How To: Find Sources

A news wire service--also known as a news agency or wire service--is an organization that generates news reports and sells them to other reporting agencies, such as newspapers, magazines, television broadcast programs, and digital news reporting sites. The majority of news reports come from stories originally reported by the wire services, making them an excellent source to consult. However, as with any resource, be sure to evaluate any information and reporting for bias.

There are over a dozen different wire services, based around the world, but the librarians at WNC recommend starting with the following:

• Reuters
  Reuters is one of the largest and most well-known news agencies in the world and is based in the United Kingdom.
• Agence France-Presse
  AFP is the oldest news reporting and distribution agency in the world. It is based in Paris, France and is a state run agency.
• Associated Press
  The Associated Press (AP), founded in 1846, is a non-profit news agency, headquartered in New York. 
  For AP's news site, please click on this link.

Directory of Newspapers by State

• USNPL Newspaper Directory
  A comprehensive list of newspapers by state

Historic Newspapers

• Chronicling America:  Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress; from 1836 - 1922)  
  This collection doesn't include Nevada or a number of other states.

Directories

• Conservative News Outlets
• Editorial Pages Links
• Liberal News Outlets
• Newslink  (U.S. radio and television stations)

Media Watch Groups

• FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

National News Outlets

• ABC News
• CBS News
• C-SPAN
• Fox News
• MSN Live Search News
• MSNBC
• New York Times
• Newsweek
• NPR Online: National Public Radio
• PBS Online Newshour
• ScienceDaily
• Time
• U.S.A. Today
• Washington Post
• Yahoo! News

Recommended

• Al Jazeera America 
  The English language site for the Arabic-language TV channel.  
• World News Network

  Stories from hundreds of news sources from around the world.

Additional

• CBC News 
  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation international news online.
• Common Dreams.org 
  "News for the Progressive community" with links to newspapers, news services, columnists, radio and televisions programs. 
• Google News 
  News stories from over 4,500 sources. 
• Newseum
  Daily newspaper front pages from newspapers around the world.
• World Newspapers.com
  World Newspapers, Magazines and News Sites In English
• Worldpress.org 
  Articles reprinted from the world's newspapers and magazines as well as articles written by their staff. 

General Sources

• Nevada News Sources  (ABYZ News Links)
  Covers all types of media news sources:  newspapers, television and radio stations.

Select Television Stations

• KTNV - ABC - Channel 13 - Las Vegas
• KLAS - CBS - Channel 8 - Las Vegas
• KVVU - FOX - Channel 5 - Las Vegas
• KSNV - NBC - Channel 3 - Las Vegas
• KLVX - PBS - Channel 10 - Las Vegas
• KOLO - ABC - Channel 8 - Reno
• KTVN - CBS - Channel 2 - Reno
• KRXI - FOX - Channel 11 - Reno
• KRNV - NBC - Channel 4 - Reno
• KNPB - PBS - Channel 5 - Reno

Radio Stations

• Nevada Radio Station Finder
• Radio Stations in Reno

Newspapers

Historical Newspapers

Newspaper Archive covers historical newspapers from Nevada, as well as other states, dating back to the 1800s. (Available at the Nevada State Library & Archives and the UNR Knowledge Center Library)

• Nevada State Library & Archives Current & Historical NV Newspapers 
• Nevada State Library & Archives Historical Newspaper Holdings (a listing of all of the NSLA newspaper records available to be viewed, in person, at the State Library)
• Nevada Library Cooperative Digital Collections (selected digitized historical Nevada newspapers - online access)

Carson City

• Carson Now
• Nevada Appeal  (WNC has print)

Elko:  Elko Daily Free Press

Ely:  Ely Daily Times

Fallon:  Lahontan Valley News

Gardnerville:  Record-Courier

Incline Village:  Sierra Sun

Lake Tahoe:  Tahoe Daily Tribune

Las Vegas

• Las Vegas Business Press
• Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Las Vegas Sun
• Las Vegas Tribune
• Las Vegas Weekly
• Nevada Independent

Laughlin:  Laughlin Nevada Times

Reno

• Reno Gazette Journal (Washoe Library has online access)
• Reno News and Review

Pahrump:  Pahrump Valley Times

Sparks:  Sparks Tribune

Winnemucca: Inside Northern Nevada

Yerington:  Mason Valley News

An alternative press, often called an independent press, "is a small entity which is not controlled by corporations that dominate the publishing industry... Alternative press publications often address important social issues and publish innovative and experimental works largely ignored or covered superficially in the mainstream press." (ODLIS, the Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science) 

Directories

• Alternative Press Center
  The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. It creates the Alternative Press Index
• Conservative News Outlets from the Center for Media and Democracy
• Liberal News Outlets from the Center for Media and Democracy
• List of Alternative Media from the U.S. Political Left
• List of Alternative Media from the U.S. Political Right
• Best of the Web-Alternative News

Adapted from: Yale University Library Alternative News Sources  by Todd Gilman, PhD, MLS