Recommended Web Sites: Communications

An online collection of the most well-known and important speeches in American history, including Top 100 Speeches, a rhetorical literacy, Obama's speeches, movie speeches, figures in sound, Christian rhetoric, the rhetoric of 9/11, and more.

Columbia Journalism Review’s mission is to encourage and stimulate excellence in journalism in the service of a free society. It is both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms, from newspapers to magazines to radio, television, and the Web, with the website delivering real-time criticism and reporting, giving CJR a vital presence in the ongoing conversation about the media.

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin, and misinformation.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism is a nonpartisan, nonideological, and nonpolitical project that aims to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media is changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. It is dedicated to understanding the information revolution, using empirical methods, particularly content analysis, to evaluate and study the press's performance.

The Pew Research Center is an independent, nonpartisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press, and public policy issues. It is a valuable information resource for political leaders, journalists, scholars, and citizens.

An assortment of highlights -- plus a few lowlifes -- about early U.S. radio history, from the late 1800s to the 1940s.