Useful News Websites
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The Chronicle
Website of the popular North East daily paper. -
The Sunderland Echo
The website of The Sunderland Echo newspaper
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BBC News (Wear)
Regional page on the BBC News website focussing on the Sunderland area.
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BBC News (Tyne)
Regional page on the BBC News website focussing on the Newcastle area.
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BBC News (Tees)
Regional page on the BBC News website focussing on the Middlesbrough area.
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ITV News Tyne Tees
Regional news from ITV covering the North East.
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BBC News
Website for the BBC News services.
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The Independent
Website of The Independent newspaper.
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The Mail (Online)
Website of The Daily Mail newspaper.
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The Guardian
Website of The Guardian newspaper.
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The Mirror Online
Website of the Daily Mirror newspaper.
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The Telegraph
Latest news, business, sport, comment, lifestyle and culture from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph TV.
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The Observer
Website of The Observer newspaper, a sister paper to The Guardian.
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The Express
Website of The Express newspaper
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Indy100
From The Independent.
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The Financial Times online edition (FT.com)
Website of The Financial Times newspaper. Note: some content is restricted by a fee subscription.
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Al Jazeera
English version of the Arabic-language news network. Breaking news and features plus background material including profiles and global reactions.
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CNN
Newsfeeds from CNN (The Cable News Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.)
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Reuters
Website for Reuters News Agency.
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OnlineNewspapers.com
Free index to 1000s of online newspapers worldwide. Arranged by geographical area. Note not all are free although headlines can often be viewed free of charge.
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Wikipedia: List of Online Newspaper Archives
This is a list of free and pay wall blocked digital online newspaper archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Some newspapers do not allow access to the OCR-converted text until it is proofread. Older newspapers are still in image format, and newer newspapers are available as full text that can be cut and pasted. Most text is in ASCII, some are using Unicode for diacritical marks not available in ASCII. Google now indexes many newspaper archives.
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The British Newspaper Archive
This service offers online access to hundreds of historic titles published in regional cities of the UK from approximately 1700-1940. It offers a wealth of resources for social, economic and political historians, including access to original illustrations, advertisements and text. To view the full text of titles available go to the advanced search form and consult the drop down list of newspapers. It is designed for individual historians and requires a subscription for full text viewing. Some iconic dates (such as Waterloo) are offered free of charge.
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Google News Archive
Google have digitised and made freely available a selection of 19th and 20th century newspapers, mostly from the United States but there are a few titles from other countries as well.
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Chronicling America - The Library of Congress historic American newspapersThe Chronicling America site is a project of the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). It provides free access to a selection of digitised full text newspaper articles from titles published between 1900-1910 in a selection of US states including California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. These are a rich source of information on the social, political and economic history of the United States during this time. They include coverage of political parties and elections from a state viewpoint. The project website also offers free access to a searchable directory of American newspapers published from 1690 to the present day. This offers bibliographic details and holdings records for the Library of Congress but not the full text.
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Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive’s Wayback machine might not spring to mind when you need breaking news, but because it allows you to look at a website the way it appeared on the date it was saved, it can be a fascinating way to explore how the news looked on a certain day in time. If you’re researching a major event and want to see what it looked like in context, you might consider seeing how different news websites reported it on a certain day.