Media and Communication Graduate Courses: News and Statistics

WARC (World Advertising Research Center) provides information relating to marketing, advertising, and mass communications. It includes thousands of global case studies, along with articles, opinion pieces and conference reports. It also provides comprehensive historic and forecast advertising expenditure data, together with global media cost data.

Social Explorer provides quick and easy access to modern and historical socioeconomic and demographic data, bringing together quantitative data with a visual interface to make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive.

Statista is an online statistics portal providing access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions.

A vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, containing thousands of digital files of social science research data in political science, sociology, economics, criminal justice, and more.

Sage Data Foundations is a dynamic tool which enables users to scan and search the contents of billions of datasets from the United States. Results can be compared and contrasted, and viewed in customizable tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources. Sources include public, private/commercial, and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Woods & Poole Economics, Inc.