News Sources

News Databases

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Our most comprehensive news source, including the full-text of hundreds of national, regional, and local newspapers and wire service reports. It also includes transcripts of television and radio news programs.

ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
One of the most comprehensive news databases in the world, ProQuest Global Newstream includes access to over 3000 news sources, including 2,200 newspapers, as well as blogs, podcasts, websites and news wire feeds worldwide.

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Times Topics (The New York Times)
This excellent section of the New York Times website provides a virtual encyclopedia of subjects in the news. "Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published about the subject on NYTimes.com." -- website. Times Topics are organized by "Subjects", "People", "Places" and "Organizations". Click on "Subjects" and browse for the category you are looking for.
Pro Publica
This major news site provides a wealth of quality information on controversial issues.

Directory of News Sources

Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Use this source to identify the major news outlets in the major cities in your state. For example, you can search on a combination of city name, state name, and "newspaper", to get a list of newspapers by city.

National Newspapers

International News Sources

LexisNexis Academic
Use the Search the News box to search Major World Publications.
Times (London)
Le Monde (Paris)

Leading News Magazines

Time
The most important current weekly news magazine. Full text goes all the way back to 1923.
CQ Researcher
Each issue of this sophisticated magazine covers one current, often controversial, news topic
Newsweek
Now only an online publication, it is one of the most important weekly news magazines.
U.S. News & World Report
Since 2010, it is an online only publication. One of the most important weekly news magazines, often with the most in-depth articles compared with Time and Newsweek.

Finding Political Commentary Publications and Sources

There are many excellent ways to find articles in political publications. The links on this guide will help you to search select groups of political commentary publications. It includes links to groups of liberal, centrist, conservative, and religious commentary magazines. Just click the link you want and type in your search topic (i.e. "stem cell research") in a blank search box. To search individual titles, see the select group of political commentary magazines on the News Sources tab.

Search Conservative Political Magazines
This link enables you do searches in a small group of conservative-leaning commentary publications, using Academic Search Ultimate. These include: American Conservative, American Interest, American Spectator, Commentary, First Things, Modern Age, National Affairs, National Interest, and National Review.
Search Liberal Political Magazines
This link enables you do searches in a small group of liberal-leaning commentary publications, using Academic Search Ultimate. These include: American Prospect, Atlantic, Mother Jones, Nation, and The Progressive.
Search Centrist Political Magazines
This link enables you do searches in a small group of (currently) centrist commentary publications, using Academic Search Ultimate. These include: CQ Researcher, National Journal, New Republic, NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly, and Washington Monthly.
Search Religious Commentary Publications
This link enables you do searches in a small group of religious commentary publications from Judeo-Christian perspectives, using Academic Search Utlimate. These include: America, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Commentary, Commonweal, First Things, National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Tikkun, and U.S. Catholic.

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