Last revised: July, 2007
News Sources on the Web
Scope: This guide provides links to a variety of news sources on the Web. Email the subject specialist librarian, Robert Garber or call 301-405-9281 for more information.
Table of Contents
- Electronic Newspapers
- International Newspapers
- Historical Newspapers
- Media Directories/Metasites
- Archives: Newspapers and Television
- News & Current Events Databases
- Online News Magazines
- News Headlines (Newswires and Broadcast Networks and Real Audio/Video)
- Government News Sources
- Weather & Traffic News
- Personalized News
- Other News Sources (UM news, cartoons, associations, archives etc.)
Electronic Newspapers
Listed here are the top 50 daily newspapers circulated in the United States, according to Editor & Publisher 2005. The news coverage published in electronic editions of newspapers may vary as compared to their print counterparts. For additional newspapers and other kinds of media see Media Directories/Metasites.International Newspapers
Japan Times
Listed here are a few important Web-based historical newspaper collections:
Maryland State Archives/Maryland Newspapers
Media directories/metasites provide access to a vast array of media available online: This site, from the American Journalism Review, provides 8,000 links to newspapers (arranged by geographic location), college papers, magazines, radio and television stations, and news services worldwide. Provides links to many other types of information including fulltext articles from AJR, job notices and awards. Links to over 15,600 newspapers and other news sources from around the world. Provides extensive links to newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, film studios, news agencies and related Web sites. Arranged by media type and geographic area. This site provides a guide to English-language media online. A meta-site produced by the Newspaper Association of America. Newspapers can be searched by state and/or by name. Newspaperindex.com provides links to newspapers and
publications that contain local, free and independent news from each
country in the world. It does not provide an exhaustive list of
sources. This site has links to some broadcast networks and maintains
a blog concerned with media topics. From Australia, this site provides access to approximately 2851 newspapers from 112 countries daily. News and Media Listings (Yahoo!)
Provides links to newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, regional business papers and college and university papers.
News: Indexing, Abstracting and Full-text Sources (UM Librairies)
This guide (developed at the University of Maryland Libraries), provides indexing, abstracting and full-text sources for locating news. The print and electronic sources are available at the University of Maryland Libraries.
U.S. News Archives on the Web (Special Libraries Association)
Newspapers are arranged by state, providing coverage of the archive and retrieval costs.
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)
Provides indexing to national television news programs from 1968 to the present. Videotapes of programs are available for loan from the archive.
The University of Maryland Libraries have subscriptions (or site licensing agreements) to the following news and current events databases:
Now, many magazine titles are available both in print and online (for a subscription price), while others exist free and are available only on the Web:
Directories
Examples of Online Magazines
Montreal Gazette
Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Das Parlament
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Haaretz (English version)
Historical Newspapers
The Black Press (Newspapers & Biographies)
The British Library
The Library of Congress
United States Newspaper Project
Media Directories/Metasites
AJR News Sources
Archives: Newspapers and Television
News & Current Events Databases
Baltimore Sun
CQ Weekly Report
Factiva (Dow Jones)
Ethnic Newswatch
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Wall Street Journal
World News Connection
Online News Magazines
Dogpile.com
MagPortal.com
PubList.com
Yahoo! - Magazines
News Headlines: Newswires, Broadcast Networks and Real Audio & Video
Newswires
Newswires electronically distribute top national and international stories and up-to-the-minute news.
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Agence France-Presse Associated Press Business Wire PR Newswire |
Reuters U.S. Newswire VOA - Voice of America World News Forecast |
Broadcast Networks & Real Audio/Video
Broadcast network Web sites provide late breaking news, weather, sports and entertainment stories.
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ABC News | ABC News Radio BBC News | BBC News CBC News | CBC Newsworld CBS News | Click on CBS News C-SPAN | C-SPAN Video & Audio |
FOX News | FOX News Video MSNBC News | MSNBC Video News NPR Online | Click on RealAudio PBS NewsHour | Click on NewsHour Index |
Government News Sources
Many U.S. government departments have Web sites that provide news, hot topics and press releases:
Links to other U.S. government and foreign news sources:
All Politics (CNN & Time Magazine)
Consult these sites for the latest weather and traffic news:
Documents in the News - Current Events Research (University of Michigan)
Roll Call (Newspaper)
United Nations News Centre
Weather & Traffic News
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Intellicast.com Traffic Cams (Yahoo!) U.S. National Weather Service Weather.com - The Weather Channel |
WeatherOnline WeatherPost The Weather Underground Yahoo! Weather |
Personalized News
These sites allow you to sign-up and personalize the kind of news, stock quotes, weather, business and investment information, etc. that you want to receive, all in one place.
(Please note: Personalize your news pages on your own home or office computer, and not on library or WAM Lab workstations.)
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CNN Financial News CNN News CRAYON Desktop News (PUSH technology) Google Groups Individual.com |
My Excite My Lycos My Netscape My Yahoo! News Alert |
Other News Sources
News Sources at the University of Maryland
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Black Explosion (Newspaper) Capital News Service College Park International (Newsletter) The Diamondback (Newspaper) Maryland Newsline (UM College of Journalism) |
Outlook Online (Newspaper) UM Library Newsletters UM News Releases UMTV (Television) WMUC-FM Radio |
Editorial Cartoons, Comic Strips, News Parodies
Comic Strips (Yahoo!)
News Parodies (Yahoo!)
Associations, Archives, Museums and Special Collections
Broadcast Pioneers - Library of American Broadcasting (UM Libraries)
National Archives & Records Administration: What's New
National Press Club
National Public Broadcasting Archives (UM Libraries)
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