LibGuides: COMM 301: Writing for Mass Audiences: Finding Articles

Newspaper Databases

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Gale Onefile: News (formerly InfoTrac Newsstand) This link opens in a new window
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A full-text database which allows searching of more than 1,000 newspapers by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.
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Newsbank This link opens in a new window
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Current full-text access to six Kansas newspapers: Emporia Gazette (2002- ), Kansas City Star (1991- ), Lawrence Journal-World (1990- ), Manhattan Mercury (1997- ), Topeka Capital-Journal (2002- ) and Wichita Eagle (1984- ). Also accessible, Access World news, which is a comprehensive news collection of local, regional, national, and international topics. Terms of Use
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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Reports & Social Policy & Topic Generators

Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
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A collection of content for exploration into social issues from all perspectives. Providing pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews, podcasts, primary source documents, and more.
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Google Account holders can login using their credentials to easily download and share articles, including highlights and notes, using Google Apps for Education tools like Drive and Docs.

CQ Researcher
In-depth single-topic reports on "hot" issues in the news with a U.S. focus. Each report covers all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles (plus pro-con feature, chronology, lengthy bibliographies and list of contacts) Coverage: 1991-present.
TOPICsearch
Contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides research in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts and some full-text articles from scholarly journals and trade publications in business and economics worldwide. Includes industry information, regional and national newspapers, and full-text access to the Wall Street Journal. Coverage: 1971-current.
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Student

University of the Fraser Valley. (2012, Oct. 3). UFV CEP Architectural Shots. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/ufv/8072256467. Used under the Creative Commons License.

Gale Onefile: News (formerly InfoTrac Newsstand) This link opens in a new window
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A full-text database which allows searching of more than 1,000 newspapers by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.
Terms of Use
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
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Current full-text access to six Kansas newspapers: Emporia Gazette (2002- ), Kansas City Star (1991- ), Lawrence Journal-World (1990- ), Manhattan Mercury (1997- ), Topeka Capital-Journal (2002- ) and Wichita Eagle (1984- ). Also accessible, Access World news, which is a comprehensive news collection of local, regional, national, and international topics. Terms of Use
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Terms of Use

Additional newspaper resources:

U.S newspaper sources from the Communication Research Strategies guide (opens a new guide)

International newspaper sources from the Communication Research Strategies guide (opens a new guide)

WSU University Libraries main guide to newspapers