Online Newspapers and News Sources

Online newspapers and magazines vary widely in the levels of service they provide.  Some offter full-text articles and are updated throughout the day; others offer only brief articles from the printed editions.  Some will ask you to register with them to use their site.  Some will have older stories available, others will not.  Use Lexis-Nexis, Proquest Newsstand, or Factiva to search for older articles from thousands of newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Full-text newspaper portals

• Lexis-Nexis. (UST subscription database)
  Choose the News tab to search U.S. and world newspapers, magazines, and transcripts.  (Star Tribune and Pioneer Press are part of "Newspaper Stories, Combined Papers.") Try "Major World Newspapers" for international news sources. To search by specific title, choose the "Sources" tab: use "Browse Sources" to sort by category, or "Find Sources" to search by keyword or specific title.
• Proquest Newsstand. (UST subscription database)
  Full-text access to hundreds of newspapers including The Star Tribune,The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
• Factiva. (UST subscription database)
  Choose the "Source" option and then select "Publications-Regions" to search U.S. or international news sources. Select "Publications-Titles" to search by specific title, including the Wall Street Journal.
• Pioneer Press Archives. (UST subscription database)
  Full-text archives of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1988 to present (does not include the current week's articles, which are available at the Pioneer Press website.)
• New York Times Historical. (UST subscription database)
  Historical run of the New York Times, with complete coverage from 1851 to 2003.
• Washington Post Historical. (UST subscription database)
  Historical run of the Washington Post, with complete coverage from 1877 to 1990.

See also Newspaper Databases.

Minnesota news

• Business Journal. (formerly Minneapolis-St. Paul CityBusiness)
• Minnesota Newspaper Directory. (Minnesota Newspaper Association)
• Minnesota Newspapers Directory. (Mn-news.com)
• St. Paul Pioneer Press.
• Southwest Journal. (Southwest Minneapolis community newspaper)
• Star Tribune. (Minneapolis)
• Sun Newspapers. (41 community newspapers in the suburban Twin Cities)

Media/newspaper web links

• Internet Public Library: Newspapers.
  Links to online newspapers from around the world.
• Newslink.
  Links to over 8000 newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts in the U.S. and around the world.
• Newspaper Links. (Newspaper Association of America)
  Gateway to newspaper websites from around the world.
• Onlinenewspapers.com.
  "Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips."

• ABC News
• BBC
• BusinessWeek
• CBS
• Chicago Tribune
• Christian Science Monitor
• CNN
• C-SPAN
• Economist
• Fox News
• Global Voices Online
  Digest of weblogs from around the world.
• International Herald Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• MSNBC
• National Public Radio
• New York Times
• Newsweek 
• PBS Online Newshour
• Slate.com Today's Papers
• Time Magazine
• U.S. News & World Report
• USA Today
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post

Updated July 2008.