Media

This page links to Web sites for media outlets and content closely associated with specific media, with the exceptions of Books and Film. See my News page for sources of news in multiple media.

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Media, generally | E-journals | Magazines and Journals | Newspapers | Radio | Television

Media, generally

• MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Site - Directory of media outlets and critical studies of the media

Web Directories:

• New Pages - Your guide to independent media. A blog is available, too.
• Gebbie Press - Directory of all kinds of media outlets — newspapers, magazines, radio, TV
• Headline Spot
• Kidon Media Link - News sources
• MediaPost - Directory of newspapers, magazines, radio & TV stations, cable, Internet
• NewsDirectory - Newspapers, magazines, television stations, etc.
• NewsLink - Links to newspaper, magazine, and radio/TV Web sites worldwide (formerly American Journalism Review)
• Yahoo: News and Media
• Foreign Language News and Newspapers (MIT Libraries)

Alternatives and Criticism:

• See Alternative News Media, Media Criticism, and Political Research

Books

• See my Books and Libraries page

E-Journals

• HotWired - The Web voice of Wired
• The Morning News - A daily magazine with some great original writing
• Salon
• Slate

Web Directories:

• Electronic Journal Miner - A database of over 7,000 titles (also indexed by subject) (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries)
• New Jour Electronic Journals & Newsletters - Over 10,000 listings
• Scholarly Journals Distributed via the World-Wide Web (U. of Houston)

Open Access Journals:

See also

• Medical Indexes and Journals

These journals are: (1) Free, (2) Scholarly (often peer-reviewed), and often (3) Online only. Also, What is Open Access? by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Livre: Portal to Free Access Journals on the Internet (Brazil Ministry of Science and Technology)
• Open Access Directory - Lists of open-access journals and repositories
• Public Library of Science (PLoS) - Open access journals in biology and medicine, with more to come

Film

• See my Film page

Magazines and Journals

• The Atlantic
• Harpers
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency - Online version of the hardcover quarterly
• Mental Floss - Make yourself a little smarter
• The New Yorker
• Emdashes - If you a) fact check your e-mails, b) already know what an em dash is, or c) love the New Yorker as much as I do, you have to read this blog
• Newsweek
• Time
• U.S. News and World Report



Magazine and Journal Web Directories:

• Publist - A searchable database of periodicals
• E-mail Alerting Services of Major Publishers/Vendors (Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
• Headline Spot: Magazines
• Magatopia - 1,000 magazines with (at least some) free content
• Magazines A to Z
• Metagrid - Directory of magazines by subject (German site, in English)
• NewsDirectory: Magazines by Subject
• Newspapers and Magazines (Internet Public Library)
• Open Directory Project: Magazines and E-zines
• Online Books Page: Serials - List of journals with archives available on the Web

Canada:

• Genuine Canadian Magazines [Magomania.com]

Abbreviations:

• Journal Abbreviation Sources - For each subject, Gerry McKiernan provides one or more sources for looking up journal abbreviations

Magazine Advertising:

• Ad*Access - Advertisements from the period 1911-1955 for beauty and hygiene products, radio, television, transportation, and World War II propaganda in U.S. and Canadian magazines (Duke University)

Newspapers

• New York Times - The nation's leading newspaper (free, but requires registration)
• Christian Science Monitor
• Guardian - The UK's left-leaning daily
• Guardian Newsblog
• International Herald Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Washington Post

Newspaper Web Directories:

• Newseum: Today's Front Pages - See image files of the front pages of newspapers from around the world. Fascinating!
• World Newspapers and Magazines - International directory of English-language sites
• Home Town News - Links to thousands of U.S. daily and weekly newspapers
• Newslink: Newspapers - International
• NewspaperIndex - International
• Newspapers and Magazines (Internet Public Library)
• Newspapers Online - U.S. and international [newspapers.com]
• NewsVoyager - Large list of U.S., Canadian, and international papers (Newspaper Association of America)
• OnlineNewspapers.com
• Open Directory: Newspapers
• The Paperboy - Newspapers worldwide
• Press Display - Like Newseum, this site makes available actual views of current newspapers (international)
• Yahoo Newspapers
• Metagrid - Directory of newspapers by place (German site, in English)

Directory of Directories:

• Newspaper Directories (LibDex)

Newspaper Archives (Historic Newspapers):

