Communication-related web sites

• Cyberspace, Hypertext and Digital Media
• World wide cultural eresources
• Women's Studies Resources: Communication and Media

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For Canadian news media see Canadian news media on the Journalism subject guide.

• Wire Report 
  News service covering Canada's media and telecom sectors.
• Canadian Communications Foundation: History of Canadian Broadcasting
  Resources and highlights of Canadian radio and television broadcasting history, includes some audio files, and a bibliography and directories.
• Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC
  Includes broadcasting and telecommunications industry reports and resources including statues and regulations, and ownership charts, and a library of their documents.
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Major Corporate and Regulatory Submissions
  Includes submissions of the CBC to CRTC and parliament, CBC annual reports, links to studies, planning and performance reports.
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
  Includes the submission of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage: State of the Canadian Broadcasting System. Includes a statistical overview of the Canadian broadcasting system, and trends Canadian use of radio and television.
• Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
  Includes submissions and presentations on policy to CRTC and parliamentary bodies as well as reports and studies.
• Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
• Numeris (formerly BBM)
  Provides top radio and television reports by week, for national and Quebec markets.
• Directory of CBC Television Series: 1952 -1982
  A directory of television programs produced in Canada and broadcast by the CBC. Each entry includes an informative summary of the program.
• Think TV (formerly Television Bureau of Canada)
  Offers TV viewing trends for Quebec and Canada.
• Canadian Media Fund
  Provides research reports on trendswithin the industry
• Canadian Media Producers Association
• Government of Canada. Broadcasting.
  Information on broadcasting policies, organizations and regulations.
• Statistics Canada
  Data, reports and analysis from the Radio and Television Broadcasting Survey, including Television Broadcasting 2017, Private Radio Broadcasting, 2017 as well as financial data on radio and television broadcasting industries.
• Broadcasting Database: Industry Canada

New Media:

• The State of Social Media in Canada 2017: A New Report From @SMLabTO
• Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984-2016
  Research report from the Canadian Media Research Consortium
• Media Smarts: Canada's Center for Digital and Media Literacy, Research Reports

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U.S. news media see U.S. News Media on the Journalism subject guide.

• Benton Foundation
  Provides news and information on U.S. telecommunications legislation, broadcasting and ownership
• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 
  Archival research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries. The database's core US and UK trade magazines cover film, music, broadcasting and theater, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews. 
• Federal Communications Commission. Media Ownership
• Museum of Broadcast Communications
  Provides a digital archive of radio and television broadcasts including "Top 125 Political Moments", radio shows, television shows and broadcast commericals.
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  Indexes and abstracts news broadcasts from major U.S. networks. Includes streaming audio for NBC news from 1968 onwards, and CNN from 1995 onwards.
• Internet Archive: TV News Archive
  Search TV broadcasts since 2009 and view clips
• BBC World News/Diniacopoulos Project and its Archives
  Concordia University, Centre for Broadcasting Studies maintains an archive of BBC World Service English Network Radio News from 1970 to 1986.
• Universal Newsreels
  From the Internet Archive, presents over 600 newsreels from 1929-1967

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• Media History Digital Library
  Resource features millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
• Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection
  
• NFB online screening room (National Film Board of Canada)
• NFB: Focus on Animation
  70 animated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada that may be viewed online.
• Documentary Lens
  Offers a selection of documentaries that may be viewed online.
• Cinémathèque québécoise
• Telefilm Canada
• Canadian Media Production Association
• Montreal Film & Television Commission
• Le Quebec s'affiche
• Plan de soutien au cinema et a la production audiovisuelle
• Media Burn
  An archive of independent documentary video produced from 1972 to 2002
• Universal Newsreels
  From the Internet Archive, presents over 600 newsreels from 1929-1967
• Vithèque 
  La collection de Vithèque compte plus de 800 vidéos en ligne (animation, art vidéos, fictions, documentaires, vidéo de danse, etc.) et offre accès à l'information sur plus de 1500 vidéos et 900 vidéastes.
• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
  Academic and popular film journals are included in this index with links to their full-text. FIAF also covers silent-era film holdings from archives around the world and some reference volumes.
  

See also our video streaming databases

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Canadian

• CBC Archives
  A selection of CBC radio and television audio and video clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Organized by topic, with contextual notes.
• Les archives de Radio-Canada
  A selection of radio and television audio and video clips from the archives of Radio-Canada.
• Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound recordings
• Enregistrements Sonores
  From the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec, 2000 recordings online, indexes include chronologically from 1900 to 1952, by composer, performer, genre and record label.
• Phonotheque Quebecoise: Musee du Son
  A sound archive for Quebec. Includes resources (texts and bibliographies) on the history of sound, music and radio in Quebec and real audio sound clips from French and English language radio stations.

U.S. and International

• Recorded Sound Reference Center
  From the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
• British Library, National Sound Archive
  The catalogue of the British Library Sound Archives. A very limited number of soundtracks are available for listening online. To find these do a keyword search on "virtual nsa".
• American Rhetoric
  Includes an impressive array of audiofiles of recorded media divided into categories including, the Online Speechbank, Figures in Sound, Movie Speeches, the Rhetoric of Post 911.
• Media History Digital Library 
  Resource features millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
• UC Berkley Lectures and Events
  Includes some interesting audio clips of prominent people who have spoken at Berkley including Noam Chomsky, Margaret Mead, Malcom X, Michel Foucault and others.
• Historical Voices
  A repository of historical sound projects. Click on "Gallery" to view featured projects including "Earliest Voices"

See also our sound databases

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• BANQ Collection numerique
  Digital collections from the Bibliotheque et Archives Nationale du Quebec
• ArchiviaNet
  A research finding tool to collections related to the National Archives of Canada.
• Library and Archives Canada: Electronic Collection
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  Click on "Collections finder" to see how the collections are organized.
• Ad*Access
  A searchable database of historical advertisements. To retrieve Canadian advertisements, you may limit by country of publication. For U.S. historical advertisements, see also The Emergence of Advertising in America digital collection.
• Gifts of Speech: Women's speeches from around the world
• Internet Archive Book Images
  Search through a database of images appearing in books from the Internet Archive
• Getty Research Portal
  Search through a digital archive of art history publications and related material

See also our image and primary source databases

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For Canadian broadcasting associations, see the links under Canadian Broadcasting. For journalism associations, see Journalism: Internet Resources

• Canadian Communication Association
• Canadian Public Relations Society
• American Communication Association
• American Society for the History of Rhetoric
• The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
• International Communication Association
• National Communication Association

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