Research Guides: POLS 055: Ethics and International Relations (SC): News Sources

Specific Newspapers & Magazines

Set up your Swarthmore access to news sources like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and others

Foreign Policy

New York Times
Full-text access to news articles, blog posts, videos, images, and multimedia features. Coverage from 1851-present.

The Economist
Respected weekly magazine with news coverage of financial, business and policy matters.

News Sources for Researching Cases

Not all news publications make their articles available for free. Try searching the news databases that the Tri-Co libraries provide to expand your research.

Access World News
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 8,000 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.
Nexis Uni
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.
MideastWire
Provides concise, translated,daily briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Covers 2005-
Current Digest of the Chinese Press
Provides an understanding of current events as reported by mass media in the People's Republic of China. Presents articles from key Chinese newspapers on such topics as politics, international relations, economics, public health, education, culture and more. Articles are selected from sources in China which are explicitly targeted on a domestic audience. Each article is translated into English, with great attention given to conveying the "sense and spirit" of the Chinese text.

Evaluating news publications (bias, etc.)

Resources for identifying the overall political bias of particular news sources. It's not an exact science- these resources won't always agree with each other. Sometimes the ratings are different for a publication's news versus opinion sections (e.g. look up the Wall Street Journal in these resources).

Media bias ratings can complement your own viewing of a source's homepage and evaluating the topics, perspectives, and language, as well as looking up the publication and seeing how others refer to it.

Media Cloud Directory
Look up a publication in this directory to see which collections it's included in (e.g. "Tweeted Mostly by Followers of Conservative Politicians 2019")
All Sides
Media Bias Fact Check
Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart

POLS 055: Ethics and International Relations (SC)

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Specific Newspapers & Magazines

News Sources for Researching Cases

Evaluating news publications (bias, etc.)