LibGuides: Journalism and Media Research Guide: Finding Sources

Newspapers

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.

Google News Archive
Google has partnered with news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post, to index the full-text of news articles going back 200 years. Search for events, people, or ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to links to news articles, you will also see an automatically created timeline.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Uni)
Access ended June 30, 2024.
Provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new window
Explore New York Times articles published from 1851 up to two years ago. Includes the complete paper with full-page and article images in PDF format.

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Find articles on communication and mass media topics.
Communication Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on a wide range of communication topics.
Topics include applied communication, interpersonal communication, mass communication, organizational communication, group communication, journalism, and public relations.
ComAbstracts This link opens in a new window
Search over 120,000 article and book abstracts in communications studies from 1915 to present.

CBC Digital Archive
Contains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva provides access to company news as well as broadcast transcripts.

Internet Archive: TV News
Created by the Internet Archive this project brings together over 2,196,000 news broadcasts of various origins since 2009.
Television Archive
Contains a collection of archived television news broadcasts from the period following the September 11th attacks.

Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Search listings, summaries, and descriptions of evening television news broadcasts and special broadcasts covering political conventions, presidential campaigns, international events, and more. Documents major networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News with select coverage from 1968 to present. Names of reporters, anchors, persons involved in an event, and summaries can be searched.

American Journalism Review
National magazine covering all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.
Columbia Journalism Review
Columbia Journalism Review monitors and supports the press as it works across all platforms, and also tracks the ongoing evolution of the media business. The magazine is published six times a year.
Google Books
Use Google Books to search for or browse selected magazines.
LIFE archives
Available from Google Books, this resource provides access to the LIFE magazine archives

Journal Finder
Use this tool to determine the availability of online or print journals available at Kent State, as well as online titles available through OhioLINK.