Research Guides: ANTH 202: Africa in the World (BMC): News Sources

U.S. Major Daily Newspapers

New York Times
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Full-text access to news articles, blog posts, videos, images, and multimedia features. Covers 1851-present. Use the link Individually subscribed periodical titles for recent coverage through the New York Times website.
Bryn Mawr users: How to create an account for the New York Times.
HC users: How to access the NY Times
SC users: How to access the NY TimesIf you want articles in the NY Times more than 5 years old, use the Proquest Historical Newspapers link for a more sophisticated search interface.
Wall Street Journal
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Help accessing the WSJ from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore
For earlier years, use the links for Proquest Historical Newspapers and for HC users, Proquest Recent Newspapers.
Washington Post
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This newspaper places a particular emphasis on national politics. Page images of the Washington Post (and at BMC, including the DC, MD, and VA editions, for issues up to a few days ago). Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore also subscribe directly for recent coverage.
Bryn Mawr users: help accessing the Washington Post
Haverford users: Help accessing the Washington Post through Haverford's site license
Swarthmore users: help accessing the Washington Post

International News, General

Access World News
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Covers 1977-present. Print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos

BBC World News
Reports from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. See the BBC home page for reports from the U.K and the U.S.
Daily Chatter
Daily Chatter is an international news resource which aggregates a handful of stories each day and delivers them for free to college students, faculty, and staff. Their mission is to package non-partisan news stories from reputable sources into a daily email that highlights five or six stories from around the globe.
Students may subscribe to the daily briefing via this link.
Faculty and staff should use this link.

Nexis Uni
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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.
World News Connection
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Translations into English of international news sources for the period 1995-2013. News from a variety of sources: press agencies, reports, newspaper articles, periodicals, books, press releases, radio broadcasts, television programs.
Financial Times
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An international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news.HC: The issues from the current month are in the Morley Alcove in paper copies.

Africa News

Access World News: African Newspapers & News Sources
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Find news articles from African newspapers, wire services, and other outlets (part of the larger Access World News database)

AllAfrica.com
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Provides daily news and information in English and French from across the African continent.

ABYZ News Links - Africa
ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It provides links to online editions of newspapers, magazines, broadcasts, and online news services.
Al Jazeera Africa
BBC Africa
BBC coverage of African news