Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Research

The purpose of this page is to support creating and improving Wikipedia articles about U.S. newspapers. Here, we collect bibliographic information (for footnotes) and notes about source materials that can support composing these articles. These source materials generally include books, academic journal articles, and news articles about U.S. journalism and newspapers.

Any newspaper with an entry in at least one of these resources is likely to be notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article.

Please feel free to edit this page to make it more useful! It's just a start, there are many other excellent source materials for information about U.S. newspapers.

See also the project page for U.S. states, where you will find lists of newspapers that need a Wikipedia article, or whose article needs improvement; and the state-based sub-pages listed below.

General search techniques
Try searching newspaper databases for the names of newspapers or for journalism-related topics. While some newspaper archives are on the open Internet, the most useful articles are often in paywalled or specialized databases. Several options are:
 * The Internet Archive
 * The Internet Archive stores digitized copies of many books and newspapers, available for free or to borrow with a free account. But to find these contents, you need to use the Internet Archive's own search function; external search engines like Google or Bing will not reveal most of its contents.
 * Note, especially, the Editor And Publisher archives hosted by the Internet Archive.


 * newspapers.com: a paid subscription. Subscriptions are available free for veteran Wikipedians through the WP:Wikipedia Library program.
 * Your university library or local public library: You probably have the ability to log into databases of newspaper archives through your library.
 * The "Chronicling America" program of the U.S. Library of Congress: This program partners with libraries and universities in each state to digitize historical newspapers. Search its collection here. (A list of all the state partners.)


 * List of newspapers digitized by Google News

Online databases
These sites do little to establish notability and may not meet the threshold of a reliable source, but they may be useful in conjunction with other reference materials.
 * OfficialUSA page on US newspapers
 * ABYZ page on US newspapers
 * mondotimes.com
 * Ca State Government Newspaper Datatbase
 * Interactive maps of California newspapers headquarters
 * The University of Kentucky's Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues has coverage from 2006-2012 of various rural newspapers:

State-specific pages

 * /Alabama/
 * /Alaska/
 * /Arizona/
 * /Arkansas/
 * /California/
 * /Colorado/
 * /Connecticut/
 * /Delaware/
 * /Florida/
 * /Georgia/
 * /Hawaii/
 * /Idaho/
 * /Illinois/
 * /Indiana/
 * /Iowa/
 * /Kansas/
 * /Kentucky/
 * /Louisiana/
 * /Maine/
 * /Maryland/
 * /Massachusetts/
 * /Michigan/
 * /Minnesota/
 * /Mississippi/
 * /Missouri/
 * /Montana/
 * /Nebraska/
 * /Nevada/
 * /New Hampshire/
 * /New Jersey/
 * /New Mexico/
 * /New York/
 * /North Carolina/
 * /North Dakota/
 * /Ohio/
 * /Oklahoma/
 * /Oregon/
 * /Pennsylvania/
 * /Rhode Island/
 * /South Carolina/
 * /South Dakota/
 * /Tennessee/
 * /Texas/
 * /Utah/
 * /Vermont/
 * /Virginia/
 * /Washington/
 * /Washington, D.C./
 * /West Virginia/
 * /Wisconsin/
 * /Wyoming/