Library & Cultural Services: Politics: News. Media

News & Media

Interest in news & media is relevant to political scientists working in many areas, including policy studies, political campaigns & marketing, party platforms, propaganda, social movement studies, events analysis, and so forth. Nor is it restricted to current affairs, since an increasing range of historical sources are also being made available. Methods such as content analysis, discourse analysis, and, increasingly, use of big data can be employed in news analysis.

See also the extensive links to websites concerned with Media, Journalism & Fake News on the Politics subject guide

BBC World News
Reasonable starting point for current events

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. It allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels), create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists. BoB is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Cambridge Imaging Systems and Bournemouth University.

British Library News Data Guide
A great page to start exploring the BLs large and diverse newspaper collections from around the world

Economist.com
The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It publishes all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back June 1997 (for articles published prior to 1997, you will need to use The Economist Historical Archive). It also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.;PLEASE NOTE: The Economist are experiencing issues with certain browsers (particularly Chrome) and recommend using Firefox to access content.
Nexis
Contains company information for 11,000 companies world-wide, daily financial and business news, the full text of the Financial Times. Also includes news from over 2000 global sources with a 40 year archive.
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Pressreader
PressReader is a "virtual news stand" and contains a selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages. You can personalise to show your favourite publications.
OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS: Select "sign in" via "Library or Group". Search for University of Essex. Sign in using "OpenID Connect" and select University of Essex.

Nor is research restricted to current affairs, since an increasing range of historical sources are also being made available, such as:

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015 is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. EHA offers multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys and a selection of exportable financial tables.
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Europeana Newspapers
EU project to digitise historic European newspapers from the 17th century onwards. Huge resource, search facility can be slow

Gale Primary Sources
Artemis Primary Sources (previously called British Newspapers 1601950) from Gale Group includes access to the following databases: 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers; 19th Century UK Periodicals; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012; The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010; The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006; The Times Digital Archive; Independent Digital Archive,1986-2012; Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1791920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert (20th century Press Archives)
Huge archive of around 16 million press clippings initially compiled by the Hamburg Kolonialinstitut, later the Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, and now part of the Leibniz Association. Cuttings cover about 100 years up to 2005, are are divided into 4 sections: topics, products, companies, persons. Digitisation is making good progress, see Wikipedia for further details

Proquest historical newspapers
This historical newspaper archive provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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For further information on newspaper sources see the British Library list of online newspaper resources (some free)

Wikipedia has some useful links to online newspaper archives (some free).

Specialist guides to sources in the library catalogue can be found using the keywords "Newspapers" and "Bibliography"