Free Online News
Virtually all individual newspapers and broadcast media have websites. But how much content they allow varies greatly. For instance, New York Times used to allow free access back to 1996, but April 2011 they started charging after 10 articles/month. The Seattle Times used to be free, but now is subscription-based. Sigh...
- Google News
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Use Google to sift through online news articles, vs going to an individual media outlet - NPR: National Public Radio
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Free access to their audio stories, and most of the time their transcripts, back to 1997.
Newspapers & News Magazines
Hopefully the news organization you will be working for has purchased access to LexisNexis and other databases for news articles. Large news organizations will also have their own digital and/or print archive, or morgue, of their prior stories.
Just Newspapers
- Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowWorldwide news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Includes access to over 140 Washington state newspapers including the Seattle Times and Spokesman-Review.
- U.S. Newsstream (ProQuest) -- 1980-present This link opens in a new windowCurrent and archival access to U.S. news featuring key national and regional sources, from 1980s to present.
- Global Newsstream (ProQuest) -- 1980-current This link opens in a new windowSearch the most recent global news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s. News from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
- US Major Dailies (ProQuest)Limit your search to just 5 major dailies: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post
- US West Newsstream (ProQuest)Limit your search to around 100 newspapers in 8 Western states: WA, OR, CA, ID, AK, UT, NV, HI.
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowSelected full-text articles from U.S. newspapers, along with over one million radio and television transcripts.
- Newswires (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowArticles from the Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Coverage only goes back one calendar year.
Videos
Want to brush up on a topic by watching/listening to a video?
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, feature films, performances, interviews, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage.
- Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new windowOn-demand streaming video collection that has over 26,000 films and documentaries. Can search by topic.
- footage.net
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Search across hundreds of video sites: tv news, archival, etc. Site then sends you to the original site to view the video (or buy it). - CNN.com
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All the television news channels have websites with video content. CNN's appears to go back to the early 2000s. - BBC News
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Mix of videos and textual stories. Archive goes back to 2000. - Google Video
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Searches YouTube, Vimeo and some other free video sources all at once. Click Search Tools to choose the length of time of video you’re looking for, when posted, quality, whether close-captioned, or specific source. - Moving Image Archive
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Over 2 million videos from a variety of sources.