Research Guides: News Databases for Media / Content Analysis: News Aggregator Databases

I'm Looking for a Specific Newspaper and Date Range. Which Database is It In?

A-Z Journals and Newspapers
A-Z Journals and Newspapers is a listing of academic journals, trade magazines, popular magazines, and newspapers.

I Want to Search Multiple Newspapers at Once. Which Databases Should I Use?

Search multiple newspapers and news transcripts with one search using newspaper aggregator databases. Each database offers slightly different title lists and interfaces for searching, viewing, and downloading articles. The database(s) you use will depend on your sample and database interface preferences.

Access World News Research Collection
Title List: On the Access World News homepage, at the top, click on "A-Z Source List"
Date Coverage: As early as 1970s/1980s, but varies by publication
Formats: Text and images of newspapers, magazines, newswires, television news transcripts, videos, and web-only content.
Download limits: 20 articles at time in PDF format.
Factiva
Factiva Title List: Click on "View Title List"
Date Coverage: As early as 1980s/1990s, but varies by publication
Formats: Text of newspapers, magazines, newswires, and some television news transcripts
Download limits: 100 articles at a time in PDF or RTF formats.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni Title List: Scroll down to "Content Listing" and click on "View Content Listing"
Date Coverage: As early as 1980s/1990s, but varies by publication
Formats: Text of newspapers, magazines, newswires, and some television news transcripts
Download limits: 100 articles at a time in PDF, docx, or rtf formats.
US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Title List: On the US Newsstream homepage, at the top, click on "Publications"
Date Coverage: As early as 1980s/1990s, but varies by publication
Formats: Mostly text, but some images and videos of newspapers, magazines, and newswires
Download limits: 100 articles at a time in PDF, xls, rtf, and txt formats.
ProQuest News and Newspapers
Title List: On the ProQuest News and Newspapers homepage, at the top, click on "Publications"
Date Coverage: As early as 1800s to present, but varies by publication. Large number of publications begins in 1990s/2000s.
Formats: Mostly text, but some images and videos of newspapers, magazines, and newswires
Download limits: 100 articles at a time in PDF, xls, rtf, and txt formats.

Information last updated October 2021

Additional Databases

A-Z Databases: Newspaper Databases
A list of all of the Libraries' newspaper databases
GDELT Project
The GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world. Coverage begins in 1979.
Note: Doesn't appear full text articles are available, but users can create data visualizations with their data.
Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer
From the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, this dataset provides an analysis of transcripts from CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC between January 1, 2010 to present.

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