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Internet Resources

AlterNet.org
http://www.alternet.org/index.html
A project of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, and sexual politics, with more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.

Associated Press Newswire
http://www.ap.org/index.html
Up to the minute news from the Associated Press.

Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
http://www.democracynow.org/
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.

National Public Radio
http://npr.org/
News, program transcripts, and streaming audio.

Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers
http://www.ipl.org/div/news
Well-organized list of links to newspapers worldwide.

Madison Media Links
http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/links.html
Links to home pages of Madison newspapers (including UW-Madison campus newspapers), magazines, TV stations, and radio stations.

Madison, Wisconsin Independent Media Center
http://madison.indymedia.org/
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

News and Newspaper Online
http://library.uncg.edu/news/
100’s of news resources from around the world that offer free access to current, general interest, full-text news – from the Walter Clinton Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Newslink
http://newslink.org/
Huge directory of newspaper home pages from around the world.

Progressive
http://www.progressive.org/
Madison-based magazine.

United States Newspaper List
http://www.usnpl.com/
U.S. Newspaper List – links to newspapers, radio and television stations, and some magazines and college newspapers, sorted by state.

WorldNews Network
http://www.worldnews.com/
Provides a variety of news sites from around the world.

World-newspapers.com
http://www.world-newspapers.com/
Directory of online world newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, from the customary to the bizarre, including alternative online publications. Searchable by magazine, newspaper, news and television photo galleries

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Electronic Databases

Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off Campus Users.

Academic Universe
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

Ethnic Newswatch
A full-text collection of 100 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Spanish language publications are presented in Spanish. The entire database is searchable in both English and Spanish.

Knight-Ridder News Service
Includes a 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight-Ridder wire service.

Proquest Historical Newspapers
Provides full-text and images of the New York Times going back to its inception in 1857.

Proquest Online Newspapers
Provides full-text, abstracts, and indexing for national, international, and Wisconsin newspapers.

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Periodicals

  • Click on the title of the periodical to see what issues are available at MATC libraries.
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Capital Times

Clarion (MATC newspaper)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

New York Times

Newsweek

Time

US News & World Report

USA Today

Wall Street Journal

Wisconsin State Journal

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Books

For a complete listing of resources on News, please consult the online library catalog. Many of the books covering topics of news and the media industry are in the 070's, with some others in the 300's and 790's.

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Last Modified: March 31 2008


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