Journalism

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Television
  
  The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays. It examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends. It also includes histories of major television networks and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. ... []

News sources

• 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers (see Seventeenth-eighteenth 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. gkldjgl;kj;l ... []
• 19th century British Library newspapers (see Nineteenth century British Library newspapers)
  
• 19th century UK periodicals (see Nineteenth century UK periodicals)
  
  "When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles ... of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions ..."--"About" page. ... []
• 20th century American newspapers (see America’s historical newspapers)
  
• Accessible archives
  
  Provides selected text from newspaper collections: Pennsylvania gazette (1728-1800); The Civil War: a newspaper perspective (Nov. 1860-Apr. 1865); African American newspapers: the 19th century; The Liberator (1831-1865); The Virginia Gazette (1736-1780), and others. This is a growing collection. ... []
• African American Newspapers: the 19th Century (see Accessible archives)
  
  African American newspapers: the 19th century is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
• America's historical newspapers
  
  A growing collection allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1998 [and beyond], including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others. ... []
• Atlanta constitution (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1868-1945
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for The Constitution (1868-1869), The Atlanta constitution (1869-1875), The Atlanta daily constitution (1875), The Constitution (1875-1876), The Daily constitution (1876-1881), and The Atlanta constitution (1881-1945). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Atlanta daily world (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1931-2003
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Boston globe (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1872-1981
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Boston daily globe (1872-1960) and Boston globe (1960-1981). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Chicago defender (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1910-1975
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Chicago defender, Big weekend ed. (1910-1966); Chicago defender, National ed. (1921-1967); Daily defender, Daily ed. (1956-1960); Chicago daily defender, Daily ed. (1960-1973); Chicago daily defender, Big weekend ed. (1966-1973); Chicago defender, Big weekend ed. (1973-1975); and Chicago defender , Daily ed. (1973-1975). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Chicago tribune (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1849-1988
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Chicago daily tribune (1849-1858), Chicago press and tribune (1858-1860), Chicago tribune (1860-1872), Chicago daily tribune (1872-1963), and Chicago tribune (1963-1988). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Christian Science monitor (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1908-1998
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text from the Christian Science monitor (1908-1925); Christian Science monitor, Atlantic ed. (1925-1960); Christian Science monitor, Eastern ed. (1960-1983); and Christian Science monitor (1983-1998). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Chronicling America
  
  Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
• Cincinnati enquirer (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1841-1922
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Daily Cincinnati enquirer (1841-1843), Enquirer and message (1843-1844), Daily enquirer and message (1844-1845), Cincinnati daily enquirer (1845-1849), Cincinnati enquirer (1849-1852), Cincinnati daily enquirer (1852-1872), and Cincinnati enquirer (1872-1922). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Civil War: a Newspaper perspective (see Accessible archives)
  
  Civil War: a Newspaper perspective is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
• CQ global researcher
  
  Coverage: Reports dating back to 1923
  Provides coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints and a comprehensive snapshot of today's most pressing issues. ... []
• Detroit free press (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1831-1922
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Democratic Free Press & Michigan Intelligencer (1831-1832), Democratic Free Press (1832-1842), Semi Weekly Free Press (1837-1837), Detroit Free Press (1837-1841), Daily Free Press (1842-1842), Detroit Daily Free Press (1842-1842), Democratic Free Press (1842-1848), Detroit Free Press (1848-1851), Detroit Daily Free Press (1851-1858), and Detroit Free Press (1858-1922). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Early American newspapers (see America's historical newspapers)
  
  "... allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others ..."--"About" page. ... []
• Ethnic newsWatch
  
  Coverage: 1959-
  Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S.
• Factiva
  
  Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users. Access info: Historically Factiva only worked with IE version 5 or higher. Since then, several other browser options have been added. ... []
  Classroom Instruction (for training classes only)
  
• Guardian and The observer (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1791-2003
• Illustrated London news historical archive, 1842-2003
  
  "access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations." ... []
• Journalism.org
  
