Library Guides: JOUR/ES 125: Environment, the Public and Mass Media: Current and Historic News

News/Wire Services

Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides news coverage from a wide variety of global news outlets.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
Database from LexisNexis® featuring more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Primarily in English but some foreign language news as well.
U.S. Major Dailies newspapers This link opens in a new window
Access to The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal, updated by 8 a.m. Eastern time each day.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines.

Morning Call This link opens in a new window
Coverage from 1984 through today, including full-text, web-only content and full-color image edition.
New York Times (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times (June 1980 to present), New York Times Online (full text March 2015 to present), New York Times Magazine and Book Review (January 1997 to present), updated daily on ProQuest.
Philadelphia Inquirer Collection (Current access) This link opens in a new window
Coverage from 1981 through today, including full-text, web-only content and full-color image edition.
Covers 1981-present.
Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) This link opens in a new window
Includes current issue of the WSJ as well as articles back to 1984.

Google News Archive
Free access to newspapers digitized by Google, including many historical papers. May not be full runs.

New York Times (Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Can be a useful place to look for coverage of 19th and 20th Century events. The database covers from 1851 to 2010.
Covers Sept. 18, 1851 to 3 years before the current year
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source newspaper materials searches cover-to-cover of the full-text contents for hundreds of 19th century U.S. papers. Coverage dates vary by title.
Dates vary for individual newspapers, however the entire database covers 1800-1899
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes the following newspapers: Christian Recorder, Colored American, Freedom's Journal, Frederick Douglass Paper, Douglass Monthly, National Era, North Star, Provincial Freeman
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Produced by the Library of Congress, covers 1836 - 1922

Need to find a historical televsion or radio program? Try searching in these sources.

British Pathe Archives
Contains audio clips of news, sports, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970s. Still frames or "storyboards of clips" are free, but registration is required for the free previews.
CBC Digital Archives
Contains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
National Public Broadcasting and Library of American Broadcasting
The University of Maryland's Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture holds a wide-ranging collection of resources documenting the history of radio and television broadcasting. Important collections include the National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) and the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB).
Moving Image Research Collection
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) strives to preserve our global moving image heritage, diversify understandings of moving image culture, and envision a better future by encouraging new interpretations of the recent past. MIRC began in 1980 with the gift of the Fox Movietone News Collection.
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Since then, archival holdings have increased to an estimated 6000 hours of material, including local television news and commercials, home movies, micro-cinematographic nature films, and fiction and documentary films from the People's Republic of China.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Contains individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.