 1925 - 1928
[PN4871 .W65] [Note: this book is not in UNC-CH campus libraries; it is available from East Carolina University Libraries via Interlibrary Loan.]
Brief biographical and professional information.

American Newspaper Journalists [PS221 .D52]
In The Dictionary of Literary Biography Series; [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call # JH-bio. A512, 1985.]

1690-1872, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 43
1873-1900, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 23
1901-1925, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 25
1926-1950, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 29

American Magazine Journalists [PS221 .D52]
In The Dictionary of Literary Biography Series; [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call # SPE-alu.R573.]

1741-1850, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 73
1850-1900, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 49
1900-1960, First Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 91
1900-1960, Second Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 137

American Newspaper Publishers, 1950-1990 
[PS221 .D52]
In The Dictionary of Literary Biography Series; [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call
# JH-bio .S512, 1993.]

Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists. 1995. PN4871.B57 1995

Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism. 1989 [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call # REF-bio.B615 1989]

The Ad Men ad Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising. 1994 [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call  REF-bio.A190 1994]

Political Commentators in the United States in the 20th Century: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. P95.82.U6 1997

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists [PN4871 .T34 1986]
Greatest emphasis on editors, publishers, photographers, bureau chiefs, commentators and cartoonists of the post-WW II period.

Journalistic Advocates and Muckrakers: Three Centuries of Crusading Writers. 1996 PN4820.A66 1996. [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call # REF-dicX .A648 1996.]

Journalist Biographies Master Index. 1979 [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call  # REF-bio.J86 1979]

Guide to Sources in American Journalism History. [Note: check Park Library's book collection, call # REF-bib.C356 1989]

NEWSPAPERS IN THE UNC-CH LIBRARIES
and SOURCES FOR RESEARCH
[Note: the database, Proquest's Historical Newspapers, is NOT available on this campus. If students seek journalists' articles, photos, etc., we will need to request Interlibrary Loan of microfilm from other libraries. Check with Park Librarian about these ILL requests. Listed below are a few U.S. newspaper or magazine titles on microfilm.]

TIME MAGAZINE ARCHIVES (1923 - 2006)

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (microfilm from 1881-2001 in Davis Library [Note: Digitized 1881-2001 but ssues after 1929 are being added as they are digitized. The Atlanta Constitution changed its name to the Daily Constitution between 1876-1881 after which it reverted back to the Atlanta Constitution.]

CHICAGO TRIBUNE (on microfilm from 1963 - in Davis Library)

LOS ANGELES TIMES (on microfilm from 1886 - in Davis Library)

WASHINGTON POST [Note: 1877-1954; 1954-1973; 1974 - on microfilm in Davis Library]

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Chronicling America -- Historical American Newspapers (bibliographic and digital/searchable -- for 1900-1910 only)

LIBRARY RESEARCH: FINDING PRIMARY RESOURCES (Includes descriptions of "primary sources" and "secondary sources" as well as suggested search strategies associated with online catalogs and electronic databases. Note: this web site is from the University of California-Berkeley.) UNC-CH tutorial on finding primary source documents: http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/hum/primary.html

PARK LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

  • Books
  • Newspapers [Note: See also other UNC-CH newspaper collections http://www.lib.unc.edu/newspapers.html ]
  • Serials & Journals [Note: Search for journal titles in the UNC-CH Online Catalog http://www.lib.unc.edu ]
  • Films & Videos [Note: Semonche's favorite film about journalists is a 1948 documentary-style drama titled, "Call Northside 777."  Park Library call # AV-ff 48001 1948 DVD. Actor Jimmy Stewart plays the role of a Chicago Times reporter investigating a man believed to be innocently imprisoned -- by his mother. In some respects it seems to be the forerunner of the latter-day Innocence Projects.]

SERIALS and PERIODICALS: [Available in Park Library and in Davis Library.]

  • American Journalism
  • Communication Research
  • The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
  • International Journal of Public Opinion Research
  • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Communication
  • Journal of Popular Culture
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  • Journalism History
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs
  • Mass Communication & Society
  • Media History Monographs
  • Media Psychology
  • Newspaper Research Journal
  • Problems of Journalism: Proceedings of the American Society of Newspaper Editors [Note: title changed in later years to ASNE: Proceedings of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.]
  • [Note: check with Park Librarian for other journal titles.]

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books & Serials

  • From Headline Hunter to Superman: a journalism filmography, 1997 (In Park Library Call # FLM-flg .N463 1997)
  • Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature. By Jo A. Cates. Third Edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2004. (In Park Library)
  • [Note: to find other books about journalism biography in our Park Library, students may search the UNC Online catalog using the Park Library call numbers for journalism biography: JH-bio or consult with Park Librarian, Barbara Semonche.]

ARCHIVES and MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

ONLINE CATALOGS

DATABASES [Available via UNC-CH electronic resources and selected other sources]

  • AEJMC Conference Papers Searchable Archives
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (Go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ and select "C." Scroll to Communication & Mass Media Complete. Click on it and proceed with your search.)
  • JSTOR
  • UNC-CH Electronic Indexes & Abstracts (Go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/  click on "Subjects" pop-down box; browse the list of subjects; highlight you selection, e.g., "History," then click on the "select" key. You will discover 61 databases for researching historical topics.)
  • UNC-CH Online Catalog: Documentaries (Go to http://www.lib.unc.edu/ and search using subject headings for "documentary films," or "documentary television programs," etc.)
  • Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
    Early American Newspapers includes over 400 historic newspapers and features cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages of fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection -- based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" -- offers an unprecedented look back into the extraordinary history of the United States -- the story of its people, ideals, commerce, and everyday life.

SEARCH ENGINES

WEB SITES

LITERATURE REVIEWS

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