Key starting points
To locate the Web version of a newspaper or magazine, try one of the
following:
ABYZ News Links www.abyznewslinks.com
Fast-loading site that lists over 15,600 newspapers and other news
sources by country and by region within each country. There is a language
code next to each newspaper and separate links to alternative language
versions if they are available.
Kidon Media-Link www.kidon.com/media-link/
Lists 18,437 newspapers and other news sources from around the world. Newspaper, magazine, television, radio, and news agency sources are listed by country. You can also browse by language or search by media type, title and city. The results include a link to the source, a two letter code indicating the type of resource (news agency, radio, newspaper etc.), the frequency of publication, and the languages in which it is published or broadcast.
Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com
Another useful listing organized by continent and then country.
Journalism UK www.journalismuk.co.uk
Concentrates on UK newspapers, and has a particularly good list of UK
regional newspapers and links to magazine publishers.
If you want to search the Web for current news but don't relish the prospect
of accessing each news source separately, try one of the multi-source
services
Trade publications
For trade or industry publications, try searching on the publication
name or use one of the following directories:
Ulrich's Periodicals
Directory www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory is the resource for tracking down
periodicals of all types. It provides detailed and comprehensive information
on serials published throughout the world, covers all subjects, and includes
publications that are published regularly or irregularly and circulated
free of charge or by paid subscription. This is a subscription service
with rates starting at US $1,450 a year for a single user subscription.
Trade Publications www.tradepub.com
TradePub.com offers online subscription services for US controlled
circulation publications.
News Directory www.newsdirectory.com
World-wide coverage but not comprehensive.
MagPortal www.magportal.com
Covers a selection of free magazines, mainly US, that are available on
the Internet. You can browse the categories or use the search engine to
tack down individual articles.
Multi-source services
Accoona News www.accoona.com
Publication coverage is excellent and includes a good range of industry
sectors and international, regional and local sources. Results can be
sorted by date and relevance but the SuperTarget goes even further and
enables you to narrow down your search by publisher, companies and people
mentioned in the articles, country and state. The "When published" feature
includes an option for "More than 30 days ago" but this does limit you
to only those sources that offer free access beyond this date.
Ask www.ask.co.uk or www.ask.com
Covers the last 30 days of free news. No email or RSS alerts currently
available.
BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/ or news.bbc.co.uk
Well known news service covering stories from around the world and you can watch BBC News 24 live. As well as text articles, there are videos of news items, podcasts and RSS feeds.
Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers www.chipwrapper.co.uk
Chipwrapper is a Custom Google Search Engine that searches across the UK's major national newspapers: The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The People, News of the World, The Scotsman, Daily Star, The Telegraph and The Times. It also searches the BBC News web site, ITN and Sky. It carries out a Google web search of these sources, not a Google News search, so although you cannot sort the results by date you do pull up older, archival material that is not included in the standard 30 days of Google News. As many of the newspapers give the date as part of the text of the stories you can often limit your search to a year and sometimes a specific month by simply including the month and year in your search. Also available are RSS feeds for the top headlines, general sport, rugby and football headlines, and a Chipwrapper browser search plugin is available for IE7 and Firefox 2.
Google News news.google.com
Last 30 days of news from local, regional, national and international
sources. News is updated throughout the day and Google automatically puts
links to the same story from different sources in the same search result.
This makes it easier to scan the headlines without the clutter of repeat
articles, but also gives you the option of reading the alternative versions
provided by different sources.
For articles older than 30 days try Google News Archive Search at http://news.google.com/archivesearch. Results are sorted by relevance but you can select to view them by date or display a timeline. The Advanced Search includes options for searching by date, source, language and price. The source coverage is not the same as the current Google News search and Google Archive News uses third party services such as Access My Library and Press Display, which can delete sources and archives at any time. (See the blog posting on Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers).
Many of the articles are priced and it may be cheaper to buy them elsewhere on a pay as you go service, for example Factiva.
Live Search News www.live.com
Click on the News link on the home page. Most of the stories are from the last 30 days but some sources appear to be providing information older than that. Results are sorted by relevance and there is no option to change this to 'by date'.
Moreover
www.moreover.com/site/products/ind/rss_feeds.html
Moreover brings together articles from over 10,000 online news and information
sources. This page on the Moreoeversite offers over 330 predefined categories
of news as RSS news feeds. These feeds are free but advertising supported.
News Now www.newsnow.co.uk
An unashamedly UK news service that gathers together stories from a wide
range of UK sources. Headlines are listed under sections (Business and
Finance, IT, Current Affairs, Sport, Gaming and Entertainment). Headlines
are updated every 5 minutes and you can search the headlines of a 30 day
archive.