• Chronicling America - Images from selected newspapers and a database of American newspapers back to 1690 (Library of Congress)
• Newspaper Indexes/Archives/Morgues - Sources used often by the Library of Congress or those not on other lists (e.g., libraries' indexes of their local newspapers, which is the only access to some newspapers from pre-electronic times) (LC)
• U.S. News Archives on the Web and International News Archives of the Web (Special Libraries Association, News Division)
• Publications Archives (Researchbuzz)

Awards:

• Pulitzer Prize

Radio

Web Directories:

• Radio Locator (formerly the MIT List)
• Radio Station World
• Virtual Tuner - Internet radio stations

Public Radio:

National Public Radio (NPR)

I was going to make links to the Web pages of all my favorite NPR shows, but I like almost all of them, except "Garry's Cornpone Onion"; when I "hear that old piano," I turn off the radio.

• NPR home page (What's this?)
• People at NPR - Fans will want to check them all out
• Those funny bits on the half hour of "Morning Edition"? They're called the Daily Returns

Local Stations:

• KQED is their San Francisco affiliate
• Jefferson Public Radio serves Southern Oregon and Northern California. Sure, they broadcast "All Things Considered" and some of the other NPR shows, but they're a real community radio station serving up a homegrown mix of local news and eclectic music ("rhythm and news").

Public Radio, generally:

• Public Radio Fan - Lists stations and shows with links to streaming audio
• "Public Radio doesn't take enough risks," says Ira Glass, host of the risk-taking This American Life

Pacifica Network:

• Pacifica - Network of left-liberal radio stations
• KPFA - Pacifica radio from Berkeley

BBC:

• BBC home page
• BBC World Service
• World Service Schedules
• BBC Archives - Historic recordings on many subjects


• Voice of America

Online Radio:

See also

• Music Services and Recommendations
• Radio Paradise - Great playlist and it's free (but you should support them if you can)
• LAUNCHcast - Stations for all genres, plus users' own homemade channels (Yahoo Music)

California Stations:

• KPIG - A really eclectic station from the aptly named Freedom, California. Broadcasting at 107.5 FM in the Monterey Bay Area, 94.9 FM in the San Luis Obispo area, 96.7 FM in Chico, and 1510 AM in Piedmont. Try listening to it online if you're not in the area.
• KFJC - The "Wave of the West," eclectic music from Foothill Jr. College, Los Altos Hills
• KFOG - "True variety" (for a commercial station) from San Francisco and San Jose
• KKUP - "People's radio"
• KSCU, Santa Clara University

Radio History:

• Internet Archive: Radio Programs - Includes some old-time radio shows
• Library of Congress: Recorded Sound Reference Center - A great source for radio history
• Museum of Television and Radio, New York and Los Angeles

Television

• Encyclopedia of Television - Descriptions of shows and trends in the medium (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
• TV.com - Episode guides and videos

Listings:

• TV Guide
• Zap2It - Personalized TV listings, movies, videos, discussion boards

Episode Guides:

• Epguides.com - Hundreds of shows
• Television Without Pity - Mostly current shows. Beware: snarky zone

Public Television:

• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• Annenberg/CPB videos - Many of these were originally shown on PBS [learner.org]

Specific Shows:

Late Show with David Letterman:

• David Letterman

Monty Python:

• Monty PythOnline - Official site run by Eric Idle
• PythonFan - Official home of alt.fan.monty-python

The Prisoner:

Best show ever on television, IMO. ("I am not a number; I am a free man.")

• The Prisoner, Number Six
• The Prisoner Online
• Six of One: the Prisoner Appreciation Society
• The Unmutual

Red Green Show:

I wanna talk to you American viewers: make sure your local station shows this program. I'm pullin' for you; we're all in this together.

• The Red Green Show - Like Home Improvement, only funny ... and Canadian!

Rocky and Bullwinkle:

• Hokey Smoke! Rocky and Bullwinkle

Seinfeld:

• My favorite stories from George and Kramer
• Seinfeld episodes (Epguides)
• Seinfeld Scripts
• Stan the Caddy - Episode guide, scripts, characters, quotes, sounds, and more
• The real Kramer

The Simpsons:

• Guide to Springfield USA - A map of the Simpsons' hometown

Television History:

• Library of Congress: Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
• Museum of Television and Radio, New York and Los Angeles