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How to Use this Guide

The News Media & Journalism Research Guide helps you find resources relevant to your research and writing for News Media classes. Each tab specializes in a particular area:

Background & Specialized Resources: find helpful dictionaries and encyclopedias for the first phase of your research, then find specialized databases for more specific searches.
News Sources: find current and historical news sources published in the United States and internationally.
Reports & Statistics: find resources for basic industry and market research, plus national and international demographics and information about non-profit organizations.
Government Information: track federal legislation, House and Senate salaries, plus public records in Utah.

Free Access to The New York Times!

The BYU Library subscribes to The New York Times online edition so you can have daily access to national and international news. Follow these simple instructions to create an account at nytimes.com.

Core News Sources

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Gale Newsstand
Provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields.
Newspapers (ProQuest)
This ProQuest database provides full text of more than 700 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title.
Factiva
Global news and business information service including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and thousands of other national and international newspapers in multiple languages. Also provides financial market data and company information.

No Systematic Downloading. Factiva may not be used for data mining, text mining, or trend analysis functions.

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