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Local
Media
Berkshire
Eagle
- News, weather,
sports, arts and entertainment for Pittsfield and Berkshire County.
- BusinessWest
Online
- Sections of
the Western Mass. business journal available online, including the latest
bankruptcy filings, DBA certificates, incorporations, building permits, and
real estate transactions.
- GazetteNET:
Daily Hampshire Gazette Online
- Covers news,
activities, entertainment, dining, and more for the Pioneer Valley.
- Greenfield
Recorder
- Online news,
sports, weather, arts & entertainment, and classifieds for Franklin County.
- The
Hartford Courant
- The major Connecticut
newspaper is online.
- MassLive
- Extensive coverage of Springfield
and Western Massachusetts from the local newspaper the Springfield Republican
(formerly Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican), including
news and weather, arts & entertainment listings, classifieds, sports and business
coverage, and interactive online forums for discussion of issues of local
interest. For the online archives of the Springfield Republican, visit
our Electronic Databases page (Western Mass.
library card required).
- The
Reminder
- The Reminder
newspaper has its own website, with news of interest to Springfield and its
surrounding towns, classifieds, links to other sites of interest, and interactive
community bulletin boards for activities in Greater Springfield and the Pioneer
Valley. Includes links to the Chicopee Herald, Prime Times,
a newspaper for local seniors, and The Journal Bravo, a local arts
& entertainment publication.
- Springfield Cable Endowment
- The Springfield Cable Endowment (Channel 18B) was created to support directly the production, promotion or acquisition of educational, cultural, and informative programming for the Springfield Cable System. The Endowment provides the general public a means to accomplish innovative and creative programming, drawing upon local talent and expertise.
- Valley
Advocate
- The Pioneer
Valley's alternative newspaper. Includes information on upcoming arts and
entertainment events.
- WFCR-FM
Amherst MA
- UMass-Amherst
is home to the Valley's National Public Radio affiliate, bringing us 24 hours
of music, public affairs, news and cultural programming and commentary, including
programs produced locally as well as those from NPR and Public Radio International.
- WGGB-TV
Springfield MA
- Springfield's
ABC affiliate, Channel 40. Local and regional coverage of news, weather and
sports.
- WHYN
News Talk 560
- Springfield's
local talk and news radio station.
- WWLP-TV
Springfield MA
- Channel 22,
Springfield's local television NBC affiliate. Updated stories on breaking
City and area news, weather and sports.
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National
Media & Breaking News
- AJR/News
Link
- A service of
the American Journalism Review, this site links you to hundreds of newspapers
and other news services. You can search by state, or visit one of the major
metropolitan newspapers. Includes news and information of interest to the
journalism profession.
- AAN:
Publication Directory
- Information
about and links to alternative publications from around the country, from
the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
- The
Boston Globe Online
- Check the daily
news, read late-breaking stories on the AP Newswire, and search the archives
for older stories. For
the online archives of the Boston Globe, visit our Electronic
Databases page (Massachusetts library card required).
- CNN
Interactive
- This national
news organization provides continuously-updated reports and many other features.
- Daypop
- Search thousands
of news sites, weblogs and RSS feeds for current events and breaking news.
- Documents
in the News
- Identifies issues
in the news, adding additional web sources and other information. From the
Documents Center at the University of Michigan Library.
- Facts
for Features
- From the US
Census Bureau. Each Facts for Features consists of a collection of statistics
pertinent to a particular holiday or special observance; they serve as background
for reporters who write or broadcast feature stories. The data are gleaned
from demographic and economic subject areas across the Census Bureau.
- Google
News
- Search engine
for breaking news around the country and around the world. From Google.
- 1stHeadlines
- Check here for
breaking news in politics, government, health, business and other topics.
- Journalist's
Toolbox
- Online resources
for reporters and editors. Features more than 20,000 web resources helpful
to the media and anyone else doing research.
- National
Public Radio Home Page
- Catch up on
what's happening on NPR. Includes sound files of broadcasts which you can
download and listen to at home.
- News
Briefings
- The staff of
the U.S. News library has compiled background information, basic facts,
biographies of key players, and links to relevant documents and Web sites.
From US News & World Report.
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- NewsDirectory
- Access online
newspapers and magazines around the country and around the world. Indexed
by country.
- News
Voyager
- A gateway to
local newspapers throughout the US.
- New
York Times on the Web
- Full content
of the national newspaper is online, along with extras, such as audio interviews,
first chapters from books reviewed and much more. Although the site is FREE,
registration is required. Some archival issues require payment.
- New
York Times Archive Search
- Search the Article
Archive: 1851-present for more than 15 million articles from Sept. 1851. Microfilm of the New York Times is available at the Central Library.
- OnlineNewspapers
- Read the news
in your NATIVE language. Newspapers from around the world indexed by country.
- Opinion
Pages
- Access to the
most current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English
newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web.
- PublicRadioFan.com
- Features program
listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Follow the
audio links to hear your favorite programs and discover new ones. Requires
installation of proper
audio software.
- The
Smoking Gun
- The Smoking
Gun presents exclusive documents that can't be found elsewhere on the Web,
using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom
of Information requests, and from court files nationwide. The site was founded
in April 1997. In December 2000, The Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV,
a basic cable network with more than 72 million subscribers.
- STATS:
Statistical Assessment Service
- Resource on
the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Its goals are to
correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science,
politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource
for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies.
- USA
Today
- This national
newspaper's website keeps you up to date on late-breaking stories, scores,
and financial information.
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Newspaper
& Magazine Archives
- British
Pathe
- Preview items
from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport,
social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. You can also license higher
resolution copies of the same items for PowerPoint Presentations and Web Publishing,
or simply buy a still from the item for private use.
- FindArticles.com
- Archive of published
articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles
dating back to 1998 from more than 300 popular interest magazines and journals.
Browse the categories or use the search engine.
- Historical
New York Times Project
- Ongoing digitization
program, which iincludes newspaper issues covering the Civil War and the Turn
of the Century 1900-1907.
- MagPortal.com
- Find individual
articles from many free magazines by browsing the categories or using the
search engine.
- Newspaper
Indexes, Archives and Morgues
- An Internet
resource page from the Library of Congress.
- US
News Archives on the Web
- Links to United
States news archives available on the Web. Provides the dates of the archive,
along with the cost to retrieve the full text of articles. Unless noted, searching
is free. Charges may apply to retrieve stories. From the News Division of
the Special Libraries Association.
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