Journalism

The Internet can provide a valuable source of information. Check out the University Library's Reading Laterally for Fact Checking page for in-depth strategies to critically think about the authority, bias, accuracy, currency, and coverage of the information you find. For more information see the resources on this page to support you in effectively reviewing internet sources. 

• Stanford University's Lateral Reading and Civic Online Reasoning resources
• Fair: How to Check Bias in the News Media

• American Journalism Review
• American Press Institute
• American Society of Newspaper Editors
• Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
• Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
• California Chicano News Media Association
• California First Amendment Coalition
• California Newspaper Publishers Association
• The Center for Public Integrity
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
• First Amendment Coalition
• Freedom Forum
• Free Press
• International Center for Journalists: Advancing Quality Journalism Worldwide
• Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
• Investigative Reporting Workshop
• Media Channel
• Media Law Research Center
• National Association of Broadcasters
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• National Press Club
• National Press Photographers Association
• National Society of Newspaper Columnists
• New Media Institute
• News Media Alliance
• Online News Association
• Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
• Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
  • The State of the News Media: An Annual Report on American Journalism
  • Media Ownership
• Poynteronline Resource Center
• ProPublica
• Public Relations Society of America
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Reporter.org
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
• Society of Professional Journalists
  • Publishes the Code of Ethics

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Advanced Google Searching

Google offers many search techniques to help refine results, similar to what can be done in a library database. For example:

Enclose keywords in quotes to search an exact phrase: "san fernando valley"

Enclose in parentheses and separate with OR to retrieve any of those keywords in the results: (csun OR "california state university northridge")

Add a minus sign to remove webpages containing a keyword or phrase: -parking

Limit search to specific website: site:.calstate.edu

Limit search to specific domain: site:.gov

Limit results by date of last update: From the results screen, click Search Tools and select time period from the Anytime menu

Get definitions or explanations of terms: define keyword/phrase, i.e., define "fiscal cliff"

Watch the Advanced Google Searching video for more help.

See also: Web Search Help for more tips and tricks for searching Google

More Search Engines

Google Scholar - (searches scholarly journals and other academic sources.) 

Google Products - (Google offers many productivity tools as well as other specialized search engines.)

SearchEngineWatch - (There's more to searching the Internet than Google! This is a comprehensive directory of search engines by type.)