LibGuides: PUBPOL 301: News/ Media

News Articles

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Search for news, business, legal, medical, and congressional information. Note: formerly named Lexis Nexis Academic.

Strategies for finding…National, regional and international newspapers and news magazines, including New York Times, Washington Post (also available via e-journals)

Choose News in the leftmost box
OR use the Advanced Options next to the main search box to construct a search by dates and source type
Be sure to select dates you wish to search unless you want the default

Strategies for finding…Op-eds , aka “opposite the editorial,” usually written by policy experts or elected officials

Navigate to the Advanced Options next to the main search box and select "Editorials and Opinions" under the news subsection
You will need to distinguish between editorials written by the editors, and opinion pieces

Strategies for finding…Broadcast coverage, including TV and radio newscasts from national networks, cable and syndicated programs; starting dates of coverage vary.

"Broadcast Transcripts" is another type of news type in the advanced menu

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Allows you to choose which newspaper (or other) Proquest databases you wish to search simultaneously.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search for global news and information content, including Dow Jones, Reuters Newswires, and The Wall Street Journal. Text & data mining prohibited by license. See the "more" link for details.
Text and data mining (TDM) of Factiva content is prohibited by license. TDM includes mass downloading of content via scripts (aka scraping) *and* via Factiva's internal tools for downloading content. Please use ProQuest's TDM Studio for text mining.

Historical Newspapers

See the detailed newspapers guide for finding historical newspapers.

Media Trends & Social Media

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Search articles in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Search for news, business, legal, medical, and congressional information. Note: formerly named Lexis Nexis Academic.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search for global news and information content, including Dow Jones, Reuters Newswires, and The Wall Street Journal. Text & data mining prohibited by license. See the "more" link for details.
Text and data mining (TDM) of Factiva content is prohibited by license. TDM includes mass downloading of content via scripts (aka scraping) *and* via Factiva's internal tools for downloading content. Please use ProQuest's TDM Studio for text mining.

Journalism and Media (Pew Research Center)
This Pew Research Center organization analyzes media coverage, including blogs and social media.
Center for Public Integrity
Nonprofit org. for investigative and accountability reporting

Video and podcasts

Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles and news coverage for many subjects

Vanderbily Television News Archive
Evening news broadcasts from major U.S. networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN). 1989 to present.
Internet Archive TV News
Search and view broadcasts from 2009 to present.

PUBPOL 301

News Articles

Historical Newspapers

Media Trends & Social Media

Video and podcasts

Contact Us

Services for...