Mass Media & Strategic Communications

The Department of Mass Media & Strategic Communications offers 8 concentrations:
Broadcast & Multimedia Production,
Broadcasting,
Editorial News,
Journalism & Digital Communication,
Media Design,
Media Design & Digital Content Production,
Public Relations, and
Strategic Communication and Public Relations.
In addition, the department offers a Master of Arts in Strategic Communication.

Mass Media & Strategic Communications will prepare graduates for careers in broadcasting, advertising, publications, or journalism.

Chronicling America provides access to millions of digitized historic American newspapers pages. This page includes links and descriptions to several different types of interactive maps, graphs, and charts designed to assist users in better understanding the scope and coverage of newspapers in Chronicling America.

In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.

International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Coverage: 1980 - current

NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, and primarily pro-con format.

The News Study research report presents findings about how a sample of U.S. college students gather information and engage with news in the digital age.

The Associated Collegiate Press, a division of the National Scholastic Press Association, based and incorporated in Minnesota as a non-profit educational association, provides journalism education services to students, teachers, media advisers and others throughout the United States and in other countries.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading organization protecting civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, we defend free speech online, fight illegal surveillance, promote the rights of digital innovators, and work to ensure that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are enhanced, rather than eroded, as our use of technology grows.

The Interactive Chart allows the viewer to click on a news source and see its bias score and location on the chart.

We provide data journalists with free resources, materials, online video courses and community forums. DataJournalism.com is created by the European Journalism Centre and supported by Google News Initiative.