Research & Subject Guides: News Sources: Current News Sources

Newspaper Databases (Subscription)

Nexis Uni
Date coverage varies. Fulltext. Over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
U.S. Major Dailies
US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected US national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The titles offer researchers thorough and timely coverage of local, regional, and world events with journalistic balance and perspective. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985. This database is available on the ProQuest platform.
Ethnic NewsWatch
1990-present. Fulltext. Articles from newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic, minority and native presses in the United States. In English and Spanish.
Newsday
1985-present. Fulltext of Newsday (Combined edition). Fulltext of Nassau edition 1988-1997. Fulltext of Queens edition 1988-1996.

Curren Foreigner Newspapers at Stony Brook

These newspapers can be found, in varying degrees of currency, on the newspaper and magazine shelves in the middle of the Central Reading Room.

News Web Sites

ABYZ News Links
News from around the world, in many languages
Al Jazeera
Arts & Letters Daily
BBC News
Bloomberg Financial News
British Pathe News Archive
1896 - 1976. newsreels and more
CNN
College News
Columbia Journalism Review
Democracy Now!
FirstAmendmentCenter.org
Google News
Aggregate news source
Informed Comment
International News Archives on the Web
Internet Archive: News & Public Affairs
Internet Public Library: Newspapers Online
Library of Congress Moving Picture Archive
National Public Radio
New York Times (website)
Newsday (website)
NewsMax
Thomson Reuters Foundation News
PolitiFact
Pultizer Prize-winning site checks facts reported in political news.
RealClearPolitics
Political news aggregator.
Science News
The Huffington Post
The National Review
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
White House Press Breifings
Wikileaks
WikiNews

News Sources - Top Picks

The following is a list of top open web sites and subscription databases to use for news sources. To see longer, more complete lists, click on the Current News Sources and Historical Newspapers tabs.

Ethnic NewsWatch
1990-present. Fulltext. Articles from newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic, minority and native presses in the United States. In English and Spanish.
Nexis Uni
Date coverage varies. Fulltext. Over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.
New York Times (Historical)
1851-3 years ago. Online access to page images and fulltext articles from the New York Times as far back as the first issue.

New York Times (website)
Website of the New York Times. Access is somewhat restricted to NYT subscribers. For current NYT articles, use LexisNexis Academic or Factiva. Current issues of the newspaper are kept in the Central Reading Room.

Newsday
1985-present. Fulltext of Newsday (Combined edition). Fulltext of Nassau edition 1988-1997. Fulltext of Queens edition 1988-1996.

Newsday (website)
Website of Newsday. Access is mostly restricted to Newsday subscribers. For current Newsday articles, use the Library's Newsday database, LexisNexis Academic, or Factiva. Current issues of the newspaper are kept in the Central Reading Room.

Washington Post (Historical)
1877-1997. Fulltext. Digitized historical archive of The Washington Post. Complete issues, cover to cover, from its beginning in 1877 until 1997, including news articles, photos, advertisements, marriage announcements, obituaries, cartoons, and more. In searchable pdf format.