News Broadcasts
- UCLA Film & Television Archive News and Public Affairs (NAPA) CollectionConsists of over 100,000 news programs and broadcasts taped off air from 1979 to 2003. Titles from the collection can be made available for research viewing on the UCLA campus in the Instructional Media Lab (IML), located in room 270 of the Powell Library. Viewing requests must be made in advance through the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC).
- UCLA Film & Television Archive Catalog This link opens in a new windowIncludes a significant number of television news and public affairs programming ranging from 1949 into the 2000s. For news and public affairs programming prior to 1980, search the general collection. Researchers interested in broadcasts from 1980-2003 should search both the NAPA collection database and the general collection catalog. Search for newsreels as Topic or genre/form search to find thousands of records for unedited newsreel footage.
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Indexes network evening news broadcasts from the major US national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. Includes historical streaming video from NBC (since 1968) and CNN. - Meet the Press This link opens in a new window
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Includes streaming video of the full surviving broadcast run to date for Meet the Press (1947-present).
- TV News Archive (Internet Archive)Contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.
Online Current News Sources
UCLA subscribes to a number of databases with current newspaper content from the last few years. If connecting from home, make sure your computer is configured for off-campus access.
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Full-text news (including broadcast transcripts), business, legal, and reference information. Useful for finding full-text of current performing arts and media industry news in major newspapers. Includes biographical information from Who's Who titles. Formerly LexisNexis Academic. - Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Includes a range of recent full text international newspapers and industry/company news in magazines like Hollywood Reporter. - Access World News — Historical and Current This link opens in a new window
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Full-text articles from over 4,756 US and international blogs, journals, newspapers, newswires, videos, and web sources. Date coverage varies with individual newspapers. Formerly called America's Newspapers or NewsBank. - New York Times This link opens in a new window
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Full text (no ads or pictures) from 1980 to the present. For access to older issues, see Proquest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times [1851-2019] - Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
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Full text (no ads or pictures) from 1985 to the present. For access to older issues, see Proquest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times [1881-2015]. - Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
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Full text, from 1984 to present. For access to older issues, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal [1889-2012].
Online Historical Newspaper Databases
UCLA subscribes to a number of databases with both current and historical newspaper content. If connecting from home, make sure your computer is configured for off-campus access.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times This link opens in a new window
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1851 to 2019. For access to current issues, see The New York Times [1980-present]. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1881 to 2015. For access to current issues, see Los Angeles Times [1985-present]. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
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Full page and article images with searchable full text, covering 1849-2013 of the paper. For access to current issues, see Chicago Tribune [1985-present].
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Full page and article images with searchable full text, from 1889 to 2012. For access to current issues, see Wall Street Journal [1984-present]. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (including Daily Defender) is included as part of Black Studies Center (1921-2010). Proquest's Chicago Defender content does not include the newspaper's "City Edition," which is currently only available on microfilm.
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1877 to 2007. For access to current issues, see Washington Post [1987-present]. - Times of London Digital Archive, 1785-2014 This link opens in a new window
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Includes full text and page images of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertising and images (excluding the Sunday Times) for 1785-2014. - Irish Newspaper Archives This link opens in a new window
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Full text of many Irish newspapers, including both historical and current content. - Facts on File World News Digest This link opens in a new window
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World news digest for 1940-present. Includes stories on people, stats, and world events from the top news stories for each decade. - World Newspaper Archive (Center for Research Libraries) This link opens in a new window
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American, African, Latin American, and South Asian newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. UCLA subscribes to a subset of this collection. - Keesing's Worldwide Online This link opens in a new window
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Digest of political, social, and economic events for all countries of the world from 1931 to the present. Includes over 175,000 full text reports.