LibGuides: * Political Science & International Relations: News

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Factiva This link opens in a new window
Contains articles on business, news, and companies worldwide, current and historical financial quotes, and company profiles. Use VPN if you have trouble accessing this resource.

Access World News
Provides articles from over 700 international news sources.
allAfrica
News aggregate of 140+ news sources from the African continent.
Al Jazeera English
Arabic-language news network (also see their Creative Commons Repository for older news that uses a Creative Commons license instead of traditional copyright).
AsiaOne
Associated Press
BBC World News (UK)
CBC (Canada)
Euronews
GDELT Project (Worldwide News Monitoring) GDELT monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages to graphically chart political social and economic phenomena. Offers data and api downloads.

Latin American News Digest This link opens in a new window
Washington D.C. based publication dedicated on expanding the reach of Latin American news coverage and analysis produced by Latin American media.

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

TV News Archive
Uses AI to scan the bottom third of the screen for captions and creates textual news for search and analysis.

17th and 18th Century Newspapers from the Burney Collection This link opens in a new window
Search across a million pages of newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).
This is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

ProQuest Research, Newspapers & Business This link opens in a new window
445 Newspapers including The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Ethnic NewsWatch & GenderWatch.
ProQuest Political News This link opens in a new window
Includes Roll Call, the Washington Post, and CQ Political Transcripts. Formerly titled LexisNexis Inside Washington.

Roll Call
Provides news coverage and analysis of Capitol Hill and Washington, DC along with coverage of political campaigns and elections.

National Journal This link opens in a new window
News, data and analysis on U.S. Congressional members and legislation. See "my publications" and "columns" for specific content.
Includes Hotline, National Journal Daily, Almanac of American Politics, National Journal Magazine, Daybook, and Cook Report.

New York Times (1980-present) via Proquest
See the print edition of the latest issue at Q&i in Rush Rhees; earlier issues kept on the 2nd floor in the Periodical Reading Room until replaced by microfilm.

Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new window
Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from the ethnic and minority press in the U.S.

NPR Politics

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

C-SPAN Video Library
CSpan archive and index of proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Searchable database of public radio and television shows, with a great deal of meta data attached. A collaboration of WGBH and Library of Congress.

U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. U.S. Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of American newspapers from the 19th Century.
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. No overlap with America’s Historical Newspapers.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of American newspapers from colonial times to the 1920's. Also known as Early American Newspapers. From Readex.
Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
Searchable, full text pages from hundreds of US newspapers, 1836 to 1922 and directory information from 1690 to the present.
Chronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories. More information on program guidelines, participation, and technical information can be found at http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html or http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text - articles, ads, pictures - of New York Times (1851 - 2011) & other major papers. Click "More" link for their names.
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1984) Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) Baltimore Sun (1837-1992) Boston Globe (1872 - 1985) Chicago Defender (1909-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1993) Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 2004) Globe and Mail (1844-2014) Irish Times (1859 - 2016) Louisville Courier (1830 - 2000) Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1993) Minneapolis Tribune (1867 - 2001) New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) New York Times (1851 - 2013) U.S, Northeast Collection (1785 - 2010) Some issues for 1953, 1962-1963, 1965, 1978 were never published due to pressman's strikes. No Sunday issue was published until April 21, 1861. New York Tribune (1841-1962) Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) South China Morning Post (1903-1998) Times of India (1838-2008) Wall Street Journal (1889 - 2000) Washington Post (1877 - 2000)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text/image for key 20th-century African-American newspapers from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Pittsburgh.
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) Chicago Defender (1909-1975) New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
Nation Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States with political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. (1865- present).
Includes photos, drawings, maps, etc. Search or browse by date, author, or subject category. Advertisements are present but cannot be searched for separately.
Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles in popular and general-interest periodicals published in the US and Canada, 1890 - 1982.

Long running newspapers:

Washington Evening Star This link opens in a new window
A long-running daily afternoon paper published in Washington D.C. between 1852 and 1981, and was one of the highest profile publications in the nation. Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people, advertisements, death notices, and more.

Center For Research Libraries (CRL)
Search newspapers by state or country. As a member library, U of R can access long runs of CRL materials are loaned for entire academic cycles and the duration of advanced research projects, with third-day delivery on the vast majority of interlibrary loans.

