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* News: Finding News

News Sources

  This guide can help you get started in finding news sources for your topic.  You can also find recommended news sources within the subject guides specific to each discipline.  For international news sources, use Google Translate or Bing Translator to decipher information in other languages.


Campus-wide Subscriptions

NYTimes.com subscription (New York Times Online)

  1. Visit AccessNYT (https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/edu-access/university-of-rochester-rochester-ny)
  2. In the search box, enter “University of Rochester” then follow the prompts on the next page.
  3. Be sure to use your rochester.edu email address when setting up your account.  If you are already a paid subscriber, you will need to cancel before linking to the institutional account.

Once you've signed up, all content is at nytimes.com. Students will have access until they graduate. Faculty and staff must renew once every four years; add a reminder to your calendar; there will be no subsequent reminder.

WSJ.com subscription (Wall Street Journal Online)

  1. Visit WSJ.COM/ROCHESTER
  2. Enter your university credentials
  3. Create your WSJ account (to explore your membership benefits visit https://www.member.WSJ.com)

Chronicle of Higher Ed subscription

  1. Visit https://www.chronicle.com/
  2. Use the "sign in" link to create an account using your rochester.edu email address
  3. Follow the prompts to complete your account profile

Special Topics

International & National (non-US) News

US National & Regional (outside NYS)

NYS & Local

Major News Databases

Multimedia

Search Google for Official Sites by Locale

 

Advanced Search

When looking for official country, state or city websites, a good rule of thumb is to limit your domain (within the advanced search) to the appropriate abbreviation.

For country sites, refer to a list of country-specific domains.  Add your topic to Google and add site:fr (if France is the country of choice).

For state sites, limit the domain to state.state abbreviation.us (i.e. state.ny.us). Add your topic to Google and add site:state.ny.us.

For county/city/town sites, the process isn't as cut and dry.  Try adding your topic, the name of the city of interest and limit to the appropriate state.  For example, a Google search might be health Rochester site:ny.us.  Some cities/towns will list their websites under ci.name of town.ny.us (i.e. ci.webster.ny.us).  Others will use a .org (i.e. geneseony.org, townofbrighton.org, cityofchicago.org).  Even still, cities may refer to the broader county is which they're located (i.e. co.monroe.ny.us, co.livingston.state.ny.us).

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