Yahoo News www.yahoo.com
Claims to cover around 7,500 sources and provides access to the last
30 days of news. The Advanced Search features include limit by publication,
location and time period. There is a free email and RSS Alerts service.
Priced Services
BBC Monitoring Online www.monitor.bbc.co.uk
Global business, international politics and macroeconomic news from
BBC Monitoring. This site covers thousands of business and political news
reports from radio, newspaper, internet, television and news agency broadcasts
from over 3,000 sources in more than 150 countries. These reports are
monitored live, translated into English and then edited by BBC World Service
journalists. Factiva.com www.factiva.com
Comprehensive news service now available on a pay-as-you-go basis as well
as by annual subscription. There is an annual subscription of US$69 for
the pay as you go option.
LexisNexis www.lexisnexis.com.
Lexis-Nexis a subscription service. Its pay-as-you-go 'à la carte' was discontinued on 3rd December 2007.
Circulation and
distribution figures
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC)
www.abc.org.uk
ABC audits the circulation of over 3400 magazines and newspapers. The
information is freely available on the Web site and is of particular interest
to advertising agencies and advertisers.
ABC's eCirc
(US and Canada) abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/index.html
A concise and free online source for ABC top-line circulation (based on
the latest released FAS-FAX report) information. Sort and search summarized
circulation data by publication, state/province, U.S. SRDS or Canadian
CARD classifications. Publications types covered are newspapers, consumer
magazines, business publications and farm publications.
JICREG - British Newspaper Readership
Data www.jicreg.co.uk
Joint Industry Committee for Regional Press Research. Offers data
at the location level free of charge (log in as guest). Search by location,
single newspaper, county, Independent Local Radio (ILR) area, ITV region,
Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) area, Registrar-General
area, Local Government area. Information includes demographic profiles
and detailed breakdown of readership. Data can be exported to Excel. Covers
local and regional press only.
Newspaper Society www.newspapersoc.org.uk
The Newspaper Society represents and promotes the interests of over
1300 UK regional and local free and paid for titles. As well as general
information on the industry, there are Facts and Figures on the industry
for example advertising expenditure, circulation and distribution, ownership,
regional mergers and acquisitions and top publishers.
UK
BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Access to current and archive news on events world-wide plus links to
background information and relevant sites. Free service.
Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers www.chipwrapper.co.uk
Chipwrapper is a Custom Google Search Engine that searches across the UK's major national newspapers: The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The People, News of the World, The Scotsman, Daily Star, The Telegraph and The Times. It also searches the BBC News web site, ITN and Sky. It carries out a Google web search of these sources, not a Google News search, so although you cannot sort the results by date you do pull up older, archival material that is not included in the standard 30 days of Google News. As many of the newspapers give the date as part of the text of the stories you can often limit your search to a year and sometimes a specific month by simply including the month and year in your search. Also available are RSS feeds for the top headlines, general sport, rugby and football headlines, and a Chipwrapper browser search plugin is available for IE7 and Firefox 2.
Financial Times www.ft.com
Mostly a subscription service
but the FT has now introduced monthly ‘free views'. If you are an unregistered user you can view just 5 articles free of charge but this increases to 30 if you register. If you want to read more, you are prompted to subscribe for further access. At present, the standard annual personal subscription fee is £98.99. Guardian Unlimited www.guardian.co.uk
Access to current
and archive Web content from the Guardian and The Observer.
Independent Online www.independent.co.uk
Free access to current and archive articles.
Press Association
www.pressassociation.press.net
Information about the Press Association and its services.
Telegraph Newspaper Online www.telegraph.co.uk
Most of the hard copy Daily Telegraph and an option for searching all articles loaded since November 1994. Also carries the Matt cartoons, and Alex - ideal for catching up with that city gent's escapades if you have been on holiday for a while. Also gives access to the interactive crosswords and sudoku. For serious puzzle connoisseurs, the subscription Crossword Society includes a searchable archive containing nearly 3000 crosswords and historical crosswords from the past 80 years.
Times Online
www.timesonline.co.uk
Free access to articles going back to 2000.
UK
Activity Report www.ukactivityreport.co.uk
The UK Activity Report includes information on acquisitions, investment
plans, new projects, strategy and major new product launches. Each event
is summarised in one sentence and contact details for further information
are provided. Sources include national newspapers, local newspapers, trade
journal and press releases. The report is organised by sector (Chemicals
& Pharmaceuticals, Computers & Electronics, Construction, Energy, Engineering,
Financial Services, Food & Drink, Health Care, Leisure, Media, Motor,
Packaging, Transport). Delivery is once a week by e-mail and the price
for an annual subscription (50 issues) is GBP 290. Subscribers also have
access to the full database which can be searched by company name, industry
sector, geographic region and keywords. Subscription required. Past sample issues are at http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/.
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