A new project – SchoolBook – will launch on September 7th, 2011 – a collaboration of the New York Times and WNYC, which will be a site offering daily news, data, and discussion about New York City schools, including customized pages for each of the 1,700 pubic schools and 800 private schools in the city. […]
Category: Newspapers
Database Spotlight: Ethnic NewsWatch
Looking to search ethnic and minority newspapers? Try Ethnic NewsWatch! Ethnic NewsWatch (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates), a full-text database of newspapers and journal articles from ethnic, minority, and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch includes both English and Spanish languages titles from across the U.S., and the interface includes the ability to narrow your search […]
NYT Digital Subscriptions
The New York Times has announced a move to digital subscriptions on March 28th. Read A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions here. There a number of details surrounding the new system, which allows readers to click on up to 20 stories a month, with a couple of additional unrestricted access options. For details, […]
Newseum – Today’s Front Pages
Ever find yourself sitting down with the New York Times and wondering what’s on the front page of the Shreveport Times instead? Curious to know whether the lead story in the Washington Post today rates a mention on page one of South Jersey’s Courier-Post? The Newseum has a great tool that allows you to view […]
NewspaperARCHIVE
NewspaperARCHIVE database has been added to Columbia’s online newspaper collections. This resource contains tens of millions of searchable historical newspaper pages, dating back to the 1700s, from across the globe. Bookmark this resource using the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio7931419 […]
Where’d that data come from?
Wonder where the New York Times found their Census data for today’s article on the poverty rate? Find it here at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009 Tables & FIgures. […]
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (http://people-press.org) is one of many projects from the Pew Research Center and examines the public’s interest in the news, as well as attitudes of and toward the press. View their reports and publications on News Media Read their latest numbers on the public’s view of […]
New Database: African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a new e-resource, African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998, is now available in our database collection. You can access African-American Newspapers at the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio7464682 This collection continues to update on a monthly basis until its completion in late 2010. […]