Key starting points
To locate the Web version of a newspaper or magazine, try one of the
following:
ABYZ News Links www.abyznewslinks.com
Fast-loading site that lists over 15,600 newspapers and other news
sources by country and by region within each country. There is a language
code next to each newspaper and separate links to alternative language
versions if they are available.
Kidon Media-Link www.kidon.com/media-link/
Lists 18,437 newspapers and other news sources from around the world. Newspaper, magazine, television, radio, and news agency sources are listed by country. You can also browse by language or search by media type, title and city. The results include a link to the source, a two letter code indicating the type of resource (news agency, radio, newspaper etc.), the frequency of publication, and the languages in which it is published or broadcast.
Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com
Another useful listing organized by continent and then country.
Journalism UK www.journalismuk.co.uk
Concentrates on UK newspapers, and has a particularly good list of UK
regional newspapers and links to magazine publishers.
If you want to search the Web for current news but don't relish the prospect
of accessing each news source separately, try one of the multi-source
services
Trade publications
For trade or industry publications, try searching on the publication
name or use one of the following directories:
Ulrich's Periodicals
Directory www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory is the resource for tracking down
periodicals of all types. It provides detailed and comprehensive information
on serials published throughout the world, covers all subjects, and includes
publications that are published regularly or irregularly and circulated
free of charge or by paid subscription. This is a subscription service
with rates starting at US $1,450 a year for a single user subscription.
Trade Publications www.tradepub.com
TradePub.com offers online subscription services for US controlled
circulation publications.
News Directory www.newsdirectory.com
World-wide coverage but not comprehensive.
Multi-source services
BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/ or news.bbc.co.uk
Not exactly a multi-source news service but it links to other relevant sites and stories and for many of us in the UK is a good starting point of news. It covers stories from around the world and you can watch BBC News 24 live. As well as text articles, there are videos of news items, podcasts and RSS feeds.
British Newspapers 1800-1900 newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/
This covers two million pages of 49 local and national 19th century newspapers. There is a basic search option on the home page but the advanced search enable you to search by keyword, publication date(s), place of publication, section (e.g. people, business), publication frequency and language (English or Welsh). You have to pay to view most of the articles. A 24 hour pass costs £6.99 and allows you to view up to 100 articles. A seven day pass costs £9.99 and gives you 200 article views.
Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers www.chipwrapper.co.uk
Chipwrapper is a Custom Google Search Engine that searches across the UK's major national newspapers: The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The People, News of the World, The Scotsman, Daily Star, and The Telegraph. It also searches the BBC News web site, ITN and Sky. It carries out a Google web search of these sources, not a Google News search, so although you cannot sort the results by date you do pull up older, archival material that is not included in the standard 30 days of Google News. As many of the newspapers give the date as part of the text of the stories you can often limit your search to a year and sometimes a specific month by simply including the month and year in your search. Also available is an RSS feed for the top headlines a Chipwrapper browser search plugin.
Google News news.google.com
Last 30 days of news from local, regional, national and international
sources. News is updated throughout the day and Google automatically puts
links to the same story from different sources in the same search result.
This makes it easier to scan the headlines without the clutter of repeat
articles, but also gives you the option of reading the alternative versions
provided by different sources.
For articles older than 30 days try Google News Archive Search at http://news.google.com/archivesearch. Results are sorted by relevance but you can select to view them by date or display a timeline. The Advanced Search includes options for searching by date, source, language and price. The source coverage is not the same as the current Google News search,
Many of the articles are priced and it may be cheaper to buy them elsewhere on a pay as you go service, for example Factiva.
Moreover
www.moreover.com/site/products/ind/rss_feeds.html
Moreover brings together articles from over 10,000 online news and information
sources. This page on the Moreoeversite offers over 330 predefined categories
of news as RSS news feeds. These feeds are free but advertising supported.
News Now www.newsnow.co.uk
An unashamedly UK news service that gathers together stories from a wide
range of UK sources. Headlines are listed under sections (Business and
Finance, IT, Current Affairs, Sport, Gaming and Entertainment). Headlines
are updated every 5 minutes and you can search the headlines of a 30 day
archive.
Yahoo News uk.news.yahoo.com
Provides access to the last
30 days of news. The Advanced Search features include limit by publication,
location and time period. There is a free email and RSS Alerts service.
Priced Services
BBC Monitoring Online www.monitor.bbc.co.uk
Global business, international politics and macroeconomic news from
BBC Monitoring. This site covers thousands of business and political news
reports from radio, newspaper, internet, television and news agency broadcasts
from over 3,000 sources in more than 150 countries. These reports are
monitored live, translated into English and then edited by BBC World Service
journalists. Factiva.com www.factiva.com
Comprehensive news service now available on a pay-as-you-go basis as well
as by annual subscription. There is an annual subscription of US$69 for
the pay as you go option.
LexisNexis www.lexisnexis.com.
Lexis-Nexis is a subscription service with excellent industry and geographical coverage. unfortunately, its pay-as-you-go 'à la carte' was discontinued on 3rd December 2007.
Circulation and
distribution figures
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)
www.abc.org.uk
ABC audits the circulation of over 3400 magazines and newspapers. The
information is freely available on the Web site and is of particular interest
to advertising agencies and advertisers.
ABC's eCirc
(US and Canada) abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/index.html
A concise and free online source for ABC top-line circulation (based on
the latest released FAS-FAX report) information. Sort and search summarized
circulation data by publication, state/province, U.S. SRDS or Canadian
CARD classifications. Publications types covered are newspapers, consumer
magazines, business publications and farm publications.
JICREG - British Newspaper Readership
Data www.jicreg.co.uk
Joint Industry Committee for Regional Press Research. Offers data
at the location level free of charge (log in as guest). Search by location,
single newspaper, county, Independent Local Radio (ILR) area, ITV region,
Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) area, Registrar-General
area, Local Government area. Information includes demographic profiles
and detailed breakdown of readership. Data can be exported to Excel. Covers
local and regional press only.
Newspaper Society www.newspapersoc.org.uk
The Newspaper Society represents and promotes the interests of over
1300 UK regional and local free and paid for titles. As well as general
information on the industry, there are Facts and Figures on the industry
for example advertising expenditure, circulation and distribution, ownership,
regional mergers and acquisitions and top publishers.
UK
Financial Times www.ft.com
Essential UK business newspaper. You can view up to 10 articles a month free of charge as a registered user. The Standard Subscription costs £3.29/month (£171.09/year) and
gives unlimited access to articles, email services and portfolio tools. The Premium Subscription
gives unlimited access to everything on FT.com including Lex, the agenda-setting column and costs £4.99/week (£259.48/year)
The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk
Access to current
and archive Web content from the Guardian and The Observer (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/) and there are some excellent blogs including the separate Datablog (http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog). In addition there are very useful oprions for searching world government data (currently covers UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand) at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data and the Coins UK government data explorer at http://coins.guardian.co.uk/coins-explorer/search Independent Online www.independent.co.uk
Free access to current and archive articles.
Telegraph Newspaper Online www.telegraph.co.uk
Most of the hard copy Daily Telegraph and don't forget that it carries the Matt cartoons, and Alex - ideal for catching up with that city gent's escapades if you have been on holiday for a while.
The Times (www.thetimes.co.uk) and the Sunday Times (www.thesundaytimes.co.uk)
Priced service. Access costs £2/week or £1 for a 24 hour "pass". The subscription covers both web sites.
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