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Hunting the Headlines

Frank Parry

https://learn.lboro.ac.uk/lb/newspapers/

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Overview of workshop

Why newspapers are important What formats newspapers are published in How to find contents of newspapers How to stay up to date Hands-on

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Do you read newspapers?

Online?

Paper – paid, free, in libraries, your mate’s? What are you hoping to learn from today’s

session?

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Why are newspapers important?

Keep you up to date current events local information

Social commentary

Broadcast news and Internet new sites are different from published hardcopy newspapers

Layout of content is important

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Finding contents of newspapers at Loughborough

Browsing paper quality dailies few overseas weeklies

Current newspapers Nexis - index to newspapers from UK national and local newspapers and

overseas Financial Times – ft.com

Archive newspapers Guardian / Observer Archive -The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer

(1791-2003) Daily Mirror Archive – 1903 to date Times Digital Archive – from the beginning, 1785 to 1985 New York Times – 1851-2006 Archival 18th and 19th Century newspapers

Internet - free access to parts of papers

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Library’s gateway to electronic information select newspaper category range of indexing and full text resources

relating to newspapers is listed

Click on ‘Search’on the menu at the top of the screen

Click on Nexis – Major database for British Newspapers

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Nexis

Some papers available from 1983 onwards Has today’s papers uploaded on the day of

publication Can search for a subject in all British

Newspapers at once (except the Financial Times which can be found listed under “Sources”)

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Nexis

Nexis is a great resource because it enables you to cross-search lots of newspapers quickly

However it is only text – you need to see the text in the context of the layout and the photographs used in the paper

This is why it is important for you to read a newspaper

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Importance of layout

The combination of different articles is also important – the next slide shows two articles from the Daily Mirror archive the one on the left is an apology to the

American, Steve Bing, for claims in a previous article

the one on the right purports to show that Americans cannot understand irony – Steve Bing sued again and won!

From the Daily Mirror, 22nd October 2002

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Internet NewspapersInternet Newspapers

... the way ahead? … what kind of news?

• The Metro – a free, quick read for busy travellershttp://www.metro.co.uk/home/

• The i – the cut-down Indyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2010/oct/26/the-independent-i-newspaper#/?picture=368056284&index=0

New developments – trying to attract new readers with smaller papers ...

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We cannot show anything in this slide

The Times and Sunday Times are now behind a paywall (soon to be followed by the Sun and the

News of the World).

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Keeping up to date

RSS feeds Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site

Summary

need an RSS reader, e.g. Google Reader: www.google.com/reader/

Google Alerts

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RSS

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British Newspaper LibraryBritish Newspaper Library

premier collection of newspapers in printed and electronic form

Information: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/index.html

Catalogue: http://catalogue.bl.uk/ - look for the link to the Newspaper Catalogue subset

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Supporting material is on Learn at:

http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3978