Guides to the Literature

• Journalism: a guide to the reference literature
• Communication and the mass media: a guide to the reference literature
• Guide to sources in American journalism history
• Press freedom and development: a research guide and selected bibliography

Bibliographies

• American journalism history: an annotated bibliography
• Annotated bibliography of works on daily newspapers in Canada: 1914-1983
• Bibliography on Canadian broadcasting
• Editing: an annotated bibliography
• Freedom of the press: an annotated bibliography
• Freedom of the press: an annotated bibliography, second supplement, 1978-1992
• La presse Quebecoise des origines a nos jours
• La presse Quebecoise de 1764 a 1914: bibliographie analytique
• Tabloid journalism: an annotated bibliography of English language sources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Key concepts in journalism studies
• Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (online)
• Censorship, 3 vols. 1997
• Censorship: a world encyclopedia, 4 vols. 2001
• Concise encyclopedia of ethics in politics and the media
• Dictionary of media and communication studies
• Encyclopedia of American journalism
• Encyclopedia of communication and information, 3 vols.
• Encyclopedia of the British press, 1422-1992
• Encyclopedia of international media and communications, 4 vols.
• Encyclopedia of new media
• Encyclopedia of political communication (online)
• Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics, media and communications
• Encyclopedia of television news
• Facts on file dictionary of film and broadcast terms
• History of the mass media in the United States: an encyclopedia
• Historical dictionary of war journalism
• International encyclopedia of communications, 4 vols.
• Mass media a chronological encyclopedia...
• Museum of Broadcast Communications, encyclopedia of radio
• World Press Encyclopedia: a survey of press systems worldwide

Handbooks and Stylebooks

• Associated Press broadcast news handbook
• Guide to Canadian news media
• The journalist's legal guide (Canada)
• Canadian broadcasting regulatory handbook
• Canadian Press stylebook: a guide for writers and editors
• Stylebook and briefing on media law (Associated Press)
• A broadcast news manual of style
• The Gazette style
• The Globe and Mail style book: a guide to language and usage
• The language of news: a journalist's pocket reference

Media Profiles

• Publication profiles
• Le Guide annuel des médias
• Canadian Media Director's Media Council Media Digest

Media Directories and Writers' Market

• Canadian writer's market
• CARD: Canadian advertising rates and data
• Ethnic Media and Markets
• CCNMatthew's media directory (red book)
• CCNMatthew's CATV directory (blue book)
• CCNMatthew's CCE directory (green book)
• Medias d'information du Québec: répertoire descriptif
• Canadian publishers' directory
• The Book trade in Canada
• Canadian Almanac and Directory
• Scott's Canadian sourcebook
• Writer's market (North America)
• Gale directory of publications and broadcast media
• Editor and Publisher International Yearbook
• Literary market place: the directory of American book publishing
• Willing's press guide
• International directory of little magazines & small presses
• Ulrichsweb
• International literary market place
• Broadcasting & cable yearbook
• World radio TV handbook

Biographical Sources

• Literature Resource Centre
  Especially useful for literary journalism and journalism history. Search by journalist or browse volumes.
• Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000
• Dossiers de presse sur les écrivains québecois (ceased 1993)
• Feminine Gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945
• Petit dictionnaire des écrivains. 1979.
• Journalist biographies master index. 1979
• Literary journalism: a biographical dictionary of writers and editors
• Who was who in journalism, 1925-1928
• Biographical dictionary of American journalism
• Encyclopedia of twentieth-century journalists