by Eric Alterman, New Yorker, March 31, 2008.Quick Start: Google News, Yahoo News, MSNBC News
by Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, September 18, 2007. "In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free."
There is a Contents page. Sections include
Arts,
Books,
Breaking News,
Business,
New York Times: Latest Headlines (Blogspace),
Dining & Wine,
Education,
Health,
Home & Garden,
International,
Movies,
National,
Obituaries,
Op-Ed Columns Archive,
Politics,
Sports,
Style,
Technology and
Weather. There is an Archive of over 500,000 articles dating back to 1996. Articles published within the last week are free and you can purchase older articles for as little as $.80.
or Google to locate stories.
provides local, national and international news and commentary. See The Sound of A Newspaper: Post Radio Hits the Air by Paul Farhi, Washington Post, March 31, 2006.
- in which you can hear the article read. See, for example, Global warming called 'unequivocal' by Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew C. Revkin, February 2, 2007. Fore each article the newspaper gives you the following choices: e-email article, listen to article, printer-friendly, 3-column format, translate, share article, add to clippings, and text size.
- "1500 publications éditées par plus de 800 sociétés."
- "Independent, non-profit newsroom that will produce investigative journalism in the public interest." Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal is President and editor-in-chief. "When fully staffed, we will be a team of 24 journalists dedicated to reporting on abuses of power by anyone with power: government, business, unions, universities, school systems, doctors, hospitals, lawyers, courts, nonprofits, media. We'll publish through our Web site and also possibly through newspapers, magazines or TV programs, offering our material free if they provide wide distribution. Pro Publica is the brainchild of San Francisco entrepreneurs-turned-philanthropists Herbert and Marion Sandler, who along with some other donors are providing $10 million a year in funding. The idea is that we, along with others of similar bent, can in some modest way make up for some of the loss in investigative-reporting resources that results from the collapse of metro newspapers' business model. (Read All About It: How Newspapers Got Into Such a Fix and Where They Go From Here by Paul E. Steiger, Wall Street Journal, December 29-30, 2007.)
- Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia are currently available. See Library of Congress press release - Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program and Chronicling America and Building the National Digital Newspaper Program, a November 6, 2007 webcast [73 minutes].
- This is a valuable resource, frequently updated. The State and Federal Issues page provides extensive resources to various issues. See, for example, the section on Eminent Domain legislation and Kelo v. New London. "NCSL is summarizing and posting 2006 bills as they pass the legislatures. The summaries include a link to the legislation or to the legislature's bill tracking system." You'll find information on court decisions, legislation, presentations and podcasts, publications and staff contacts. There is also a searchable database of State Legislatures Internet Links.
