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News

Reference Databases

America's News Magazines
U.S. and international news, business, entertainment, sports, and science from popular news magazines.

AP Images
Associated Press photos from the 1840s to the present. Middle-school to adult. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)  

eLibrary
Magazine and newspaper articles, books, photographs and maps. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

General Onefile (InfoTrac)
Magazine and newspaper articles in all subject areas. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health and medical journals, the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and the Medical & Health Information Directory. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

InfoTrac Kids Edition
Magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more, designed for kids. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

ProQuest
Magazine and newspaper databases in all subject areas. Contains articles from 18 Washington State newspapers including full-text coverage of the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer back to 1995 and full-text coverage of the New York Times for the past three years. (Available outside the library with a Timberland Regional Library card.)

World News Digest
Domestic and world news coverage from 1940 to the present.

Current Events

ABC News.com
Award-winning web site with news coverage provided by ABC.

AP Update
Breaking news from Associated Press. Times listed are Eastern time; subtract three hours for Pacific time.

CNN Interactive: Specials
In-depth reports containing background information, latest updates, and related links for major news topics.

Documents in the News
Washington news stories and related documents from the Washington State Library.

Internet Public Library: News Reference
Links to a number of respected worldwide news sites.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Media
Annotated news directories evaluated and selected by librarians.

MSNBC: Special Coverage
Ongoing news reports from MSNBC.

NewsHub
The most recent news stories on a variety of topics.

Out There News
A different approach to today's news and current events.

Local Newspapers

Daily Astorian

Puget Sound Business Journal

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Times

The Chronicle (Centralia)

The Daily News (Longview)

The Daily World (Aberdeen)

The News Tribune (Tacoma)

The Olympian

The Oregonian (Portland)

The Sitting Duck
Free weekly paper featuring news, arts and entertainment for the South Sound

Weekly Volcano
Free weekly paper based in Tacoma featuring news, arts and entertainment for the South Sound

Directories to Newspapers and Magazines

Electronic Journals
searchable directory of e-journals, many are accessable only to University of Pennsylvania users.

Metagrid Newspapers & Magazines
Search by name, location, or subject area. Worldwide coverage.

News and Newspapers Online
Links to newspapers around the world, focusing on free sites that provide current, general interest, full-text news.

News Directory
Worldwide directory to newspapers and magazines. Browse newspapers by region or magazines by type, or search by title

NewsLink
Worldwide directory to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.

Newspapers.com
Search for newspapers in the USA or by country; find college newspapers, and business publications.

Publist
A directory to over 150,000 magazines worldwide. Provides publisher contacts, frequency, ISSN, status, etc. Requires free registration.

Yahoo! Magazines

Yahoo! Newspapers

National Newspapers

Christian Science Monitor
The electronic edition with article summaries, links to full stories, and searchable archives.

P. R. Newswire
The wire service for news from the U.S. government and other public policy news sources.

The New York Times
Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars & more. (Previous. issues back are searchable in the ProQuest and General OneFile databases)

USA Today
News, sport, money, life and weather for the U.S.

Washington Post
One of the nation's leading newspapers, this has an unusually comprehensive site: many full text articles, continually updated news and hundreds of links to other resources.

Newspapers - Mega Sites

Asia Newspaper and Media Links
From AsiaNewsUpdate.com.

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) is a diverse group of 125 non-daily free-circulation papers that are distributed in all of the major metropolitan areas of North America. Each paper has a distinct, local identity that sets it apart from the mainstream press in its market.

CNSNews.com
News and views from the right, compiled by the Conservative News Service.

Kidon Media Link
The text of U.S. and international newspapers, including classifieds, arranged by area, country and state.

Newslink
4000 Newspapers by location and 23 Magazines of the United States and Canada arranged by topic.

NewsMax
America's News Page offers links to top stories from broadcast media and newspaper Web sites.

Sightline Daily
An on-line news filter for the Pacific Northwest that contains the top stories on the environment, community development and the economy. Sightline's editors update the website every weekday morning with more than 30 on-line news sources from Alaska to Northern California. Sightline also features original news and commentary on a weekly basis and archives and resources to help you learn more about things like salmon and growth management. You can email your elected officials, find your watershed, or sign up to have Sightline's links delivered by email each morning.

U.S. News Archives on the Web
Provided by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association, this site includes a table arranged by state and city. There is a link to the home page of each newspaper, the archive page, dates covered, and information about any charges for downloading articles.

