Using Newspaper databases for research
ProQuest
provides coverage of major U.S., international, and minority interest papers newspapers. Also includes the Wisconsin Newsstand, full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal, and the Madison Capital Times, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.1985 to the present.Lexis-Nexis
offers access to over 6000 newspapers (including foreign sources), magazines, trade journals, transcripts, company info, business news, legal research, medical sources and reference works. It is especially strong in news, business, and legal information. Includes New York Times full-text.Newspaper Archive
contains access to searchable newspaper pages back to the 1800's.Links to area papers
Baraboo News-Republic some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Juneau County Star-Times some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Portage Daily Register some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Reedsburg Times-Press some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Sauk Prairie Eagle some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Wisconsin Dells Events some archived stories, going back to 1997.
Madison Capital Times the current day's news, plus some archives going back to 1989 (for fuller coverage see Proquest)
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel the current day's news
Wisconsin State Journal the current day's news, plus some archives going back to 1989 (for fuller coverage see Proquest)
WisInfo Current
day's articles for the following Wisconsin newspapers - the Appleton Post
Crescent, Oshkosh Northwestern, Fond du Lac Reporter, Manitowoc Herald Times
Reporter, Sheboygan Press, Stevens Point Journal, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune,
Marshfield News-Herald, and Central Wisconsin Sunday.
Home Town News - Wisconsin
links to 28 papers around the state.
Major news web sites - current news
BBC News
The Boston Globe
The Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
CNN.com
The Denver Post
The Los Angeles Times
The Miami Herald
The New York Times (requires free registration)
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
World-Newspapers.com
The Washington Post
Alternative news sources
General metasites:
Academic FreedomLinks - a directory
of alternative news sites.
Alternative
Media - provides links to a variety of electronic publications, alternative
television and radio sites, and media-focused organizations.
Alternative Press Center - publisher
of the Alternative Press Index, leading guide to the alternative press in
the US and around the world.
Association of Alternative
Newsweeklies- links to local alternative weekly newspapers around the
US, can narrow by state.
More specific sites:
AlterNet - a syndication service of
the alternative press, featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies,
magazines and web publications.
Indymedia - a collective of independent
media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate
coverage.
Counterpunch - political news
In These Times - the online version
of the magazine; covers social, political, and economic issues.
Mother Jones - the online version of
the magazine; focuses on issues of social justice, the environment, politics,
and popular culture.
Open Secrets - from the Center for
Responsive Politics, "a non-partisan, non-profit research group based
in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections
and public policy."
Project Censored -
covers news stories that are censored in the main stream press.
The Public Eye - "website of political
research associates."
Red Pepper - "is a magazine
of information, campaigning and culture. It provides a forum for the left
to debate ideas and action."
Znet - the online counterpart to
Z magazine, "an independent political magazine of critical thinking on
political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States."
Includes a Noam Chomsky archive
.