Newspapers and news services
- Introduction
- News databases
- Newspaper Directories
- Major Newspapers
- News Sources
- Related resources
Introduction
A large number of newspapers and news services are available electronically. This guide deals mainly with full text electronic sources, and looks primarily at Australian news services. Some services may allow free access to current issues, but charge to search archived material. Also, some electronic versions of newspapers may not contain the whole of the print version
News databases
The Library currently subscribes to several different news databases that provide access to print and television news items.
- Newspaper databases provides access to the print media databases subscribed to by the Library
- TV News provides access to media clips on the TVNews database
Newspaper Directories
The directories below will take you to individual newspapers on the web. There are directories that cover South Australian, Australian and International newspapers
You can find Australian newspapers by their title, or by state or town, and link to their online equivalents. Note that some South Australian newspapers are only available in print form
- Australian Newspapers (opens in new window) provided by OnlineNewspapers.Com
- Australian Newspapers Online (opens in new window) is produced by the National Library of Australia
- Yourguide (opens in new window) from Fairfax Digital Regional Network has a network of community based web sites supported by more than one hundred and sixty of Australia's local newspapers.
These sites will help you to find newspapers from around the world by title, or by region, country or city, and link to their online equivalents. Note that some online newspapers are written in the local language and may not have an English equivalent
- ABYZ News Links (opens in new window) has links to worldwide news sources by country or by region. It is regularly updated and has an internal search engine
- NewsVoyager (opens in new window) finds newspapers by title, country or city name
- Newspapers.com (opens in new window) has links to the world's newspapers
- OnlineNewspapers.com (opens in new window) finds newspapers by country or by title
- Paperboy (opens in new window) has links to newspapers by country, city or title
- Today's Front Pages (opens in new window) worldwide newspaper front pages. You are able to link to web site of each newspaper
- World-Newspapers.com (opens in new window) contains newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, sorted by country and region
Major Newspapers
Search the Library Catalogue (opens in new window) under the title of the newspaper this will indicate whether the Library has access to the newspaper in print or electronic format. Many local, Australian and international newspapers are accessible in full text via the Library databases. If the University of South Australia library does not hold a particular newspaper search the State Library of South Australia catalogue (opens in new window) as it holds most Australian newspapers
It is worth noting that
- the online newspapers below usually provide news for the current day only
- you are able to search by keywords within some sites
- some online newspapers are written in the local language and may not have an English equivalent
- Adelaide now (opens in new window) for The Advertiser and the Sunday Mail
- Independent Weekly (opens in new window)
- Messenger Community News (opens in new window) for suburban Adelaide newspapers
- The Age (opens in new window)
- The Australian (opens in new window) including The Weekend Australian
- Australian Financial Review (opens in new window)
- BRW (opens in new window) Business Review Weekly
- Canberra Times (opens in new window)
- Courier-Mail (opens in new window)
- Daily Telegraph (opens in new window)
- Fairfax Digital (opens in new window) gives access to the Fairfax publications
- Herald Sun (opens in new window)
- News.com.au (opens in new window) covers selected stories from all the Murdoch newspapers
- The Sydney Morning Herald (opens in new window)
- The West Australian (opens in new window)
Asia
- Asahi Shimbun (Japanese) (opens in new window)
- Asia Times Online (opens in new window)
- Bangkok Post (Thailand) (opens in new window)
- China Daily (opens in new window)
- Fiji Post (Fiji) (opens in new window)
- South China Morning Post (opens in new window)
- Straits Times (Singapore) (opens in new window)
Canada
- The Globe and Mail (opens in new window)
- Toronto Star (opens in new window)
- Vancouver Sun (opens in new window)
France
New Zealand
- The Dominion Post (opens in new window)
- New Zealand Herald (opens in new window)
- Otago Daily Times (opens in new window)
- The Press (opens in new window) Fairfax NZ
United Kingdom
- Guardian Unlimited (opens in new window) an online version of The Guardian newspaper
- Times Online (opens in new window)
- Daily Telegraph (opens in new window)
- The Independent (opens in new window)
United States
- International Herald Tribune (opens in new window)
- Los Angeles Times (opens in new window)
- The New York Times (opens in new window)
- Washington Post (opens in new window)
It is possible to set up RSS feeds to numerous online international newspapers
News Sources
This section contains links to blogs, newswires, agencies and services in Australia and overseas. These sources may not have a print equivalent
- Benn's Media (opens in new window) is a printed directory to the media industry worldwide in 3 volumes: vol 1 United Kingdom; (opens in new window) vol 2 Europe; (opens in new window) vol 3 World (opens in new window)
- Margaret Gees Australian Media Guide (opens in new window) is an example of an online directory of information about the Australian media industry, including newspapers
- AAP: Australian Associated Press (opens in new window)
- AFP: Agence France Press (opens in new window)
- AP: Associated Press (US) (opens in new window)
- Reuters
- United Press International (opens in new window)
- ABC News (opens in new window) comes from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (opens in new window) The ABC offers content that may be ignored by more commercial services
- Aljazeera (opens in new window)
- BBC News (opens in new window) has coverage of both local and world events (UK)
- CNN.com (opens in new window) provides news from Cable News Network Inc., USA
- Network 10 news (opens in new window)
- NineMSN (opens in new window)
- SBS World News Australia (opens in new window) SBS is Australia's national multicultural broadcaster
- Seven News (opens in new window)
- The American Reporter (opens in new window) is an electronic news brokerage owned by the reporters who contribute to it. It claims to be unbiased, having no political, corporate or other affiliation
- Australian News Commentary (opens in new window) describes itself as "Independent commentary to counter the left-leaning, politically correct bigotry of a majority of mainstream journalists"
- Crikey (opens in new window) is an Australian independent online news service with news and commentary on politics, media and business. There are free and subscription sections.
- The Drudge Report (opens in new window) is a US independent web based news service, run by Matt Drudge. Amongst the tabloid gossip you will sometimes find ground breaking news stories
- Google News (opens in new window) presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources. An automated grouping process pulls together related headlines and photos from thousands of sources worldwide enabling you to see how different news organizations are reporting the same story
- JournalistExpress (opens in new window) is a media site that has links to news wires, broadcast, newspapers, headlines, news archives, directories and market information
- New Matilda (opens in new window) delivers a weekly online magazine, generating topical analysis and debate, and gives readers the opportunity to have a say in developing policy. NewMatilda promotes truth in public life, independent political commentary, policy based on public good and citizen power in decision making
- Yahoo: News (opens in new window) comes from Yahoo! Inc, US
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