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

Regional

NYS Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window Provides free access to many of New York's historic newspaper titles, in PDF format.

New York State Newspaper Project List of microfilmed newspapers held by the New York State Library and other repositories throughout New York State, with detailed holdings and location information. Searchable by county, city and title of publication, and key word.

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

Local

Democrat and Chronicle (1999-present) This link opens in a new window Full text of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (1999-present).

Rochester Newspaper Index A project of Rochester Public Library, this index covers many early Rochester newspapers including the Rochester Daily Democrat, the Working Man's Advocate, and the Rochester Republican.
Campus Times (UR 2004-present)

For even more news sources see http://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/news.

Other Resources

bizjournals.com Full text access to articles from forty U.S. city business newspapers, including Business First of Buffalo. Useful for gauging the business climate of a specific city.
News and Periodical Resources (Library of Congress) Lists the best websites for finding news periodicals published online.
World-Newspapers World newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, sorted by country and region.
Google News Search Search articles stretching back more than 200 years, from the archives of Time Magazine, The Guardian, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Washington Post and aggregators like LexisNexis and Factiva.

Requesting newspapers via ILL

WorldCat This link opens in a new window Browse this resource to locate newspapers owned by libraries in the US and internationally. Use the "Find@UR" button to request an item via Interlibrary loan (ILL).
Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of UR, in all disciplines and formats, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections.

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Fake or Legit? Tips and tools for Evaluating Sources

Evaluating information sources:

Checklist for identifying "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources."
Zimdars, M. (2016). 'False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources.’ (Manuscript). Merrimack College, Department of Communication and Media, North Andover, MA. Recently featured in the Chronicle of Education.
Media Bias Chart by Vanessa Otero

RADAR Framework (Loyola)
Checklist for evaluating information sources

SIFT: How to identify misinformation
Think like a fact-checker using lateral reading from multiple sources and searching for independent information on the publishing organization, funding sources, and other factors that might indicate the reliability and perspective of a site and its authors or sponsors.
Fake News and the Spread of Misinformation
Compilation of studies about fake news by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
How to separate fact and fiction online (TED Talk)
Video of a TED Talk by Markham Nolan of CBS News on investigative techniques that can be used to verify information in real-time.
A Finder's Guide To Facts (NPR)
How to tell fake news from real news in the post-truth era
Misinformation Review (Harvard Kennedy School)
An open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary.
News Literacy in the Age of AI (News Literacy Project)
Recent News on News Literacy (Center for News Literacy)
Resources and news about "fake news" and news literacy
Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online
Report by Data & Society that reveals why media was vulnerable to radicalized groups online.
Verification Handbook: An ultimate guideline on digital age sourcing
Handbook is a step by step guide for verifying digital content initially created for reporters and emergency responders.

Fact Checking:

Factcheck.org
"A nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics".
PolitiFact
Run by the Tampa Bay Times (which is owned by journalism school the Poynter Institute), this site checks and ranks political claims
Washington Post Fact Checker
Fact checks political and governmental topics
Wayback Machine
Evaluate web page history using this web archive that captures websites over time and can be used to verify content history and edits.

Evaluating Images:

FotoForensics
Identify parts of an image that may have been modified or “photoshopped”.
Google Reverse Image Search
Upload or use a URL image to check the content history or to see similar images on the web (select the camera icon to search by image).
Google Street View
Identifying the location of a suspicious photo or video is a crucial part of the verification process.
Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer
Upload or enter the URL of an image and view its metadata.
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Upload or enter an image URL to the search bar and see a list of related sites.

Other tools:

AllSides
Provides bias ratings for various media providers
Read Across The Aisle
Mobile application to help you read beyond the narrow perspective of your pre-existing political perspective.
Media Bias/Fact Check
Website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and media sources.
WhoIs
Allows you to look up the owner of an Internet domain.
Hoaxy (beta)
Visualizes how fake news stories and fact-checking stories spread on social media. Hoaxy is a project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research.
News Use Across Social Media (Pew Research)
Study on political news consumption habits in the U.S.
The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online (Pew Research)
Report on fake news online and the the potential impacts of online social interaction.
Dataminr
The site that many journalists are using to find breaking news. Lots of analysis of words, data to see what is trending.
Media Cloud
A site dedicated to the study of media attention and influence for issues affecting countries around the world. Access our raw data through the public API.

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