Books
Both, Deborah, & Zang, Barbara (Eds.). (1990). The working poor in America: A sourcebook for journalists. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. 240 pp.
Zang, Barbara (Ed.). (1988). Hunger in America: A sourcebook for journalists. Columbia: School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Zang, Barbara, & Blank, Helen. (1982). Child watch: Looking out for America's children. Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund.
Zang, Barbara (Ed.). (1980). How to get help for kids: A reference guide to services for handicapped children. New York: Gaylord Professional Publishers and Neal-Schuman. 245 pp.
Selected articles
Zang, Barbara. (1999, Fall). No visa required: Journalism’s journey across anthropology’s borders. Interpreting cultures: A symposium. Bloomington: Indiana University Department of Anthropology, 43-50.
Zang, Barbara. (1999, Summer). Thinking globally in J105 News. Chalkboard. The Program for Excellence in Teaching. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri.
Zang, Barbara. (1997, Fall). Civic journalism. Urban Journalism, a collection of papers published by the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia.
Zang, Barbara. (1995, Winter). [Review of Public journalism and public life: Why telling the news is not enough]. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 72 (4), 976-978.
Zang, Barbara. (1994, March/April). The activist: A paper that really gets involved. Columbia Journalism Review, 12-13.
Zang, Barbara. (1993, Fall). Out of the youth culture ghetto: Media writing as field work. QS News, newsletter of the Qualitative Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2-3, 11.
Zang, Barbara. (1990, April). 1990s: Decade of picture editors. News Photographer, 1-4.
Gentry, James K., & Zang, Barbara. (1989). Characteristics of graphics managers at metropolitan dailies. Newspaper Research Journal, 10 (4), 85-95.
Gentry, James K., & Zang, Barbara. (1989, January-February). The graphics editor takes charge. Washington Journalism Review, 24-28.
Zang, Barbara. (1989). Hunger in America: Public charity or public issue? IRE Journal, 12 (2), 5-8.