Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Research/New York

Research

The purpose of this page, along with the companion New York newspapers WikiProject page, is to support creating and improving Wikipedia articles about New York 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 New York 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 surely many other excellent source materials for information about New York newspapers.

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.

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.

State Resources

• History of Warren County: The County Press, 1885.
• List of newspapers in New York (state)

History:

• A Glance at New York: Embracing the City Government, Theatres, Hotels, Churches, Mobs, Monopolies, Learned Professions, Newspapers, Rogues, Dandies, