News Resources

• News Databases
• General News
• Higher Education News
• Virginia News
• Collections of News Sources

News Databases

(W&M only)

Current:

• factiva (Dow-Jones & Reuters)
  Newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals; business and general interest publications. Also includes the full text for the last two weeks of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and several other major newspapers.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  Search for news stories in hundreds of US and international newspapers and magazines.
• Newspaper Source Plus
  Index to about 560 U.S. and international newspapers, with full text for many.  Also includes TV and radio transcripts.
  
  

Historical:

• 19th Century US Newspapers (Thomson Gale)
  Cover-to-cover digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
• America's Historical Newspapers inc. Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) (Newsbank/Readex)
  Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers
• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
  Full page and article images with searchable full text
• The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Accessible Archives)
  Full text of major articles from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
• Los Angeles Times (LA Times), 1881-1986
  Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• New York Times, 1851-2006 (Proquest)
  Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (Accessible Archives)
• Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 (Thomson Gale)
  Does not include the Sunday Times (London)
• Wall Street Journal, 1889-1992 (Proquest)
  Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Washington Post, 1877-1993 (Proquest)
  Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

 

General News

BBC News Online The Boston Globe Chicago Sun-Times Christian Science Monitor CNN Los Angeles Times Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune MSNBC New York Times Online Newshour (Public Broadcasting System)

The Philadelphia Inquirer San Francisco Examiner The Times/Sunday Times (London, UK) USA Today Vanderbilt Television News Archive Washington Post Washington Times World News Connection (W&M only) Yahoo News

Higher Education News

College and University Newspapers (Yahoo)

Virginia

Christopher Newport University News William & Mary News (College of William and Mary) Broadside (George Mason University) Mason Gazette (George Mason University) The Breeze (James Madison University) Old Dominion University News

The Tartan (Radford University) Collegian Online (University of Richmond) Cavalier Daily (University of Virginia) UVA Today (University of Virginia) Collegiate Times (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Washington & Lee News The Trident (Washington & Lee)

Virginia News

Gateway Virginia (news, sports, classifieds, weather for the Commonwealth) VirginiaBusiness.com Virginia Newspaper Project (Library of Virginia) Localities: Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William Journal Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bristol Herald-Courier Charlottesville: Daily Progress Charlottesville: NBC 29 (WVIR-TV) Clinch Valley News: Richlands News-Press Culpeper Star-Exponent Danville Register & Bee

Free Lance-Star News (Fredericksburg) Hampton Roads: Daily Press | Archives Hampton Roads: Pilot Online | Archives Lexington: The News-Gazette Lynchburg: News & Advance Manassas Journal-Messenger Martinsville Bulletin Prince William: Potomac News Rappahannock Record Richmond.com Richmond Times-Dispatch | Archives Richmond: WWBT-12 News Online Roanoke Times | Archives Staunton: Daily News Leader Strasburg: Shenandoah.com Warrenton: Fauquier Citizen Waynesboro: News-Virginian Williamsburg: Virginia Gazette Williamsburg Yorktown Daily

Collections of News Sources

• ABYZ News Links -- Links to more than 16,400 newspapers and other news sources from around the world.
• Foreign Language News and Newspapers -- MIT (languages other than English)
• New Jour (archive of the list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet)
• Newspaper and Current Periodical Room (Library of Congress)
• News and Newspapers Online (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• Newspapers and News Services (University of Virginia)
• Newspapers in Latin America (Latin American Network Information Center--LANIC)
• Selected Western European Newspapers and News Sources (ACRL)
• Television News Archive - Vanderbilt University
• Virginia Newspaper Project
• WatchingAmerica.com (Articles about America translated from foreign newspapers)