Research Guides: JOUR 201: News Writing and Reporting I: Other News Sources

Google News

Google News
Google News links to articles from thousands of news publications and magazine. It can be a good place to start your news search, and it's especially useful for comparing headlines across different news sources.
- Tip: Click the arrow on the right side of the search box at the top to access some advanced search options.
- Note: Like regular Google Search, Google News searches just the "surface web," so you'll likely hit paywalls unless you're a subscriber. To get full access to articles from many major news outlets, search publication and article titles in the library sources listed below.

Find News Sources By Title

UMD news databases can be useful for reading current content from major news sources -- including articles assigned in your classes -- without having to pay for a subscription.

Use the UMD Discover Journal Search to find a news source by title. ("Journal" = all periodicals, including newspapers and magazines.)

Find Current News Content

Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) is a large database of news sources, legal information, and business information. Includes full-text news articles from major U.S. and some international newspapers (1970s-present); legal cases and codes; law reviews and journals; country and industry reports; SEC filings, and more. For help, view Nexis Uni tutorials.
National Newspapers Core (ProQuest)
Full-text articles from major U.S. publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Sun (Baltimore), and The Washington Post.

Factiva
WARNING: Data mining and excessive downloading are prohibited and such activities cause the suspension of this service. NOTE: Use of Factiva requires login with University ID and is restricted to only current UMCP staff and students. Factiva recommends using Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher. Full-text access to over 8,000 business sources including the Wall
Street Journal and many other national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, websites, and industry (trade) sources. Covers business news articles in a wide range of topic areas: companies, industries, markets, products, brands, and general financial articles.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Contains full-text articles from over 340 U.S. racial and ethnic minority newspapers, consumer magazines, and some journals published since 1995.
Energy & Environment (E&E) News (Politico)
State, national, and international coverage of environmental and energy-related politics, news, policy, and markets. Use this link to search Environment & Energy Daily, E & E News PM, Greenwire, Climatewire, and Energywire.
New York Times Access Pass
Every student at UMD now has full access to the New York Times website, for free. (This includes Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and the Athletic.) Set up your account at the link.
Even more news databases
Search the title of a major newspaper in the Database Finder search box to see if we have it in another database, or select one of the Newspapers and Periodicals options under the All Database Types dropdown.

Find Historical News Content

With the exception of archives digitized and made publicly available, most of the content on this page is part of the deep web or not online at all, so you'll have to access it through a library database or in person!

Start by looking for digitized copies of historical newspapers in our databases:

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search full text historic content from 94 major U.S. newspapers. Within the database, click Publications at the top to search within a specific newspaper.
Publications include:
New York Times (1851 - 2020)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Baltimore Sun (1837-1989)
Boston Globe (1872-1979)
Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
Christian Science Monitor (1908-2001)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)
Hartford Courant (1764-1984)
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
New York Tribune (1841-1922)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922)
Wall Street Journal (1889-1997)
Washington Post (1877-1998)

Historical Black newspapers from the list above include: Chicago Defender (1909-1975); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991); Norfolk Journal & Guide (1921-2003); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
Chronicling America contains millions of newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the United States published through 1963. Cultural heritage institutions apply for and receive awards to select and digitize newspaper pages representing the history, geographic coverage, and events of note for their state or territory.
Even more historical newspapers
Browse all 63 of our historical newspaper databases