What's going on in the Arab world and media you might ask? It's an immensely interesting subject, and one that is tackled with persistence, aplomb, and timeliness by the staff members at the Arab Media & Society website. The website was created by a working partnership between the American University in Cairo's Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research and The Middle East Centre at...

Paper Cuts: Diligently plotting the decline of US newspapershttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/apr/06/newspapers-downturn Tweaking the Cable Model, to Avoid Newspapers' Fate http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/tweaking-the-cable-model-to-avoid-newspapers-fate/ Herb Caen and his city http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/04/LV5016MC6J.DTL Caen on capital...

Ebert returns to the movies http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/870571,ebert040108.article Meet a Critic: USA Today's Claudia Puig Surveys The Critical Landscape http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/1719013/ The Nation: James Agee's Review of "It's a Wonderful Life" http://www.thenation.com/doc/19470215/agee The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays,...

The Fifth Floor presents "a fresh look at the stories of the week" with journalists from BBC's 27 language sections. Hosted by David Amanor, the podcast series is reminiscent of a British take on "This American Life" focused on stories from around the world. Episodes tend to focus on the idiographic details of larger issues. For instance, recent programs have explored the story of Rio de Janeiro...

Bonhams "is the world's oldest and largest auctioneer of fine art and antiques still in British ownership." The archive of Bonhams Magazine available on this website goes back to the winter issue of 2007. Art historians, historians, and archaeologists will find fascinating articles in the aforementioned issue on craftsman Matthew Boulton, the mystery of the Bront children, centuries-old dog...

To some, the very phrase “Book TV” might seem to be anathema, potentially even heretical or at the very least distasteful. Regardless, the past few decades have witnessed a détente between these two seemingly contradictory, and potentially even combative, forms of mass media, and C-SPAN 2 has done a fine job of bringing noted authors to this program to talk about their recent printed endeavors. On...

Seasoned and novice business reporters will enjoy learning about the existence of the BusinessJournalism.org website. Created by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University the site was launched in February 2004, and since then it has grown to include a host of instructional materials, including tutorials on how to cover financial markets and...

C-SPAN offers a variety of thematic programs, and their American History TV runs every weekend for most of the day and into the late evening. The programs offer up conversations with authors and historians, along with first person accounts of American history. Visitors can use this site to view their programming, and the homepage includes a complete schedule of past and upcoming programs, along...

The Golden State is well chronicled in this digital newspaper collection created by the University of California, Riverside. The offerings here include over 400,000 pages of significant California newspapers published from 1846 to 1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian. First-time visitors can get started by looking over the Featured paper on the site's homepage. There are...

Untangling the history of various trades and industries requires a keen eye and a great deal of patience. Some of these fields have a wide range of trade publications, and the Canadian Printer and Publishers periodical is a fine source of information about the development and growth of this industry during the late 19th and early 20th century. The talented folks at the University of Toronto's...