Subject Guides: News Research: Current National & International News

General Interest

US Newsstream
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. Features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, 1990-present (varies by title). Can filter results to news only.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full text of more than 2200 U.S. and international news sources including the New York Times (1999 to present), Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title.
LGBTQ+ Source
Provides indexing and abstracts for news sources and periodicals. Includes full text access to many regional newspapers. Can filter results to news only.
Nexis Uni
Full-text documents from over 5,900 sources, including national and regional newspapers, legal news, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and non-English language sources.

New York Times UMaine Access Pass
Use your maine.edu email address to activiate your free subscription
ProPublica
Independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Freely available online.

Media Intelligence Center This link opens in a new window
The Alliance for Audited Media - Media Intelligence Center (formerly Audit Bureau of Circulations) provides third-party audited statements of circulation for newspapers and periodicals, primarily in North America. The library subscription allows access to reports covering the last ten years. The database is searchable by a variety of parameters, including title, parent company, city, classification, newspaper frequency, and circulation size. Access is limited to one user at a time.

Gale directory of publications and broadcast media
In each volume, you can search for a publication by state and then title, and get the total circulation stats for each publication of interest.
Editor & Publisher Newspaper Data Book
In each volume, you can search for a publication by state and then title, and get the total circulation stats for each publication of interest.

Locate newspaper titles throughout the world using Newspaper Map