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Last revised: July, 2009

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.

Electronic Newspapers
International Newspapers
WebFirst/WebOnly Sources
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.)

Historical Newspapers

Listed here are a few important Web-based historical newspaper collections:

Maryland State Archives/Maryland Newspapers
The Black Press (Newspapers & Biographies)
The British Library
The Library of Congress
United States Newspaper Project

Media Directories/Metasites

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.

News Directory.com

This site provides a guide to English-language media online.

Newspaper Links.Com

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

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.

The Paperboy.com

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.

Archives: Newspapers and Television

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.

News & Current Events Databases

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 available to anyone on campus. Off campus the user must sign in with his/her UM ID and password.

Baltimore Sun
CQ Weekly Report
Factiva (Dow Jones)
Ethnic Newswatch

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Wall Street Journal
World News Connection

Online News Magazines

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

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

Examples of Online Magazines

Aviation Week & Space Technology
The Crisis
Far Eastern Economic Review
Forbes
The Lancet
The Nation
National Geographic

New York Magazine
Salon Magazine
Science Magazine
Technology Review
T.V. Guide
U.S. News
Utne Reader

News Headlines: Newswires, Broadcast Networks and Real Audio & Video

Newswires

Newswires electronically distribute top national and international stories and up-to-the-minute news.

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.

FOX News | FOX News Video
MSNBC News | MSNBC TV
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:

The White House News and Policies

Dept. of Agriculture
Dept. of Commerce | U.S. Census Bureau
Dept. of Defense
Dept. of Education
Department of Energy
Dept. of Health & Human Services
Dept. of Housing & Urban Development

Dept. of the Interior
Dept. of Justice
Dept. of Labor
Dept. of State
Dept. of Transportation
Dept. of the Treasury | U.S. Customs
Dept. of Veterans Affairs

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

Weather & Traffic News

Consult these sites for the latest weather and traffic news:

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.)

CNN Financial News
CNN News
CRAYON
Google Groups
Individual.com

My Excite
My Lycos
My Netscape
My Yahoo!