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.
- FactivaSubscription.
Coverage: Current. Back to 1980s for some titles. Primarily business news. Plain text. English. The News Pages section shows articles from eight major news sources (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) for the last two weeks. - Library PressDisplayProQuest. Subscription.
Full-color PDFs. Coverage: latest 90 days. Many languages. - Nexis UniCoverage: roughly 1980 to date. Includes television and radio transcripts. Plain text. In Western European languages.
- 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.