LibGuides: Communication & Design: CMAT 303

Business News

Baltimore Business Journal (requires creating an account)
What you’ll find here: Digital version of the Baltimore Business Journal newspaper, featuring local business news of the Baltimore metropolitan region. Great resource for current news on healthcare, banking, real estate, technology, and food & lifestyle. Includes the Book of Lists.
Get access by creating a free account with your ubalt.edu email address here.
Baltimore Sun
What you’ll find here: Articles from Baltimore’s main daily newspaper from 1990 to the present. This is the best source for local coverage. For more current newspaper issues, see National Newspapers.
How to search this database: Look at the ProQuest help page.

Daily Record
The Daily Record reports on commerce, finance, law, business, construction and real estate, with a focus on Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Friday’s edition features Maryland Business, with an expanded look at business news.
The paper tracks Maryland’s appellate courts, the circuit courts for Baltimore City and Baltimore County and Montgomery County and includes significant case law and opinion digests. The paper also covers the federal courts in Baltimore and Greenbelt and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Forbes
For corporate officers and other major executives in business interested in developing management insight through review of the nation's largest corporations.
Harvard Business Review
Written for upper level management. Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.

New York Times (ProQuest database)
What you'll find here: Articles from recent issues of The New York Times, one of the most prominent and respected daily newspapers in the U.S. For full page views of older issues, see The New York Times [Historical] below.
How to search this database: Look at the ProQuest help page.
Washington Post
What you'll find here: Articles from Washington, D.C.'s largest daily newspaper from 1996 to the present. Its coverage of the U.S. federal government also makes a good resource for national news. For older issues of The Washington Post, see The Washington Post [Historical] below.
How to search this database: Look at the ProQuest help page.

ABI Inform
What you’ll find here: Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles that focus on business, management, government and public policy. This is a great resource if you’re looking for news and trends, company financial information, or management practice and theory.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
This website contains labor and productivity costs, producer price index and other valuable industry data.
IBIS World
What you’ll find here: Market research reports for a wide variety of United States and global industries. These reports offer a look at the industry's performance and outlook, competitive landscape, and key statistics among other information.
Mintel Market Reports
Primarily a marketing database, you can conduct a search by keyword in the top right corner, or browse by category on the main page. The reports include information on brands, market size and trends, retail distribution and more, with categories depending on the industry. Note: You will need to accept the user agreement and create a free username (using your ubalt.edu email) and password.
NAICS
Industry codes used to by the government to classify businesses
U.S. Census
This website has links to thousands of reports, tables and charts on all the information the government collects from people and businesses.