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Global Poverty: News

Fake News

Fake news may seem like a joke but it is a real problem - see Facebook's fake news problem in one chart.  "Real news" is written by professional journalists who adhere to ethical guidelines for gathering and writing the news. The library has created a research guide that helps you to both evaluate news and also detect fake or suspicious sources.  For more information on our newspaper sources see the complete collection in our electronic resource database.

North American and UK News

Access World News. News from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. Offers strong regional coverage for California.

Alt-Press Watch (APW). Alternative, radical, and independent magazines, newspapers, and journals in North America. 

CQ Weekly.  Nonpartisan information about US government and congressional affairs. Part of the CQ Electronic Library collection.

The Economist. General interest news about current trends in business, politics and economics worldwide.  For historical issues see the Economist Historical Archive which provides access from 1843.

Ethnic News Watch (ENWH). Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.

Factiva. General and business news from sources in 22 languages, including local, national and international news. Includes The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Dow Jones.

Financial Times.  Access to the Financial Times from January 1998 to present. For historical access see the Financial Times Historical Archive which has the complete run of the daily Financial Times from 1888 to recent years.

International Newsstream. Articles from hundreds of newspapers worldwide, plus reports from media monitoring organizations which include wire services.  Content is displayed in ASCII format.

Meet the Press.  Includes the full surviving run of this institution of American broadcast journalism from the premiere in 1947 to 2013, with thousands of interviews, panels, and debates.

New York Times.  Full-text coverage of the New York Times. For Historical issues see Historical Newspapers (ProQuest).

Nexis Uni. Full-text source for current affairs, legal information and news appearing in newspapers, journals, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, reference works and other documents.

Selected Global News

Access World News. Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. Offers strong regional coverage for California newspapers.

All Africa.Com. Contains over 700,000 articles from 120 news publications throughout Africa. 

Africa-Wide Information. Database covering journals, magazines, newspapers, broadcasts, and more on Africa including politics, history, economics, literature, music and natural sciences

Factiva. General and business news and information from sources in 22 languages, including local, national and international newspapers, business magazines, trade publications, and wires. 

Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Includes radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information from non-English sources around the world, from 1941-1996. 

Financial Times.  Access to the Financial Times from January 1998 to present. For historical access see the Financial Times Historical Archive which has the complete run of the daily Financial Times from 1888 through 2006.

International Newstream. Articles from hundreds of newspapers worldwide, plus reports from media monitoring organizations which include broadcast and wire service content. 

International Coalition of Newspapers.  A database of more than 20,000 newspaper titles from over 150 countries dating back over 350 years. A useful source for identifying the titles of newspapers from a region during a given time period. 

ISLA Information Services. Comprehensive overview of U.S. and British media coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin America Advisor. Online news service published by the Inter-American Dialogue.

Radio Free Europe. Free news source (with archives) covering Russia, Transcaucases, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

The Times of India.Historical newspaper with articles in colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender, international relations, comparative religion, economics and more.

Wise News. Hundreds of newspapers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries. In Chinese and English. Limited to five simultaneous users.