Media

Blogs

Blognews
Blog News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

BoingBoing: a directory of wonderful things
The most popular blog in the world, full cultural curiosities and interesting technologies.

Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Daily weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective.

Drudge Report
A conservative news aggregation weblog featuring links to international news sources and columnists.

Global News Blog
Blog from Reuters News Service discussing world news headlines

Huffington Post
This aggregated weblog features daily news and opinion from a liberal point of view.

Lifehacker: tips and downloads for getting things done.
Daily weblog on software and personal productivity recommends downloads, web sites and shortcuts that help you work smarter and save time.

Metafilter
Still one of the best "you never know what you'll read today" destinations, it lets users contribute links highlighting interesting stuff he or she finds on the Web.

Powerline
An American political blog, providing news and commentary from a conservative point-of-view.

TechCrunch
Group-edited blog about technology companies and products.

TreeHugger
A one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.

Broadcast Media

ABC News
News summaries and headlines with links to full stories. Hourly audio news updates from ABC News Radio and video links require that RealPlayer be downloaded.

BBC News
BBC News Front Page includes text of major stories with links to audio and video using RealPlayer.

CNN Interactive
Choose U.S. and international news from a variety of categories. Audio and video use RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.

Fox News Online
News from the Fox network. File folder or video camera icons indicate whether stories are available with additional information or on video.

NPR Online
News Now links to headlines and stories, On the Air describes upcoming programs and specials. Audio files require the downloadable RealAudio player.

The Weather Channel
National weather news, searchable by city or state.

News Magazines

America's News Magazines
U.S. and international news, business, entertainment, sports, and science from popular news magazines.

Atlantic Unbound
Includes current features available only on the web page, links to the current issue and to the archives of past issues.

MoJo Wire
"Daily news for the skeptical citizen" from Mother Jones, an alternative news monthly. There are links to the current month's issue, previous issues, and a search engine to allow searches by subject.

Newsweek.com
Today's news, top stories from the latest issue, and links to the magazine's table of contents, overseas editions, special issues and a photo gallery.

The American Spectator
This conservative monthly magazine covers news and politics in the United States.

The Nation
The table of contents of the current issue, with links to some of the stories. Also includes archives of issues back to 1996, and a search engine which searches full-text articles from the web site.

Time.com
Brief descriptions with links to stories from the current issue. Time Daily links to the day's stories, and a search box allows keyword searching of past stories.

U.S. News Online
Top stories from the current issue, a search box to the archives, and links to back issues are features of this site.

World News Digest
Domestic and world news coverage from 1940 to the present.

Popular Magazines

Byte
Weekly computer magazine with archives by issue from 1994, and by topic.

Good Housekeeping
Advice about food and recipes, home and family, finances, and more.

Ladies Home Journal Online
Highlights of the current issue and special features available only on the web page.

Reader's Digest Interactive
Selected stories, chances to interact with other site users, and a website archive.

Sports Illustrated
Online articles from the magazine, a listing of additional articles to be found in the current issue and to previous issues, and links to special online features.

TV Guide
Television listings, news and gossip, and interactive features.

Magazines - Mega Sites

Internet Public Library: Magazines
A searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative magazine websites

Kidon Media Link Magazines
Magazines about news and current events listed by region and then by country.

Magatopia.com
Links to online magazines organized by subject.

Magazines Online
Information about magazines and links to their websites.

Newslink
Newslink has 4000+ U.S. and Canadian papers cross- indexed by category, state and province, as well as U.S. and Canadian magazines, and U.S. television and radio stations.

The Magazine Boy
Read thousands of magazines online with this magazine directory. Searchable by country, title, subject or language.

World and Alternative Media

AlterNet.org
Syndication service and online community of the alternative press, featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and web publications.

Common Dreams
News and views for the progressive community.

Democracy Now!
Daily independent news, analysis, and opinion.

Google News
Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world's news sources.

Human Events
Conservative news site featuring commentary, links and blogs.

IMC - Independent Media Center
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

University of Washington Libraries link to World News Sources on the internet
A detailed list of international news sources throughout the world divided by geographic area. Based on paper subscriptions at UW, most have links to each newspaper's website. Includes newspapers from many Mideast countries within the "Near East" section.

Utne Reader Online
UTNE READER reprints the best articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources bringing you the latest ideas and trends emerging in our culture

 

Revised 9/17/2008


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