News and Current Events Subject Guide
News Archives
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This archive is composed of photos, graphics, text, and audio clips from the Associated Press (AP). The photo archive contains photographs from the current year's collection and a selection of images of negatives and prints dating back to the 1840s. Most of the coverage is from 1995. The graphics archive includes graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos prepared by AP artists since 1999. The audio database has more than half a million audio clips from the 1920s to the present. The text database contains over 700,000 full-text AP articles. All are updated daily.
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An extensive archive of network television news in the U.S. since 1968 has been indexed for research by Vanderbilt University. The index is free, but registration is required to use it. There is a fee for ordering video's of newscasts.
Listed by state and city, includes name of paper, link to site, coverage dates and cost.