Determining Media Ownership
Business and Industry Profiles & Data
Hoover's Company Profiles
Now available through
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Try Business ► Company Profiles
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Excellent for industry overview and analysis. Use Industries
►Industry Surveys
A print version can be found at
REF
HG4965 .S73
Business and Company Resource Center
Helpful for company rankings and market share.
Media Advocacy Groups:
Here are just a few. There are many more out there. A Google search on
'Media ownership' will bring back many of them.
When searching:
ALWAYS check the dates of pages you find.
In most cases, only recent information is good information.
ALWAYS question the authority of sites,
checking for bias or hidden agendas.
ALWAYS look for sources, citations,
attributions, or other means of verifying what you find on a website. Then
check the original source.
American Journalism Review
A nice portal for homepages of various
media companies.
Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting (FAIR)
Try their archives page for list of media outlets as well as a link to
compiled articles on
Corporate Ownership.
Columbia Journalism Review
Look for
Who
Owns What
Influence and Impact of
Media Ownership
Industry
periodicals:
All of the titles you need
can be searched through the following databases:
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Advertising Age
Broadcasting & Cable
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Try Business► Industry & Market ► Choose industry (e.g., broadcasting &
cable; arts & entertainment) ►Check date range ►Enter search terms ►Use
Headline, Lead Paragraph, Terms► search►Use Expanded List to scan results
Editor & Publisher
Television Week
Hollywood Reporter
Media Week
Brand Week
Variety
Entertainment Weekly
Billboard
Hoover’s Company and Industry Reports
Publisher’s Weekly
and lots more.
Popular Press
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Try News► General News ► Magazines & Journals ►Check date range ►Enter search terms ►Use
Headline, Lead Paragraph, Terms► search►Use Expanded List to scan results
U.S. News & World Report
Time Magazine
Newsweek
and more.
Miscellaneous
For Movies, Television and Radio
www.imdb.com
Look for Overview►Company Credits
Online Nielsen ratings can be found at:
http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272|||weekly,00.html
Nielsen itself is at:
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/
Radio market information can be found at:
http://www.arbitron.com/home/content.stm
Magazine resources--see:
SRDS
Advertising rates and circulation
data for thousands of consumer and business periodicals, as well as
broadcast and cable television stations. PLEASE LOGOUT WHEN FINISHED
SEARCHING! This is a single-user database.
Print copies of Business Publication Source (HF5905
.S723) and Consumer Magazine Source
(HF5905
.S794) available in the Reference
section of the library.
If you are having trouble finding sources,
contact me!