articles from periodicals are an essential information source for research of all kinds : a periodical is a publication that is issued on a regular basis (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, annually, etc.)
 

databases
 

these databases contain full-text and abstracts of articles from thousands of journals, magazines and newspapers; eLibrary also has transcripts from radio and television shows
 

ProQuest  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=306&TS=1054581030

eLibrary  http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/elib/do/search

KCLS has many more databases, you need your King County library card number to access them  http://www.kcls.org/ click the "Databases" link

media "watchdogs"

these organizations monitor how well or how poorly the mass media covers the news

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)  http://www.fair.org/index.php

independent media center  http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

indymedia.us  http://indymedia.us/en/index.shtml

Columbia Journalism Review  http://www.cjr.org/

newspapers

these links connect to a few online editions of newspapers in the U.S.

the "international newspaper collection" link connects to a list of international online newspapers maintained by the Chico school district in California

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Boston Globe  http://www.boston.com/news/globe/

Chicago Tribune  http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Christian Science Monitor  http://www.csmonitor.com/

Denver Post  http://www.denverpost.com

Indian County Today http://www.indiancountry.com/aboutus.cfm 

international newspaper collection http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/worldnews.html

Los Angeles Times  http://www.latimes.com/

New York Times  http://www.nytimes.com/

Oregonian  http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/

Philadelphia Inquirer  http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/

San Francisco Chronicle  http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/

Seattle Post-Intelligencer  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/

Snoqualmie Valley Record  http://www.zwire.com/site/News.cfm?brd=965

USA Today  http://www.usatoday.com/

Washington Post  http://www.washingtonpost.com/
 

online news

these links are to news sources that only are available online

World News  http://www.wn.com/

IndianZ.com  http://www.indianz.com/about.asp
 

radio & tv

these links connect local, national and international radio and television websites

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british broadcasting corp.  http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/advquery/advquery.htm

cable network news http://www.cnn.com/

canadian broadcasting corporation  http://www.cbc.ca/

democracy now  http://www.democracynow.org/

KBCS 91.3 FM a world of music & ideas from Bellevue Community College http://kbcs.fm/default.asp

public broadcasting service http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html