News & Newspapers
This research guide provides an overview of conducting news research, both current and historical. Includes links to news content, such as newspapers, news magazines, transcripts, video, and wire services available through LSU Libraries.
Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
Elizabeth Allen
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LSU Library, Room 141 A
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3330
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Television News
LSU Libraries Research Databases:
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 500 transcript sources (from both national news broadcasts and local affiliate stations).
To see the full list of available transcripts: Click on "A-Z Source List"; select "Type" from the drop-down menu and enter Transcripts in the search box. - Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new windowThe Foreign Broadcast Information Service is a federal agency that monitors and translates foreign media into English. FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowIncludes full-text television news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC News, PBS, etc.
**In the advanced search, limit "Publication Type" to "Transcript". - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowIncludes full-text transcripts from television news broadcasts from ABC News, BBC, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, etc.
**From the search results page, select "News Transcripts" under "Publication Type" to limit your results to only include transcripts.
Also includes some streaming video of the BBC's television broadcasts.
***From the search results page, select "Video" under "Publication Type" to limit your results to only include streaming video. - Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new windowThe mission of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive focuses on creating, preserving and providing access to the news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks. We create recordings of news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks, preserve the content for future generations, and provide the widest access possible within the copyright limitations.
- 60 Minutes: 1997-2014 This link opens in a new window
The 60 MINUTES: 19972014 collection provides unprecedented access to the CBS News archives, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast.
Online Research Tools:
- AI Television ExplorerAllows users to use state-of-the-art computer vision and natural language AI to visually search a selection of a decade of broadcast television news coverage from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive analyzed by Google's Cloud Video API and Cloud Natural Language API, using the TV AI API 2.0. Options allow users to construct their search or switch to a different dataset like online news or traditional keyword captioning search.
- AP ArchiveCollection of international TV news footage from Associated Press Television News. Includes UPITN & WTN news footage (1963-1998), APTV news footage (1994-1998), and Universal Newsreels (1929-1967).
Coverage: 1929 - present
Free access with registration. - C-SPAN Video LibrarySearch and watch video of congressional proceedings and political commentary.
- Chyron BrowserView a visual dashboard summary of the chyron text overlays of BBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News for the specified date, based on a special research-grade reprocessing of the Internet Archive's Television News Archive "Third Eye" chyron dataset. You can also download the data directly. Displays work best in Google Chrome.
- Chyron ExplorerCreate a visual dashboard that summarizes broadcast television news chyrons matching your search using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive's "Third Eye" OCR stream. Select the dataset to search, the kind of dashboard you want, the specific displays to include in your dashboard and the search to run.
- Internet Archive - TV NewsSearch closed captions from US TV News shows (2009 to yesterday). This research library service is intended to enhance the capabilities of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and other engaged citizens. It repurposes closed captioning to enable users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs.
- Television ExplorerCreate a visual dashboard that summarizes broadcast television news coverage of your search using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, powered by the TV 2.0 API. Select the dataset to search, the kind of dashboard you want, the specific displays to include in your dashboard and the search to run.
Radio News
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowIncludes transcripts from NPR (National Public Radio).
To see the list of available NPR transcripts: Click on "A-Z Source List" and enter [NPR] in the search box. - Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new windowThe Foreign Broadcast Information Service is a federal agency that monitors and translates foreign media into English. FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowIncludes full-text radio news transcripts from NPR.
**In the advanced search, limit "Publication Type" to "Transcript". - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowIncludes some streaming audio of radio broadcasts from the BBC.
***From the search results page, select "audio" under "Publication Type" to limit your results to only include streaming audio.