Current News & Newspapers

Domestic Current News & Online Historical Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive See state by state coverage under the "Title List."

Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.

African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.

AJR News Sources: Newspapers An index of both U.S. and international newspapers, which is searchable in useful ways such as by state, by country, and by type (daily, campus, major metro, etc.).

Alternative Press Index Citations to articles of 5 or more paragraphs from approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications.

AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.

APS Online: American Periodical Series I, II & III Digitized images of articles from over 1100 American periodicals published between 1741 and 1900.

ArchivesUSA Bibliographic records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript repositories from throughout the United States.

Associated Press From this site, choose an AP member by location to receive the latest news.

Chicago Defender Available as part of the Black Studies Center. Currently available: full text of issues from 1935-1975.

Chicago Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and complete content from 1849 through the 1980s.

Chicago Tribune (1985-present)

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers "... search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Sponsored by NEH and the Library of Congress.

Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as full text-searchable facsimile images.”

Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text articles and bibliographic information from over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals, with interfaces both in English and in Spanish.

Factiva Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU.

Historical Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The Times of London and the New York Times.

Illinois Newspaper Project Database Database of newspaper titles and holdings information at Illinois Libraries.

LexisNexis Academic Click "News" near the top left of the screen. For non-English news, select "Non English-language News, World Library" from the Sources pull-down list.

Los Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years)
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Los Angeles Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1881) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

New York Times (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see NYT.

New York Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1851) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

Newspaper Abstracts Citations and abstracts of major articles from the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Incorporates the Index to Black Newspapers.

Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.

NPR Archives

Radical Press in the 60s Exhibit

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual 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 since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).

U.S. News Archives on the Web

Wall Street Journal (Today and Recent Years) Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years.

Wall Street Journal (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1889) through about the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

Washington Post (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1877) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

Washington Post (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see the Post.

International Current News & Online Historical Newspapers

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library’s collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)–the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.

AllAfrica.com News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.

AJR News Sources: Newspapers An index of both U.S. and international newspapers, which is searchable in useful ways such as by state, by country, and by type (daily, campus, major metro, etc.).

BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database

China Core Newspapers Chinese language periodicals. From the year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics as well. These are predominately in Chinese, some English, some both.

EUFeeds Provides access to more than 300 papers from the European Union, updated every 20 minutes. Defaults to UK newspapers; click on flag to browse media from other EU nations. See, also, the sponsor European Journalism Centre: journalists working for journalists

Foreign Press Sources, their Home Pages, & Auto-Translations A list from WatchingAmerica.com which includes auto-translations or English versions of foreign presses (e.g., Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Messa, Diaro Decuyo).

Historical Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The Times of London and the New York Times.

Japan Knowledge A full-text interdisciplinary database which includes current news, and an archive of news and video recordings (1908-2005); dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; sound and music libraries; full-text books and chronologies; dictionaries of language, biography, scientific terms, etc.; encyclopedias (e.g., the 30 vol. Nihon daihyakka zensho (Nipponica)); and more.

Latin American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering political, security, economic and strategic issues as well as general news.

LexisNexis Academic Click "News" near the top left of the screen. For non-English news, select "Non English-language News, World Library" from the Sources pull-down list.

Le Monde

Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.

News and Newspapers Online Excellent source maintained by the University of North Carolina. Lists sites that cover regions, followed by titles listed by country, then alphabetically within regions.

Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.

Online Newspapers from Around the World Excellent listings by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Papers listed by region, by country within region, by states or provinces within country.

Opinion-Pages Search engine providing access to opinion and editorials in newspapers from all over the world.

People's Daily: Ren min ri bao Contains all issues from 1946 through 2007. To access the current issues, go to China Core Newspapers. "[B]rings you the latest news dispatches of policy information and resolutions of the Chinese Government and major domestic news and international news releases from China."

Times of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles and complete content of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.

Watching America: Foreign Press Accounts WatchingAmerica reflects what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S., by providing foreign press articles including many translated into English.

Western European News and Newspapers, Selected, Current

World Front Pages Over 500 current front pages from over 52 countries.

World News Connection (WNC) A CIA service which translates foreign press into English, and a continuation of the FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. Full-text and searchable from the mid 1990's to the present. Earlier dates on microfilm.

Die Zeit See, too, the digitized archive of all back issues dating from the 1940s to present.