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.
If you're searching for particular images or sound or video files (including news clips), see my Multimedia search page.
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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
- New Pages - Your guide to independent media. A Weblog 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)
- See also Area Studies for the news media of particular places
- See my Alternative News Media, Media Criticism, and Political Research page
Web Directories:
Alternatives and Criticism:
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
- 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)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Livre: Portal to Free Access Journals on the Internet (Brazil Ministry of Science and Technology)
- Public Library of Science (PLoS) - Open access journals in biology and medicine, with more to come
- See also Medical Indexes and Journals
Web Directories:
Open Access Journals:
These journals are: (1) Free, (2) Scholarly (often peer-reviewed), and often (3) Online only. See also What is Open Access? by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Film
- See my Film page
Magazines and Journals
- The Atlantic
- McSweeney's Internet Tendency - Online version of the hardcover quarterly
- 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
- For finding articles in periodicals, see Periodical Indexes and Journal Publishers
- For political journals, see Alternative News Media
- See also:
- Alternative Culture Periodicals
- Book Reviews
- Fun Comics
- Open Access Journals, above
- Publist - A searchable database of periodicals
- E-mail Alerting Services of Major Publishers/Vendors (Chinese University of Hong Kong library)
- Headline Spot: Magazines
- Internet Public Library: Serials
- Librarians' Internet Index: 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
- Open Directory Project: Magazines and E-zines
- Online Books Page: Serials - List of journals with archives available on the Web
- Genuine Canadian Magazines [Magomania.com]
- Journal Abbreviation Sources - For each subject, Gerry McKiernan provides one or more sources for looking up journal abbreviations
Web Directories:
Canada:
Abbreviations:
Newspapers
- New York Times - The
nation's leading newspaper (free, but requires registration)

- Christian Science Monitor

- Guardian - The UK's
left-leaning daily

- See also Guardian Newsblog
- International Herald Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- Washington Post

- Newseum: Today's Front Pages - See image files of the front pages of newspapers from around the world. Fascinating!
- Home Town News - Links to thousands of U.S. daily and weekly newspapers
- Newslink: Newspapers - International
- NewspaperIndex - International
- Newspapers Online - U.S. and international [newspapers.com]
- NewsVoyager - Large list of U.S., Canadian, and international papers (Newspaper Association of America)
- Online Newspapers - Non-U.S. newspapers arranged by country (Internet Public Library)
- 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)
- Newspaper Directories (LibDex)
- 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)
- See also:
- News for sources of breaking news
- Alternative News Media page for alternative newspapers
- Area Studies pages for newspapers in all parts of the world
- Indexes for indexes to magazines and journals
Newspaper Web Directories:
Directory of Directories:
Newspaper Archives (Historic Newspapers):
Radio
- Radio Locator (formerly the MIT List)
- Radio Station World
- Virtual Tuner - Internet radio stations
- NPR home page
(What's this?) - Fans will want to check out all the NPR People
- Those funny bits on the half hour of "Morning Edition"? They're called Bob Edwards' Returns
- 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"). Out of the area:
listen to the online service, iJPR.
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 of left-liberal radio stations
- KPFA - Pacifica radio from Berkeley
- BBC home page
- Voice of America
- 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)
- 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. Try listening to it
online if you're not in the area.
Update: The Webcast has been suspended due to high royalty fees demanded by the recording industry. See Save Internet Radio for details
Update 2: A Webcast is available if you pay for a RealOne RadioPass subscription. - 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
- 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
Web Directories:
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.
Local Stations:
Pacifica Network:
BBC:
Online Radio:
California Stations:
Radio History:
Television
See also Video from Television Shows to search for videos available online.
- TV Guide
- Yahoo TV
- Zap2It - Personalized TV listings, movies, videos, discussion boards
- Epguides.com - Hundreds of shows
- Television Without Pity - Mostly current shows. Beware: snarky zone
- See also Video Search Engines
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- Annenberg/CPB videos - Many of these were originally shown on PBS [learner.org]
- David Letterman
- Monty PythOnline - Official site run by Eric Idle
- Monty Python's Flying Circus in Australia - Largest collection of sketches, official home of alt.fan.monty-python
- The Prisoner, Number Six
- The Prisoner Appreciation Society: Six of One
- The Red Green Show - Like Home Improvement, only funny ... and Canadian!
- Hokey Smoke! Rocky and Bullwinkle
- 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
- Guide to Springfield USA - A map of the Simpsons' hometown
- Library of Congress: Motion Picture & Television Reading Room
- Museum of Television and Radio, New York and Los Angeles
Listings:
Episode Guides:
Public Television:
Specific Shows:
Late Show with David Letterman:
Monty Python:
The Prisoner:
Best show ever on television, IMO. ("I am not a number; I am a free man.")
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.