News/Newspapers Research Guide

News/Newspapers Research Guide

What Is News?

Why Consult the News?

Current Events/Today's News

Selected Canadian Newspapers

Historical Newspapers

Political Affiliation ?

What is News?

News is defined as timely, occurring now or will occur in the future. It is tied to an issue currently in the news. News is what is reported in newspapers, news broadcasts, news blogs, and RSS (Rich Site Summary) news aggregators. News is interesting and relevant to the lives of readers, viewers or listeners.

Newspapers are a daily or weekly publication printed on unbound sheets of folded paper. They contain current events, reports of general interest, articles on subjects of current, historical or biographical interest and advertisements. A broadsheet is a full-size newspaper, sometimes mistakenly called a broadside. A tabloid is a newspaper of less-than-standard size and reports the news in a less serious more sensational style. Newspapers are the printed public memoirs of a community.

Many newspapers now have a website, often with an archive, however, most online newspapers usually provide only a limited free archive.

Why Consult the News?

Research shows that students who use newspapers as a learning resource have a better awareness of current issues and events, and the world at large.

Newspapers are a great source of statistical information, local news coverage, immediate news coverage, photographs, editorials and local opinions.

Historians use newspapers to learn facts about specific events, to look for long-term trends, and to search for details or the “texture” surrounding an event, a fact or a story that illuminates or complicates a larger pattern. Newspapers are often the first kind of source historians turn to for gathering evidence.

Worldpress.org website is one of the web’s largest and most comprehensive directories of world newspapers and magazines, sorted by Country, region, and political affiliation.

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