LibGuides: JOUR 488: Forms of Journalistic Writing (Easter): Library Guides

A Recent Article in The Washington Post

Love-struck hero or creepy harasser? Suddenly we’re seeing our favorite rom-coms in a new light.

Newspapers: Current & Older Editions

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.
The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
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1996-
Full text of articles, not including images.

Las Vegas Sun

Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
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1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
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1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
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1881-2015
Historical California newspaper.

Google News

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Need A Little History Lesson?

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles and books about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
Scope: U.S. and Canada only
Languages: Abstracts of articles in 40 different languages
This index includes almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Books, media reviews, and dissertations are also covered, and approximately 16,000 entries are added each year. The Get Text button links to online full text when available and offers access to UNLV print collections and document delivery options for books and articles not available online.

History.com
Great popular source for history. Click on TOPICS for a wide variety of historical events, people, and more.

Finding Out About People--Biographies

Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
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Images, brief biographies, and links to magazine articles and websites about notable people.
Biography Resource Center provides biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Contains approximately 250,000 biographies and complete articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender, or combine criteria.

Biography.com
Includes over 7,000 biographies.

Entertainment

Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
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1950-1975
Primary sources documenting music and popular culture in the US and Britain, 1950-1975, including manuscripts, video, photos, underground magazines and more.
Part of Americana combined search portal
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.

AmericanRadioHistory.com
Click on Music Magazines tab, then click on Music Industry tab for archives of pop music magazines such as Billboard & Cashbox.
Billboard Magazine
Music Charts, Music News, Artist Photo Gallery and Free Video.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Country Music Hall of Fame
Internet Movie Database
Movie Review Query Engine

Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
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Journal and magazine articles about film and television.

Fashion

Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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- Good for: Researching fashion and culture, including specific garments, accessories or brands.
- Contains: Images and text from Vogue Magazine.
- Dates covered: 1892-present.
Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window
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1910-
Comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), the leading fashion-industry trade paper.

Fashion.net

Style.com
News, trends, street, beauty, culture, fashion shows.
Faith Popcorn's Brain Reserve
Culture pulse, trend bank, etc.

Technology

CNET

CNET is the world's leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how-tos and more.
DigitalTrends.com

"Digital Trends was founded in 2006 with a simple mission: to help readers easily understand how tech affects the way they live."
USAToday.com: Technology and Electronics Reviews
Wirecutter Reviews | A New York Times Company

The Wirecutter and The Sweethome (part of The New York Times Company) are lists of the best gadgets and gear for people who quickly want to know what to get.
PCMag

Technology product reviews, news, prices, etc.
MIT Technology Review

The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology.

Journalism Toolkits

Data & Statistics

UNLV Libraries Data & Statistics

American FactFinder
Create tables or maps and download data from the Census of Population and Housing, Economic Census, or American Community Survey.
Data-Planet : This link opens in a new window

Provides access to the extensive Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data.

Statista
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Statista provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.
Statista includes data on more than 85,000 topics from 18,000 sources. About 20 percent of the total data in Statista comes from sources available free online, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Census, but the data also includes numerous exclusive sources which include industry, marketing, and trade groups. Much of the data is related to marketing, demographic, government and industry information, and is international in scope. Data can be downloaded in JPG, PowerPoint and Excel.
USAFacts.org: USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society.

Sports

The Society of Professional Journalist's Journalist's Toolbox - Sports Resources has a resource page for research on sports. PLEASE NOTE - This is a long listing of links - be sure to scroll down the page to find sections on sports business and specific sports categories - football, basketball, hockey, etc.

Listed below are additional sites providing access to sports statistics, archival news, and sports news reporting.

Public Opinions, Think Tanks, etc.

Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center is a "nonpartisan fact tank" conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research around several broad themes: U.S. politics and policy, use and influence of the media, the role of the internet and technology, Hispanics in the U.S., the role of religion in public life in the U.S. and beyond, social & demographic trends in the U.S., and global attitudes. All data and reports can be browsed by topic, searched by question, and are freely downloadable.
Pew Research Center--Topics
PollingReport.com
"An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion."

Urban Affairs Librarian

Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian

Email Me

Contact:

UNLV Libraries
Lied Library
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Box 457014
Las Vegas, NV 89154-7014
susie.skarl@unlv.edu

702-895-2141

Subjects: Communication Studies, Couple & Family Therapy, Criminal Justice, Crisis & Emergency Management, Government Information, Journalism & Media Studies, Public Administration, Social Work, Urban Studies

JOUR 488: Forms of Journalistic Writing (Easter): Library Guides