News Sources

AVON includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage in all academic areas. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.

Search US public TV and radio programs from 1940s-2018. Includes TV and radio programs from 100+ public broadcasting stations across the county. (68,000 items are available to watch/listen.)

Includes contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s as well as early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel.

Search TV news from 1968-present. Lets you search news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox networks. (Anyone can search this database; Swarthmore affiliates can also watch video from NBC and CNN.)

Streaming video collection, includes some French, Dutch, and Japanese WWII-era newsreels (no English translation provided).

FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
FBIS daily reports, 1941-1974; FBIS daily reports, 1974-1996; FBIS daily report annexes, 1974-1996.

Formerly LexisNexis, find newspaper and magazine articles, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials, including Supreme Court cases. Includes the New York Times from 1980-present.

Search radio and TV news transcripts. Includes mostly 2000s-present. (Tip: Limit your results by Type. Good options include Audio and Transcript.)

Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.