Newspapers and Current Events


AllAfrica.com

Provides easy access to the latest news from and about Africa, with over 700 news stories posted daily for all areas of the African continent. Also available is a 400,000-item searchable archive dating 1997 to the present. Coverage includes the contents of 127 currently published African newspapers, as well as news feeds from 330 additional African and international news organizations. AllAfrica.com is generally considered to be the best source for current news on Africa.

Alternative press index

Indexes the last twenty years of North America's alternative press, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. 

AP Newsroom

Associated Press photographs, charts, illustrations, stories, audio clips, etc. from the 1800s and updated daily. Searchable on multiple criteria (e.g., time, people, concept, captions, text, etc.).

Chronicle of higher education

This online version features daily reports on developments in higher education, information technology, and distance education. The full text of the current issue of The Chronicle is available every Monday morning, following the Friday print publication. The site features an archive of more than 12 years of The Chronicle. You can access the Chronicle via your smart phone by setting up a free Chronicle account using your KU email address.

Ethnic newswatch

Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses in America from 1959 to present.

Gale OneFile: News

Contains full text content from thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers. Dates of coverage: 1980 to present.

Google news

This computer-generated news site aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide and groups similar stories together.

Japan Times Digital

Covers the contents published in the Japan Times from 1997 to present. This collection also includes images, video and audio files.

Le Monde

Access Frances' largest paper's web site, with world-wide news coverage and specifically coverage of the Francophone world. Content dates from up-to-the minute to 2000.  A portion of the articles are available in English via Le Monde in English. Use the FR and EN links at the top to change languages. This will only work for browser access and is limited to 20 simultaneous users.