Media Trade Publications
The TMU Library provides access to a number of media publications, including trade journals and websites. Some titles include:
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Playback This link opens in a new windowPlayback is Canada’s production, broadcasting and interactive media destination, offering an intimate view of industry events, trends, and innovations. TMU only has access to the Playback's Magazines.
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Variety"Variety is the most authoritative and trusted source of entertainment business news, recognized and respected throughout the world. Since 1905, influential producers, executives and talent in entertainment and beyond have turned to Variety for award-winning daily breaking news reports, insightful award-season coverage, must-read feature spotlights and intelligent analysis of the industry’s most prominent players."
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Deadline"Up-to-the-minute entertainment, Hollywood and media news, with an unfiltered, no-holds-barred analysis of events."
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Hollywood Reporter"Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more"
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C21 MediaNews, analysis and resources for the global entertainment business.
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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowAn archival research resource containing essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, 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.
Coverage: 1880 - 2000
Search for Trade Publications
You can also search our ProQuest or Factiva databases and filter your search for trade publications.
To search for trade publications on ProQuest, click the "All source types" drop down menu, then select "Trade Journals."
Includes Screen International, Broadcast, Hollywood Reporter, Boxoffice Pro, Streaming Media Magazine, Variety, etc.
In Factiva, click on "Source." Click on "Group: All Publications" and select "Remove." You can then filter your results by "Industry," and selecting "Advertising/Marketing" and "Media/Entertainment."
Includes C21 Media, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Indiewire, Billboard, TVLine, MediaPost, etc.
Search for Journalism Using Omni
You can also use the Omni search tool on the library home page to filter your results to other types of publications, including newspaper articles, magazine articles, scholarly journals, or books. To limit your search results to only newspaper articles and news items, click the three dots at the top of the page and select "Newspaper Search."
For more targeted or advanced newspaper searches, consider using one of our specialized newspaper databases.
Newspaper Databases
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Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
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US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowUS Newsstream is part of Global Newsstream. It enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching.
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Factiva This link opens in a new windowFactiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides global content with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva provides access to global and local newspapers, magazines, industry-specific journals and newsletters, newswires, media programs, and websites. Company Research Tools Perform company screening on a collection of nearly 24,000 global companies using 26 criteria. Current quotes and market data are available. Instrument types supported include global stocks, market indices, mutual funds and corporate bonds.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni® features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.