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This guide highlights the Libraries' online subscription news services and selected news sites on the Web.
Last update: Feb 04th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.luc.edu/news  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Focus on Alternative News Sources

Selected News Web Sites

  • BBC World News Service  
      
    International radio broadcaster from the United Kingdom.
  • CNN  
      
    News web site for the Cable News Network.
  • National Public Radio (NPR)  
      
    National Public Radio produces and distributes noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. It is a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization.
  • SCOLA  
      
    A non-profit educational organization that receives and re-transmits television programming from around the word in native languages.
  • Voice of America  
      
    The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational
  • World News Network  
      
    The World News (WN) Network was founded in 1995 and launched online in 1998, with the primary objective of being the most comprehensive, one-stop news resource on the Internet. Today, World News has over 20,000 global thematic and regional news sites - en
  • World Press Review  
      
    English-language digest of international press coverage.

Current Issues

  • CQ Researcher  
    Weekly reports on topics and issues covered in the news. Provides background information, relevant statistics, pro/con statements, recommended reading, and more.
  • Access World News -- Special Reports  
    NewsBank's Special Reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested search terms. New

Local Interest

 

Online Newspaper Subscriptions

  • Chicago Sun Times (1986 - )  
    Complete electronic full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
  • Chicago Tribune (1985 - )  
    Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
  • New York Times (2000 - )  
    Full-text electronic edition of the New York Times from 2000-current issue. For older issues, see the Historical edition. Advertisements are not included.

Subscription News Services

  • Access World News  
    Access World News provides extensive coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international.
  • Factiva  
    Over 6,000 full-text newspapers and trade journals. Company, industry, country and market research reports. Histories on securities, dividends and exchange rates.
  • LexisNexis  
    Access over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources.
  • Mideastwire.com  
    A daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
  • Newspaper Source  
    Provides selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers including: The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Times (London), and The Christian Science Monitor. Includes full text television & radio news transcripts.

Newspaper Archives

Newspaper Images

  • AP Images (Associated Press)  
      
    One of the largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment.
  • Historical Newspapers (Proquest)  
      
    Includes the Chicago Tribune (1890-1985), the Chicago Defender (1905 -1975), and the New York Times (1850-2001). Use the "more options" feature to limit to illustrations or photographs.
  • Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933  
    Includes 55,000 images captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers of the Chicago Daily News.

Online Newspaper Directories

 

Print Newspaper Directories

  • Bacon’s Newspaper Directory
    Call Number: Lewis Ready Reference HD 59 .B32
    A directory of daily and weekly newspapers news services syndicates.
 

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