LibGuides: Communication Studies: News & Newspapers

Newspaper Databases

ProQuest Newsstream (US and Global) This link opens in a new window
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Global Newsstream includes ProQuest US, Canadian, and International Newsstream. For the U.S., access to current content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s, with top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Selective coverage of Canadian and international news sources.
Including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Gale General Onefile This link opens in a new window
Gale Onefile features access to a wide range of full-text titles, indexes, and abstracts from prestigious general-interest sources. It integrates magazines, newspaper articles, children's magazines, almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books, and more.
Users will find articles on current events, business and industry trends, arts and sciences, popular culture, sports, hobbies, and more.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
The complete collection includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection.
New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
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Full-text of the historical New York Times from 1851 (through five years ago).
Covers through five years ago. Use the ProQuest Global Newsstream for articles from the most recent years.

US News & Newspaper Sources

PBS NewsHour
The PBS NewsHour is an American daily evening television news program that is broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
NPR: National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the U.S.
AP: Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City, and operated as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers, radio, and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists.

Newspaper websites and library databases may include every article published in an issue of a newspaper, but provide the full-text of selected articles.Users connecting from off-campus will be asked for a login and password.

New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
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Full-text of the historical New York Times from 1851 (through five years ago).
Covers through five years ago. Use the ProQuest Global Newsstream for articles from the most recent years.

Limited digital access

San Jose Mercury News
Limited availability in Proquest US and Global Newsstream
Modesto Bee
Turlock Journal
Sacramento Bee (historical microfilm)
San Francisco Chronicle (historical micorfilm)
Signal Archive
Archive of CSU Stanislaus Student Newspaper
1961-2020, 2007 - present

Newspapers by state: Wikipedia

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