The;Vault Guides to Jobs;series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for a career and getting your foot in the door.

From the Vault Career Library from background on the industry and an insider look at jobs and the career path in media and entertainment.

More than any other business, job-hunting in media and entertainment is based on pure savvy and insider knowledge. This guide provides full coverage of film, television, new media, print journalism, and entertainment firms, with a look at career paths and the hiring process.

Provides an insider's perspective on what's happening in the media and entertainment industries, what it takes to break in, and how to advance your career in media and entertainment.

With this new Guide created for the many job seekers drawn to the glamorous and exciting world of media and entertainment.

With this new Guide created for the many job seekers drawn to the glamorous and exciting world of media and entertainment.

Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature is a critically annotated bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast journalism. The first edition was published in 1990; the second in 1997. It has been described as one of the critical reference sources in journalism today, and it is a key bibliographic guide to the literature. Choice magazine called it a benchmark publication for which there are no comparable sources. The format is similar to the second edition. What makes this edition significantly different is the separation of Commercial Databases and Internet Resources. Commercial Databases includes standard fee-based resources. The new chapter on Internet sources features Web-based resources not included in the commercial databases chapter as well as portals, other online files, listservs, newsgroups, and Web logs/blogs. All chapters have been revised, and there are significant revisions in Directories, Yearbooks, and Collections; Miscellaneous Sources; Core Periodicals; Societies and Associations; and Research Centers and Archives. The second edition has 789 entries. The third edition contains almost 1,000 entries. James Carey of Columbia University, who provided the foreword for the first two editions, has updated his foreword for this edition.

This book offers a critical approach to studying media influences, and shows readers how to operate at a higher level of media literacy. Focusing not only on media effects, the book provides substantial discussion of media content, audiences, and the media industries. It tackles the key issues related to media ownership, invasion of privacy, piracy of media messages, violence, and sports. Utilizing a skill-building model throughout, students will finish the book with a clearer perspective on the borders between the real world and the simulated media world and will have become more informed and literate media consumers.