Research Guides: News Sources: U.S. and Philadelphia News

Major Dailies

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 New York Times for the most recent 5 years. It requires an initial registration but then you will have access with your password for a full year.
Bryn Mawr users: How to create an account for the New York Times.
HC users: How to access the NY Times
If you want articles in the NY Times more than 5 years old, use the Proquest Historical Newspapers link for a more sophisticated search interface.

Financial Times (London)
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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.

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, Swarthmore also subscribe directly for recent coverage.
Bryn Mawr users: help accessing the Washington Post
Help accessing the Washington Post through Haverford's site license.

Philadelphia Newspapers

Philadelphia Inquirer
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1860-present. Subscription access to Inquirer.com (Philly.com) is not available through the libraries.

Billy Penn
Local news in Philly & region provided by WHYY public radio.
Philadelphia Tribune
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Founded in 1884, the Tribune is the oldest continually published African-American newspaper in the U.S. Available in full page images and article images from 1912 to the present. Issues from 1884 through 1911 were lost in a fire.
Philadelphia Daily News
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BMC: Full text (page images) from 2010 to last week.
HC: 1978-present
SC: Last 6 months
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger
Coverage: 1914-1942. Available from the Library of Congress.
Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger
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Coverage: 1934-1969. Also included in the Philadelphia Inquirer subscription above.
Philadelphia Record
Coverage: 1881-1910. Available on Google.
Christian Recorder
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Coverage: 1854-1856, 1861-1902. Early African American weekly with national and foreign news as well as issues relating to religion, morality and the arts.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922
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This database includes the Philadelphia Public Ledger (1836-1876) and the Philadelphia North American (1839-1879) as well as other papers published in the city.
Pennsylvania Gazette
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An important early North American newspaper published in Philadelphia. Edited for many years by Benjamin Franklin.
Coverage: 1728-1807, 1810-1815

Newspaper and Magazine Databases

Use these databases to search across multiple news sources at once.

Access World News
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Search across thousands of newspapers from the U.S. and the world going back to 1977.
Ethnic Newswatch
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Find articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Articles from 1959-present.
Nexis Uni
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International newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials.
ProQuest Research Library
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Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

News Magazines

Atlantic Monthly
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In-depth coverage of political, social and cultural issues. Use the link The Atlantic to access all articles and web-only features. Also on that site see the Atlantic Archive for articles published from 1857-present.
BMC users: How to access The Atlantic website
HC users: How to access the Atlantic
Economist
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UK magazine focusing on economic and political topics. International in scope including the U.S.
Foreign Affairs
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The three colleges have site licenses for all published articles as well as website content. Use the link E-Journals. Covers 1922 to the present.
Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865-)
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Important publication for analysis, commentary and investigative reports. Includes coverage of culture and the arts. All holdings include scanned page images and searchable text online for all issues of The Nation published from 1865 through to the present.

New Yorker
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Published since 1925, the New Yorker is one of the oldest weekly magazines in the United States, offering commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
Time Magazine
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Time Magazine is the first weekly news magazine in the United States. Coverage - 1923 to the present.

Higher Education News Sources

Chronicle of Higher Education
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News, editorials, and job listings for academics and higher education professionals.
HC users: How to access the Chronicle

Inside Higher Ed
Free news, opinions, careers in higher education. Requires free account if viewing more than 5 articles a month.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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Coverage: 1993-present.

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