Professor:
Melissa Wall, Ph.D.
Phone: 818/677-5677
Office & Hours: Manzanita 330
1-2 p.m. Mondays, 5-7 p.m. Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m Thursdays or by appointment.
Al Jazeera has started an English language website. It was hacked by unknown persons but should be back up soon.
PROPAGANDA
Manipulating minds: Interesting site on psyops (psychological operations) produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.cbc.ca/webone/psyop/mm_shell.html
General info
Propaganda
critic
Overview of the history of propaganda and how to spot it
War,
Propaganda and the Media
All about
propaganda
Brookings
Institute session on propaganda for America
US government propaganda specialists talk about the effectivenes of their
recent work
Examples
Disinfopedia
Propaganda used in
the Iraq war
US
military propaganda leaflets in Iraq
Clandestine radio
Listen to shortwave propaganda stations from around the world
UK
Professor Philip Taylor's site on propaganda and the war on terrorism
Historical Examples
Northwestern
University's collection of WWII propaganda posters
National
Archives
Poster art from World War II
INFO ABOUT MEDIA IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Check the archives at the Museum of Broadcast Communications for information about the media around the world.
Statistics about Japanese Media
Media Center Belgrade (Serbia)
World
Radio and Television Council explain
the rationale for public service broadcasting
INDEXES OF NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER MEDIA FROM AROUND THE WORLD
ECOLA
(Links to newspapers around the world)
Online
newspapers around the world
China Media Guide & Mondo Times (links to Chinese media)
OTHER NEWS SOURCES
British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
South
African Broadcasting Association
RESEARCH & COMMENTARY
American
Society of Newspaper Editors' report on improving international news
Foreign News: Who gives a damn?
Foreign
News Shrinks in Era of Globalization
Global
News and the Vanishing American Foreign Correspondent
Video: News Organizations Balance High Cost of Coverage with Greater Interest in Foreign News
NEWS MEDIA & WAR
Visit
the Memory Hole and click on This is Gulf War
Images from current
and first wars with Iraq
The
Unseen Gulf War
Photographer Peter Turnley published online photographs that mainstream
media didn't want to print during the first Gulf War
Under Fire: Images from Vietnam
Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
Ethics
of War Reporting: BBC's Katie Adie
From Rookie Reporter to Taliban Prisoner
Information
Technology, War and Peace
Reporting
the World: A Guide to Best Practices
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
Two
years after she was shot in Bethlehem a photojournalist looks back
JOURNALIST ORGANIZATIONS & PRESS FREEDOM
Committee
to Protect Journalists
International
Center for Foreign Journalists
International
Federation of Journalists
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
International
Women's Media Foundation Latin American Women's Media Initiative
Reporters
Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders)
RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS