Walker Library: COMM 2200: Audience-Centered Communication: News

Current News Databases (Fulltext)

InfoTrac Newsstand (Now News from Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from national, international, state and local newspapers, 1980 to present. Funded by Tennessee Electronic Library.

Newspapers.com Library Edition This link opens in a new window
Access to 4,000+ historical newspapers dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Watch a short video on using Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com LibGuide (support and training)
Title List (World Collection(Excel)
Title List (Southeast Collection(Excel)
Eight Centuries (formerly 19th Century Masterfile) This link opens in a new window
Database covering Anglo-American primary source material dating from 1106 until 1960, aggregating indexes, catalogs, collections, and other finding aids. Provides access to articles, newspapers, books, U.S. patents, government documents, and images, with links to full-text where available.
8C includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Niles' Register; American Memory; links to images in ArtSTOR; plus many more. See full content list (click on Resource Descriptions)

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives makes available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only in microformat, hard copy form or as images only.

Afro-American newspaper archives
This collection of historic African-American newspapers will be expanded over time. Coverage is primarily 20th century.
Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has extensive runs of newspapers from around the world many of which cannot be located elsewhere in the US. They are great about allowing people to borrow long runs of a paper on microfilm for extended periods of time. Place requests through Interlibrary Loan.
Chronicling America
View content from historic newspapers pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Google Newspaper Archive
Digital scans of historical newspapers from around the world.

Historical Atlanta Constitution This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of The Atlanta Constitution newspaper, 1868-1984.
Historical Chicago Defender This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of the Chicago Defender newspaper, 1900-1975.
Historical Nashville Tennessean This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of The Nashville Tennessean newspaper, 1812-2002.
Historical New York Amsterdam News This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of the New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993.
Historical New York Times This link opens in a new window
Full text digital archive of The New York Times, 1851-2018
Historical Norfolk Journal and Guide This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of the Norfolk Journal and Guide newspaper, 1916-2003.
Historical Washington Post This link opens in a new window
Fulltext digital archive of the Washington Post newspaper, 1877-2004.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover, full-color online archive includes every issue published.

Life Magazine
Digital version of all issues of LIFE magazine from 1935-1970. An invaluable resource for studying American culture during this time period.
ProQuest Direct News & Newspapers
Direct link to search all 5 of the historical newspapers listed above. Also includes links to current newspapers: The Tennessean, Daily News Journal, Ethnic News Watch.
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Includes
The Atlanta Consitution
Chicago Defender
New York Amsterdam News
New York Times
Norfolk Journal and Guide
The Washington Post

Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2010 This link opens in a new window
Every complete page of every issue in full-text searchable format.
Sunday Times (London) Digital Archive, 1822-2006 This link opens in a new window
More than 600,000 full-text searchable pages, including all supplements.
*Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2019 This link opens in a new window
Complete online facsimile edition of every issue through 2019.

Sources for text-only copies of news articles.

Tennessean, The (Nashville) (1812-5 days ago) This link opens in a new window
Digitized cover to cover contents of The Tennessean (Nashville) newspaper, 1812 to present (with 5 day embargo). Every page is full-text searchable.
Includes full-page and article level PDFs for 1812-1922 and full-page images and PDFs for 1923-present (with 5 day embargo).

Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles February 12, 1999 to present.
DNJ web site is http://www.dnj.com/

Public News Service - Tennessee
Public News Service (PNS) is a member-supported news service that advocates journalism in the public interest.
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Support comes from non-profit organizations, foundations, individuals and businesses for social responsibility.

Sidelines, student newspaper of MTSU

Sidelines digital collection
Digital copies of issues from 1938 to 2013, digitized as a service of Walker Library.
MTSUnews.com
News articles and publications from the Office of News and Media Relations at MTSU.

Thanks to a university-wide subscription, you have access to all the articles, breaking news, blogs, multimedia and more from The New York Times. Create a personal digital account using your MTSU email. Follow instructions in the confirmation email you receive (MTSU employees, make sure Proofpoint didn't quarantine the confirmation email).