JTC411 - Media Ethics & Issues

Course description: Professional ethics, issues of media performance and of the relation of media systems to the social systems.

Find Editorials

A wonderful printed resource that compiles editorials from around the US and Canada is Editorials on File.

Editorials on File. Twice monthly.
D 839 .E3 Reference (latest two years; earlier years in Movable Shelves)

Topics accompanied by brief factual summary of the events. Cross references to Facts on File. Covers over 150 daily newspapers in North America (45% of U.S. and 40% of Canadian newspaper editorials).

An online source for opinions (with pro and con) is Speakout.com. It is more selective than Editorials on File, but can be very useful.

Issues. Speakout.com

Opinion pieces on various topics: agriculture, civil justice, civil rights, communications & technology, constitutional issues, crime, defense policy, economics, education, elections, energy, environment, foreign affairs, government reform, health, immigration, labor, regulatory policy, science, social security, society & values, trade, transportation, urban renewal, welfare and housing. Topic coverage appears to be from the very early 2000s, but many of the topics are still being thrashed out.

Books containing or about editorials can be found by doing a subject search for the following topics in Primo:

For example:

Pulitzer Prize Editorials: America's Best Writing, 1917-2003. PN4726 .P8 2003 Morgan
Great Editorials: Masterpieces of Opinion Writing. PN4853 .G74 1997 Morgan
The View from the States: National Politics in Local Newspaper Editorials. PN4784 .E28 V47 2002 Morgan

Topical editorials can be found by specific event or issue:

Northern Editorials on Secession. 2 vols. E440.5 .P45 1964
Southern Editorials on Secession. E440.5 D89 1964
Reactions to the Persian Gulf War: Editorials in the Conflict Zone. DS79.739 .C46 1995 Morgan