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Newspapers Guide

A guide to finding Newspapers in Vogel Library and online.

Newspapers in the Databases

These databases have a wide variety of news publications:

Newspaper Source Plus
News content from newspapers, newswires, magazines, and radio and television transcripts.
ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles.
Nexis Uni
News articles plus business, legal, medical, company, and reference information. Some full-text.

These links search one or a small number of publications:

Wall Street Journal (1984 - Current)
Wall Street Journal access from 1984 to the present (some full text). Plus indexed articles from 31 national newspapers (most coverage starts in early 90's).

Google News will search many sources at once

Two ways to get to Google News:

If you start in the Google News interface:

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If you switched to "News" from the main Google page:

If the limiters do not automatically appear, click "Tools" to have the option to set date, relevancy, etc.

Pros:

Freely available online (no clicks into a library database)
Easy to use

Cons:

Cannot access priced content
- Often asked to pay to read entire article
- In Fall of 2019, follow the story of Google refusing to pay for news previews in Europe
Secret algorithms routinely skew biased in some form
- Ranked syndicated content (can be biased towards owner) over original
- Promoted Climate Change denials
- The good news is that when called out on these issues, Google usually changes for the better

Google News
Note the Pros and Cons above

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