Primary Communication News Sources

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
    LexisNexis Academic (old interface)

Important Communication News Sources

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

Arab Media Forum
Organized by the Dubai Press Club, the Arab Media Forum monitors and analyzes the full spectrum of media in the Arab world. Their reports are important sources for the study of this subject. They are ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

AsiaMedia
Daily electronic news publication covering all aspects of media in Asia, including its role in regional and national economies, societies, and politics. Previously called Asia Pacific Media Network....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Broadcast
Also Known as: Broadcast: The Weekly Newspaper of the Television and Radio Industry
Full text, online access requires password. To access the password for this resource, you will be required to authenticate yourself as an authorized Penn user. If you have further questions, please a...   [more]

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The years 1841-1952 are available online. Subsequent years are slated to be digitized....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

China Digital Times
Covers China's social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. Aggregates news and analysis, provides independent reporting and translated items from Chinese cyberspace....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Christian Science Monitor (1908-1999), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1908-1999

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

FactCheck.org
Also Known as: Annenberg Political Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases...   [more]
Holdings: December 2003-present.
Unrestricted Access

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

Harper's Magazine Digital Archive
Also Known as: harpers
- from publisher website
NOTE: 1 concurrent user...   [more]
Holdings: 1850-

ICON Database of International Newspapers
Also Known as: International Coalition on Newspapers Database
Database of information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions holdings of the same. Th...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ICON International Coalition on Newspapers: Newspaper digitization projects
"...highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

LANIC Media & Communication
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Unrestricted Access

Mideastwire.com
Also Known as: mideast wire, mideastwire
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 Diaspo...   [more]

Nation Digital Archive
Also Known as: The Nation Digital Archive , Nation
Page images (PDF) and searchable text (OCR) for all issues of The Nation....   [more]
Holdings: 1865-
Embargo: 1 month embargo on full-text

National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals (Shanghai Library)
Covers information for over one and half centuries from 1833 to the present, and about 10,000 titles of newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, almost all the ser...   [more]
Holdings: 1833-

Pacifica Radio Archives
Pacifica Radio Archives is considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movement...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Philadelphia Inquirer (1981- , via NewsBank)
Also Known as: NewsBank, philly.com
- from Newsbank Access World News
Searchable fulltext of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Images, advertisements, and classified ads are not provided....   [more]
Holdings: 1981-present (i.e., yesterday)

Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Almost a century of the Philadelphia Tribune online, with access to every page from every available issue as full page and article images along with searchable full text. The Tribune is the largest...   [more]
Holdings: 1912-2001
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

Political Forecasting Special Interest Group
Also Known as: PollyVote, politicalforecasting.com
Public opinion poll summaries and analysis. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ProQuest News and Newspapers
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Ten O'Clock News, The (WGBH-Boston)
523 tapes of The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, the collection focuses on stories relating to Boston's African American community....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Time Magazine Archives, 1923-present
20thcenturymagazines...   [more]
Holdings: 1923-
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UIUC Newspapers Database
A large bibliographic database listing newspapers held in the UIUC library system. Also attempts to identify recent newspaper digitization projects....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

Washington Post (1877-2004), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: Washington Post
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
[more]
Holdings: 1877-2004

Washington Post (Final Edition) (Proquest Recent Newspapers)
- from ProQuest Digital Microfilm
[more]
Holdings: 2008-

World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]
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World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

Zeitungsinformationssystem
Also Known as: ZEFYS
Historical newspapers digitized by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, including the Amtspresse Preussens and DDR-Presse....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related Communication News Sources

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
Supplemental URLs
    old interface