Broadcast Journalism Bibliography

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Online Resources
Books

ONLINE RESOURCES

Al Tompkins' Morning Meeting (Poynter.org)
http://poynter.org/morningmeeting/
Story ideas and links for journalists.

B Roll Online
http://www.b-roll.net/
B Roll Online is devoted to TV news photography.

The Backhaul
http://thebackhaul.com/
An e-zine indexing selected stories by the nation's
local television news staffs.

Broadcasters: WWW Virtual Library
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html
This is the broadcast section of the WWW Virtual Library.

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.

Electronic Media
http://www.emonline.com/
EM covers the programming business of broadcast and cable television.

FCC: Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/
This website includes news and announcements from the FCC.

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.

Local TV News Project
http://www.journalism.org/publ_research/local-tv/
A series of reports from the Project For Excellence in Journalism.

Lost Remote
http://www.lostremote.com/
Broadcast journalism Weblog founded by Cory Bergman.

Mervinblock.com
http://www.mervinblock.com/tips.html
Writing Tips from Mervin Block.

MIBTB - Broadcasting Training Program
http://www.webcom.com/mibtp/
The Minorities in Broadcasting Training Program's
goal is to diversify the newsroom.

Museum of Broadcast Communications
http://www.museum.tv/index.shtml
"The MBC examines popular culture and contemporary American
history through the sights and sounds of television and radio."

Museum of Television and Radio
http://www.mtr.org/
The MT&R collects and preserves television and
radio programs and makes these programs available to the public.

NAB: National Association of Broadcasters
http://www.nab.org
For more than 75 years the NAB has represented
the radio and television industries in Washington.

National Association of Minorities in Cable
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.

NewsLab
http://www.NewsLab.org
NewsLab is a hands-on, non-profit, television news laboratory
affiliated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

NewsProNet
http://www.newspronet.com/
NewsProNet offers news and special reports about the communications industry.

The Producer's Book
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/producer/thebook/
An online book about producing edited by Alice Main and Robert Stewart.

The Producer's Page
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/producer/
Resource site/newsletter, 1995-2000.

Public Radio Ethics and Style Guidebook
http://www.npr.org/inside/styleguide/stylmain.htm
"An online styleguide compiled from guides in use
in public radio news organizations."

PRNDI: Public Radio News Directors Incorporated
http://www.prndi.org/
PRNDI encourages the professional
development and training of public radio journalists.

RTNDA: Radio and Television News Directors Association
http://www.rtnda.org/
RTNDA represents local and network news executives
in broadcast, cable and other electronic media.

RTNDA Research:
Salary Survey
http://rtnda.org/research/salaries.shtml
Women & Minorities Survey
http://rtnda.org/research/womin.shtml
Newsroom Workforce Survey
http://rtnda.org/research/staff.shtml
Newsroom Profitability Survey
http://rtnda.org/research/profit.shtml
News Judgement and Ethics
http://rtnda.org/research/judg.shtml
Local Web News
http://www.rtnda.com/study/casestudy.shtml

Shoptalk
http://www.tvspy.com/shoptalk.htm
Shoptalk is a daily newsletter about the television industry.

TVnewz.com
http://www.tvnewz.com/
A webzine for TV news professionals.

Television and Radio News Research
http://www.missouri.edu/~jourvs/index.html
A systematic look at television and radio by Vernon Stone,
Professor Emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism.

TV Rundown
http://www.tvrundown.com/
The TV Rundown reports on local television news and programming.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
The Television News Archive collection is at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Zap2it.com Resources
http://tv.zap2it.com/resources/
A collection of TV sources compiled by Zap2it.com.

BOOKS

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.

Beadle, Mary and Michael D. Murry. Indelible Images: Women of Local Television.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

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, 4th ed.
Boston: Focal Press, 1997.

Brinkley, Joel. Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.

Brown, James and Quaal Ward. Radio-Television-Cable Management.
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. Broadcast News Handbook.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Carroll, Victoria. Writing News for Television.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.

Chantler, Paul and Sim Harris. Local Radio Journalism.
Boston: Focal Press, 1997.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys:
Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Cohler, David Keith. Broadcast Newswriting.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Covington, William G. Creativity in TV & Cable Managing & Producing.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.

Cremer, Charles, et al. ENG: Television News.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

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.

Day, James. The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Donald, Ralph and Thomas Spann. Fundamentals of Television Production.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Dotson, Bob and Matt Lauer. Make It Memorable:
Writing and Packaging TV News With Style.
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:
the 50 Greatest Women in Radio and Television
as Selected by American Women in Radio and Television.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2001.

Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

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.

Goldenson, Leonard H. Beating the Odds:
The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC.
New York: Scribners, Maxwell Macmillan, 1991.

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. Broadcasting in America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

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.

Jankowski, Gene F. Television Today and Tomorrow:
It Won't Be What You Think.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kalbfeld, Brad. The Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Keith, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995.

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:
TV News Photographers and Their Work.
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.

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. Radio: The Forgotten Medium.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Persico, Joseph E. Edward R. Murrow: An American Original.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Postman, Neil and Steve Powers. How to Watch TV News.
New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

Pringle, Peter, et al. Electronic Media Management. 4th ed.
Boston: Focal Press, 1999.

Scott, Randall K. Human Resource Management in the Electronic Media.
Westport: Quorum Books, 1998.

Sherman, Barry. Telecommunications Management.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1995.

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.

Smith, Anthony. Television: An International History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Smith, Dow. Power Producer.
Washington, DC: RTNDA, 2000.

Sperber, A.M. Murrow: His Life and Times.
New York: Freundlich Books, 1986.

Sterling, Christopher H. and John Michael Kittross.
Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Utterback, Ann S. Broadcaster's Survival Guide.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1997.

Walker, James R. and Douglas A. Ferguson. The Broadcast Television Industry.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Wendland, Mike. Wired Journalist: Newsroom Guide to the Internet. 3rd ed.
Washington, DC: RTNDA, 1999.

Wertheimer, Linda. Listening to America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.

White, Ted. Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing.
Boston: Focal Press, 1996.

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