Research by Subject: Journalism & Media Studies: Articles: Newspapers & News Sources

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ProQuest US Newsstream
U.S. and international newspapers.
California Newspapers from NewsBank
Includes over 470 historical and current California Newspapers, including the San Diego Union Tribune.
NewsBank Collections
International and U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, people, the arts, health, and science issues and events.

Includes current access to the San Diego Union Tribune by clicking on the "USA-California" link from the main page.
Access World News Historical and Current
Includes 11,688 Sources, dates vary by title. List of Sources

Alt-PressWatch
Alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Newspaper, magazine and journal articles from ethnic, minority and native presses.
GenderWatch
Journal articles, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports dealing with the impact of gender on a broad spectrum of subject areas.
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Life Full Text
Journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs.

ProQuest US Newsstream
U.S. and international newspapers. To find transcripts:
• Type the key words about your topic, in the first box.
• Select "Transcript" from the "Document type" drop down menu.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline. Free to use, but user must register. Video tapes can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
News and Public Affairs - Internet Archive
"Alternative independent radio news programming is featured here. In addition to a host of intriguing radio news shows, this collection features the Presidential Recordings collection of historical speeches and secret recordings."
TV News - Internet Archive
"The research library contains more than 893,000 news programs collected over 4+ years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added.
Use the index of searchable text and short, streamed clips to find programs to borrow on DVD-ROM or view at the Internet Archive’s library in San Francisco."

Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Cover-to-cover full-image archive, 1881-1993.
New York Times 1851 - 2014 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Cover-to-cover full-image archive.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
America's Historical Newspapers
Chronicles the evolution of American history, culture and daily life through thousands of historical newspapers from all 50 states.

San Diego

San Diego Union 1871-1988
Digitized coverage from Newsbank from March 20, 1871 until October 31, 1988.
San Diego Evening Tribune 1895-1985
Earliest issue: December 03, 1895
Latest issue: December 31,1985
Note: Issues published within the date range may be missing. Efforts to locate and add any such missing issues are ongoing.
San Diego Union-Tribune Historical and Current 1895-current
The San Diego Union-Tribune is the product of a merger of the San Diego Union, founded in 1868, and the Evening Tribune, founded in 1895. It is the second-oldest newspaper in Southern California, and the oldest business in San Diego County.

Other historical newspaper collections

Center for Research Libraries News Collection
"[N]ewspapers from all regions of the world; and collections of scripts, transcripts, and translations of news reports, produced or compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation, CBS, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Voice of America." Major strengths are: African American newspapers, Civilian Conservation Corp. Camp papers, Underground and alternative press, U.S. ethnic newspapers.
All newspapers can be searched in CRL’s catalog. Collections on microfilm may be borrowed through ILL.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
"Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to 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."
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
Online archive from the University of Arizona that documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

Reader's Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
Popular general-interest periodicals, including news magazines, published in the United States.

NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers
Search for online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
Trove: digitised newspapers and more
"[A]ccess to over 18.5 million pages from over 1000 Australian newspapers. Newly digitised articles are added daily. Digitised newspapers and more on Trove includes newspapers from each state and territory and from the earliest published newspaper in 1803, to the mid-20th century, including some community language newspapers."