How to Find Newspaper Articles: Introduction

When searching for newspaper articles, there are a few questions you should ask yourself to determine which resource(s) would be useful for finding the articles you want:

1. What time period do you need?
   • recent news (generally after the 1990s)
   • historical news (generally before the 1990s)
2. What geographic area are you interested in?
   (Note: these areas are embedded in the recent and historical news tabs above)
   • Local (Williams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts)
   • U.S. State and Regional
   • U.S. National
   • International
3. Are you looking for articles from a specific newspaper?
4. Do you want particular types of articles?
   • front page
   • editorials, op-eds,  letters to the editor
   • reviews
   • obituaries
   • advertisements and classified ads

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