COM 120: Public Discourse Spring 2025: News Sources

You will most likely be searching for local news articles available in local papers as part of your research. Consult the resources on this page for getting the full text of news articles.

"Newsstand" by MCHLC, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

If you are searching a local newspaper, you might hit a paywall. The easiest way to access news articles is through the databases linked below. This will get you around any paywalls you might encounter if you were just searching Google for newspaper articles. If you live in a bigger city, your local newspaper might be in Proquest US Newsstream. For smaller local papers, try Access World News database. Contact your local public library or contact Anna for more help - accessing articles behind a paywall is one of the most common questions that I get from COM 120 students! 

• To see if a specific newspaper is included in the databases OR if you'd like to search within your newspaper, follow these steps:
  • In US Newsstream click on the three horizontal bars at the top of the page (next to U.S. Newsstream). Select Publications and then search the title of your newspaper to see if it's in the database. If it is, click the title to search within that publication only.
  • In Access World News (Newsbank) click on A-Z Source List at the top of the page. Then search the title of your newspaper to see if it's in the database. If it is, click on the title to search within that publication only.