Newspaper Research Databases
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Access full text of content from thousands of newspapers, popular magazines, trade journals, wire services, radio and TV sources, company and industry reports, case law, patents, regulations, and much more.
A valuable strategy for researching almost any Bull in the Ring topic is to find newspaper articles; most issues will have newspaper articles about the topic, as well as articles which exemplify the ethical issue (e.g. you can find articles explaining a paper's policy on journalists' accepting gifts, as well as stories in which a journalist's gift-taking is exposed). LexisNexis provides access to tens of thousands of news sources, all in full text. Get the most out of this resource by using the Advanced Options menu highlighted below, and the following tips and tricks:
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Use the exclamation mark ! as the wildcard character to find variations of root words - e.g. ethic! finds ethics, ethical
- a search for synonyms, inside parentheses and connected with or for example: (juvenile! or minor!) to broaden the search. Use the 'Any of these terms' box to add synonyms to your search automatically.
- If you're finding too many hits, try using proximity connectors (w/5 finds articles where the words are within 5 words of each other, w/p for articles where the words are within the same paragraph)
Examples:
(student newspaper or college newspaper) w/p (censor! or first amendment or prior restraint)
- this employs synonyms for student newspapers, and looks for occurrence of those terms within the same paragraph as terms for censorship.
(photojournalis! or photograph!) w/5 (manipulat! or alter!)
- same strategy; connects synonyms with or , looks for them within 5 words of each other
