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Newspapers and News Sources

This guide describes how to read the news from the RVC Library's website, lists RVC's news databases and provides information on searching in America's News and Nexis Uni.

About America's News

Use America's News to find diverse U.S. perspectives on topics related to controversial issues, the environment, health, education, science, the arts, literature, business, economics, criminal justice, and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos and web-only content.

America's News can also help users:

  • Find news coverage, including printed articles, videos and transcripts
  • Understand current and quickly evolving events and issues
  • Track how issues and events change over time
  • Compare the viewpoints of different publications and geographic locations on an issue

Using NewsBank America's News

NewsBank America's News Hot Topics

Hot Topics—Current research topics covering key global issues, and people about business, economics, crime, politics, science, health, sports, the arts and more. A great resource for reading about current events and finding relevant topics for research papers.