Current Events: Newspapers and News Media
Be an active news user: Evaluate the news you are reading.
The online databases below link to online news sources or provide searchable access to multiple news providers.
- Access World NewsCoverage and format: Current, from roughly the mid-1980s on (start dates vary widely). Over 7,000 newspapers and newswires, including some web-only titles. 100+ titles now available in color PDFs.
- ProQuest Digitized Newspapers and ProQuest Recent Newspapers [aka PQDN or RNP].Subscription.
Ten major newspaper titles are linked from the ProQuest Digitized Newspapers home page.
Ten more U.S. titles are part of the Recent Newspapers US Stand-alone collection.
Five additional multi-title Regional Collections covering 41 newspapers are cataloged as ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Regional Collections.
Coverage for all titles starts from either 1/1/2008, 1/1/2009, 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011, or 1/1/2012 with a multi-day embargo on full text. Full text is primarily publisher PDFs backed by full text searching of OCRed text. Newer dates have direct searching of publisher's text feed.