LibGuides: News Research Guide: Current News

Databases

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Thousands of newspaper titles, including 75 MS news sources; as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. Explore tens of millions of current and archived news articles and obituaries in order to pinpoint information from primary sources at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.

Local News

The Commercial Dispatch
Daily newspaper serving Columbus and Starkville
The Columbus Packet
Weekly newspaper serving Columbus and neighboring communities
Mississippi Today
Mississippi Today: The state's only nonpartisan, nonprofit digital news and information resource that aggressively and objectively covers state and local news.
Starkville Daily News
Daily newspaper serving Starkville and Oktibbeha County
WBCI News
CBS affiliate serving Columbus and North Mississippi
The Clarion-Ledger
The Clarion-Ledger is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the second oldest company in the state of Mississippi and is one of only a few newspapers in the nation that continues to circulate statewide.
WTVA News
NBC/ABC affiliate serving Tupelo and Columbus

Websites

Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English is an international news channel owned and operated by Al Jazeera Media Network, headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the first English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East.
Associated Press
News from The Associated Press, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.
BBC
The BBC is a UK based broadcasting organization. They are impartial, independent, and they create distinctive, world-class programs and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people around the world.
CNN
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fox News
FOX News Channel is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.
Google News
Google News is a news aggregate and app developed by Google. It presents a continuous, customizable flow of articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines.
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S.
NPR
NPR is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., with a particular emphasis on national politics and the federal government. It has the largest circulation in the Washington metropolitan area.