JOURNALISM RESEARCH

Arbitron Radio Ratings and Media Research Information
http://www.arbitron.com
Market ranks, station profiles, data explained.

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
http://www.beaweb.org/publications.html
Broadcast Education Association has online topical and author index.

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
http://www.aejmc.org/pubs/
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication has online index and some full text articles.

Lear Center Local News Archive
http://learcenter.org/html/projects/?&cm=news
Campaign stories from local TV and networks (2004).

Local TV News Media Project
http://www.localtvnews.org/index.jsp
Searchable database of over 10,600 individually digitized local television news stories

Media Tenor
http://www.mediatenor.com/
European media analysis company, compares US and world coverage.

National Association of Broadcasters
http://www.nab.org/Research/
NAB research sorted by topic.

Nielsen Media Research
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/
Ratings company lists sweeps dates, explains ratings systems.

Pew Center for People and the Press
http://www.people-press.org/
Public opinion research on journalism issues.

RTVJ
http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/rtvj-aej/
The broadcast division of the association of journalism educators.

Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
Vanderbilt archive has online summary of network newscasts.

TVB
http://www.tvb.org/nav/build_frameset.asp?url=/rcentral/index.asp
Television Bureau of Advertising "research central" tracks viewership and trends.