  A website of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, attempting "to understand the performance of the news media and the revolution transforming information. It specializes in using empirical methods, particularly content analysis." Includes: The state of the news media : an annual report on American journalism.--FAQ. ... []
• LexisNexis academic
  
  Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc. ... []
• Liberator (see Accessible archives)
  
  Liberator is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
• London Times digital archive, 1785-1985 (see Times digital archive, 1785-1985)
  
  A complete digital archive of The Times (London), including every article, advertisement and illustration.
• Los Angeles sentinel (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1934-2005
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Los Angeles sentinel (1934-2005). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Los Angeles times (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1881-1988
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Los Angeles daily times (1881-1886) and The Los Angeles times (1886-1988). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• NBC learn
  
  NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, makes the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities. The website has digitized stories from the NBC News archives -- one of the largest news archives in the world, dating back to the 1920s. In addition, collections are updated with current events every day, Monday through Friday, with stories from such celebrated programs as NBC Nightly News, the TODAY show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, as well as the networks of MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo. There are 26 subject areas from economics to environmental sciences. ... []
• New York Amsterdam news (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1922-1993
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• New York times (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1851-three years before present
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for the New-York daily times (1851-1857) and the New York times (1857-2008). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• New York tribune (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1841-1962
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for New-York tribune (1841-1842), New-York daily tribune (1842-1866), New-York tribune (1866-1924), New York herald, New York tribune (1924-1926), and New York herald tribune (1926-1962). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Nineteenth century British Library newspapers
  
  Searchable full text of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from established country or university towns. ... []
• Nineteenth century UK periodicals
  
  "When complete it will make available full runs of nearly 600 titles ... of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, the professions ..."--"About" page. ... []
• Opposing viewpoints in context
  
  Provides information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. ... []
• Pennsylvania Gazette (see Accessible archives)
  
  Pennsylvania Gazette is a separately searchable part of Accessible archives.
• Pittsburgh courier (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1911-2002
  Provides full page and article images with searchable full text for Pittsburgh courier (1910-1950 : City ed.), Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), Pittsburgh courier (1955-1966 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1966-1981 : City ed.), and New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• ProQuest digital microfilm
  
  Coverage: 2008:Jan.1-
  Digitized newspapers based on microfilm. Full-text articles from the Chicago tribune, New York Times (East Coast, Late ed.), Wall Street journal (Eastern ed.), and Washington post (Final ed.). Browse to specific newspaper, year, month, day, and page to view digitized images. Access info: Click the "Select" link to choose specific newspaper title ... []
• ProQuest historical newspapers
  
  Full text of major English-language newspapers
• San Francisco chronicle (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1865-1922
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Daily dramatic chronicle (1865-1868), Daily morning chronicle (1868-1869), and San Francisco chronicle (1869-1922). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Seventeenth-eighteenth 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. Includes more than 1,200 titles. ... []
• Television news archive
  
  Coverage: 1968- (ABC, CBS, NBC); 1995- (CNN); 2004- (FoxNews)
  Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News. Selected online video content from CNN and NBC viewable with RealPlayer. Descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic & 1/2 inch VHS. format are available for a fee from the Archive. ... []
• Times digital archive, 1785-1985
  
  Searchable database of full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-1985. Digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files. Includes advertisements, illustrations, and photos. ... []
• Twentieth century American newspapers (see America’s Historical Newspapers)
  
• Wall Street journal (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1889-1994
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Wall Street journal (1889-1959) and Wall Street journal, Eastern ed. (1959-). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []
• Washington post (ProQuest historical newspapers)
  
  Coverage: 1877-1996
  Provides full-page and article images with searchable full text for Washington post (1877-1954), Washington post and Times herald (1954-1959), Washington post, Times herald (1959-1973), and Washington post (1974- ). Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ... []

Reviews (book, film, etc.)

• LexisNexis academic
  
  Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc. ... []
• Academic search premier (EBSCO)
  
  Coverage: 1975-
  "multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles."--Provider description. Indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 journals. Search can be limited to book reviews. ... []
• Expanded academic ASAP
  
  Coverage: 1980-
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews. ... []