Finding Foreign News Online
World News Connection has not been publicly updated since 2013. While nothing can quite compare with the translations of news written in the local language for local audiences that WNC offered, BBC Monitoring Reports offers some translated news. Other news databases offer news written in English, but local to a particular country.
Provided by Lexis/Nexis Academic. News and information based on round-the-clock monitoring of radio, TV, press, internet and news agency sources around the world is provided by BBC Monitoring. Reports are translated into English from more than 100 languages
New York Times (1851-2010), Wall Street Journal (1889-1996), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1990), Los Angeles Times (1881-1990), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), NY Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), and Washington Post
(1877-1997).
Locating international historic newspapers can be difficult. Use ICON (International Coalition on Newspapers) to find newspapers and their formats.
Covers all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present and most UK and Irish provincial newspapers.
1948-1983. Cumulation of all reports contained in the Foreign countries section of Newspapers in microform.
1906-2011. Covers U.K, foreign and international newspapers. Publication, circulation and personnel information, advertising rates, and summary of content included in each entry.
1982-2008. German newspaper directory.
Covers Austrian and German newspapers.
1800-1900. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh newspaper directory.
Covers all subjects in 45 important periodicals published in Great Britain and Ireland. Each periodical has its own introduction. Includes tables of contents and notes on contributors, with bibliographies of their articles and stories.
Extensive resources here including checklists, databases and catalogs of English and foreign language newspapers. Also covers comics.
Includes English language newspapers from around the World. Trial through Spring 2016
Founded in 1875, Al-Ahram (الأهرام, “The Pyramids”) is one of the longest-running newspapers in the Middle East. It has long been regarded as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential newspaper, and one of the most important newspapers in the Arab world.
Provided by Lexis/Nexis Academic. News and information based on round-the-clock monitoring of radio, TV, press, internet and news agency sources around the world is provided by BBC Monitoring. Reports are translated into English from more than 100 languages
Full-text, thousands of sources from all over the world, in 22 languages. Coverage varies by title. NOTE: click on News Pages to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries. Coverage goes back several decades; varies by title.
Le Monde is a daily afternoon newspaper that brings the latest coverage from France, Europe, and all around the world, unique perspectives and in-depth analysis.
Coverage: Rolling 365-day access
Le Monde is a daily afternoon newspaper that brings the latest coverage from France, Europe, and all around the world, unique perspectives and in-depth analysis.
Search together 5 historical collections of British and American newspapers: Burney Collection (17th and 18th C.), 19th century British and US newspapers, the Times (London), and the Economist.
1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. From the collection at the British Library. For more information from the British Library see their guide to the Collection.
The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 are presented in digitized format here.
Searchable full text and page images of 48 national and regional British newspapers.
Coverage: 1949 - 1997
Al-Ba’ath was founded in 1948 as an organ of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. Functioning initially as an opposition newspaper to the Nasserist government, Al-Ba’ath became the government organ of Syria following the Ba’athist coup in 1963. Al-Ba’ath shows the viewpoint of the Ba’ath Party through opinion columns and news coverage, while also including coverage of popular culture—including sports and music.
The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers. The evolution of the region across two centuries chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 islands. Essential for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics.
Part of Shanghai Library's 全国报刊索引 (CNBKSY) platform, the database includes full-text with PDF images of the original print version for multiple newspapers, including:
Sheng-ching Shih-pao 盛京时报, 1906~1944 - a Japanese newspaper (in Chinese) that enjoyed huge influence in the Northeast China.
Shun Pao 申报, 1872~1949 - the most important modern Chinese newspaper, complete coverage of all 27,534 issues (Shanghai, Hankou, and Hong Kong versions).
The China Times 时事新报, 1911~1948 - one of the "Four Major Newspapers" in Shanghai during the Republic of China.
The National Herald 神州日报, 1907~1946 - the first large-scale daily newspaper founded by the revolutionaries of the late Qing Dynasty. 综合专辑(1897-1949), 精心選取近3,000 種覆蓋中國各地,包括北京、上海、香港、武漢等近代報業發達的城市,以及海外出版的中文報紙.
North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists 字林洋行中英文报纸全文数据库, 1850~1951 - covers the English and Chinese newspapers published by North-China Daily News & Herald, Limited, the largest British-founded press agency in Shanghai..
The China Press, 1911~1949 - Initiated by Chinese and founded by Americans, The China Press adopted the American editing style and was the first known English newspaper published in modern China by professional journalists instead of businessmen or missionaries.
The Donetsk and Luhansk Newspaper Collection incorporates 10 rare newspapers from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk (Lugansk, in local spelling) republics of Ukraine.
With sources primarily in Russian, this database allows analysts and researchers unprecedented access to articles and reports from these insurgent regions at the most important and critical junctures.
Coverage: Daily Nation- 1962- 2017
Ethiopian Herald- 1943-2014
Monitor- 1993- 2003
The collection includes over 800,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald, and The Monitor (Uganda).
Full-text archive of major, local, internet, and industry newspapers, magazines, and TV reports since 1990. Some publications go back to the period of Japanese rule.
The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers collection traces the history of Ukraine starting in the 1990s, and the events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005). Comprising over 900 titles, this database includes local newspapers from over 340 cities and towns—including publications from each of Ukraine’s 27 regions.
Many of the titles are in Ukrainian and Russian; this collection also includes ethnic newspapers in languages such as: Armenian, Crimean Tatar, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, and more. A limited number of contemporaneous Ukrainian community publications from other territories are also included.
Pravda ("Truth") was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper, and it soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.
Coverage: 1838 - 2010
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1800-1922
This collection contains more than 420,000 pages of content from newspapers published throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The database features 67 titles from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and other countries.
Coverage: 1805-1922
This collection provides access to nearly 300 newspapers from across Latin America from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
WNA-South Asia contains more than 500,000 pages of content from 10 newspapers published throughout the subcontinent.
Full-text translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-US news sources. Earlier newspaper translations can be found in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) series.
Mostly free access. Links to scores of archives by country, in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, and Australia. From Providence College.
Free and pay sites included. See links to digitized newspaper archives from around the world, by country. From ICON, (International Coalition on Newspapers) based at the Center for Research Libraries
Over 100 contemporary Latin-American news resources, mostly in Spanish, many with archives that don't go back very far. Scroll down page for links to Spanish language papers in the U.S. From LANIC, the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin.