Last revised: September, 2010

News Sources on the Web

Scope: This guide provides links to a variety of news sources on the Web. See also the News: Indexing, Abstracting and Full-Text Sources guide for additional resources for accessing news topics, or e-mail the subject specialist librarian, Maggie Saponaro for more information.

Table of Contents

• Electronic Newspapers
• International Newspapers
• WebFirst/WebOnly Sources
• Historical Newspapers
• Aggregated News Sources
• 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
• Local (Maryland/D.C.) News Resources
• Personalized News
• Other News Sources (UM news, cartoons, associations, archives etc.)

Japan Times
Montreal Gazette
Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Das Parlament
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Haaretz (English version)

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Arizona Guardian
Baltimore Brew
Chicago Reader
Christian Science Monitor
Daily Beast
Drudge Report
Global Post
Huffington Post
Investigative Voice (Baltimore)
Noows (Germany)
ProPublica
Salon
San Francisco Public Press
Slate
Texas Tribune
Texas Watchdog
Voice of San Diego

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The Black Press (Newspapers & Biographies)
The British Library
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (From the Library of Congress)
Maryland State Archives/Maryland Newspapers
United States Newspaper Project

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Media directories/metasites provide access to a vast array of media available online:

AJR News Sources

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.

Abyz News Links

Links to over 15,600 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.

Kidon Media Link

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.

Newspaperindex.com

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.

News Voyager.Com

A meta-site produced by the Newspaper Association of America. Newspapers can be searched by state and/or by name.

The Paperboy.com

From Australia, this site provides access to over 6,300 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.

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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.

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The University of Maryland Libraries have subscriptions (or site licensing agreements) to the following news and current events databases, accessed through ResearchPort on the Library's home page. Access is available to anyone on campus. If you are attempting to use these databases from remote locations (off campus), you can do so by logging in with your UMD userid and password. For more information regarding off-campus access, see the off-campus access directions.

America's Historical Newspapers - Coverage from 1690-1922 Baltimore Sun (Current coverage) and Historical Coverage (1837-1985) CQ Weekly Report Ethnic Newswatch Factiva (Dow Jones)

LexisNexis Academic New York Times (1999-Current) and Historical Coverage (1889-1992) Wall Street Journal (1984-Current) and Historical Coverage (1889-1992) Washington Post (1987-Current) and Historical Coverage (1877-1988) World News Connection

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Directories

Dogpile.com
MagPortal.com
PubList.com
Yahoo! - Magazines

Examples of Online Magazines

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Broadcast Networks & Real Audio/Video

Broadcast network Websites provide late breaking news, weather, sports and entertainment stories. See also the Local News Resources section of this guide for additional local news resources.

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The White House - Click on "Briefing Room"

Links to other U.S. government and foreign news sources:

All Politics (CNN & Time Magazine)
Documents in the News - Current Events Research (University of Michigan)
Roll Call (Newspaper)
United Nations News Centre
U.S. Government News (FCIC Gateway)

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Local (Maryland/D.C.) News Sources

Consult these sites for information from Maryland/D.C. broadcast and news radio sources. See the Broadcast Networks section of this guide for national sources.

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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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Editorial Cartoons, Comic Strips, News Parodies
Comic Strips (Yahoo!)
News Parodies (Yahoo!)
Today's Best Cartoons - From Slate.Com

Associations, Archives, Museums and Special Collections

Library of American Broadcasting (UM Libraries)
National Archives & Records Administration: What's New
National Press Club
National Public Broadcasting Archives (UM Libraries)
Newseum

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