News Sources
Individual News Sources
- AlterNet
- An online news magazine offering alternative perspectives and information.
- The Boston Globe
- Includes a free headline email service and a searchable index of today's and yesterday's paper.
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Incudes an extensive archive of previous news stories.
- EuroNews
- This site will be of interest to anyone with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of important topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European Union, cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts of the EU. EuroNews may be viewed in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
- France24
- This site is from the French international news channel broadcast on a 24/7 basiss. It offers a French perspective on world events and is available in French, English, and Arabic.
- Guardian Unlimited
- Site of the Manchester Guardian.
- Inside China Today
- From the European Information Network
- International Herald Tribune
- News stories from around the world.
- MSNBC
- Daily news magazine from Microsoft and NBC.
- Newsday.com
- Newspaper of Long Island and Queens, New York
- OneWorld.net
- A global information network of nonprofit organizations that focuses attention on hidden voices and issues around the world.
- Out There News
- Analysis of major news events from around the world.
- ProPublica
- An independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
- Reuters
- Breaking news headlines.
- Russia Today
- From the European Information Network.
- Telegraph.co.uk
- World news from Great Britain.
- usnews.com
- Site of the U.S. News & World Report
- Village Voice
- The daily version of New York City's outspoken liberal weekly newspaper.
News Aggregators
- alltheweb: news
- Search interface for hundreds of news sources from around the world updated in near real time.
- AltaVista - News
- Searchable collection of news stories of the past several days from the AltaVista search engine.
- Custom Newspapers
- Access to more than 95 U.S and other, mostly British, English language newspapers. Searchable by title, headline, author, date and section; ten newspapers per search.
- Ethnic Newswatch
- Full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Covers the African American, Arab American, Asian American, Native American, European and Eastern European, Jewish, and Hispanic, Chicano and Latino point of view. The database (English and Spanish articles) is searchable in either English or Spanish.
- EUFeeds
- This site is an RSS aggregator for European newspapers with access to more than 300 papers from the European Union.
- FindNews
- Searchable collection of updated news from several sources along with links to other news sources on the Web .
- Google News
- Searchable collection of headlines from several sources along with links to other news sources on the Web.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Databases for news, law, business, biography, medicine, and reference. Also available here is free access to the New York Times columnists.
- Moreover
- Headlines from hundreds of sources in hundreds of categories gathered by a spider that visits designated sites four times/hour; view 5 latest headlines, or 25 headlines after free login.
- NewsNow
- Searchable collection of breaking news from around the world organized into topical categories and updated every five minutes.
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Cover to cover full test of 185 national and international newspapers; full text television and radio news transcripts from CBS news, CNN, CNN international, FOX News, NPR, etc.; selective full text for 392 U.S. regional newspapers
- Pandia Newsfinder
- Searchable collection of daily news sources including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more.
- The Online News page
- Searchable news collection for the past 5 days from sources around the world; Hot Topics section offers a browsable collection in 300+ topics.
- Westlaw Campus
- Includes the full text of local, national, and international newspapers; journals; magazines; broadcast transcripts; and newswires.
- The World News Network
- Searchable collection of news sources and updated news stories from around the world organized into regional and topical categories.
News Archives
- Brooklyn Eagle, 1841-1902
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published as a daily newspaper for 114 consecutive years, from 1841 to 1902, without missing a single edition. At one point the Eagle actually became the nation's most widely read afternoon newspaper. Unusual among major metropolitan daily newspapers of that time period, the Eagle chronicled national and international affairs as well as local news and daily life in Brooklyn. An excellent primary source for nineteenth century events.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Visitors to this website may "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." The Newspaper Directory allows users to "search or browse the directory of newspapers published in a particular place and time." This site is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Annotation: Copyright 2007 by Librarians' Internet Index.
- Google: News Archive Search
- This is "an easy way to search and explore historical [news] archives." Some news articles are free, while the remainder are fee-based. Note: Before purchasing news articles, users are cautioned to check with their libraries to see if these articles are already available to them at no added cost. From Google. Annotation: Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index.
- NewsHourIndex
- Read transcripts from the PBS "Online NewsHour" program back to 1995.
- The New York Times
- Full text of The New York Times from 1851 through 2005. The full text of The New York Times from June 1, 1980 on is also available through the University Libraries' subscription to Lexis Nexis Academic.
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- This site is provided by Vanderbilt University and is an archive of major U.S. network evening news broadcasts and special news-related programming. There is no charge for searching the database, but registration is required.
Local News
- Captial Central
- Capital District news site including The Record (Troy), The Saratogian, the Oneida Daily Dispatch and The Community News
- The Daily Gazette
- Online edition of the (Schenectady) Daily Gazette; archived articles since 1997 are available for a fee.
- New York State Newspapers
- A subset of the Custom Newspapers database, provides access to the content of ten NY state regional newspapers, excluding the Albany Capital District. Includes the New York Times and the New York Post from 2002 on.
- timesunion.com
- Online edition of the (Albany) Times Union; archived articles since March, 1986, are available for a fee.
Fact Checking Sites
- FactCheck
- From the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this site "monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases."
- PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter
- Staff at the St. Petersburg Times research statements by politicians and provide ratings on the Truth-O-Meter. Rankings are: True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True, False and Pants on Fire.
Indexes of News Sources
- Abyz News Links
- Searchable index of news sources organized by country; listings include newspapers and broadcast stations, national newswires, foreign news coverage, and links to background information about the country.
- Headline Spot
- Links to hundreds of news sources organized by media type, region, topic and opinion type maintained by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.
- International News Links
- Large collection of newspapers from around the world.
- National Newspaper Index
- Index to the Christian Science Monitor (1979+), Los Angeles Times (1982+), New York Times (1979+) and Washington Post (1977+).
- NewsDirectory
- Searchable database of newspapers and magazines worldwide.
- Newslink
- Links to hundreds of newspapers and campus papers around the world from the American Journalism Review; U.S. and Canadian newspapers are listed by category and by state or province.
- News Voyager
- Searchable collection of newspapers, college newspapers, news archives, newspaper groups and associations worldwide.
- Newspapers.com
- Index of many types of newspapers on the Internet.
- TotalNEWS
- Searchable index of current news and links to news sources worldwide.
- World-newspapers.com
- Searchable directory of online world newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English.
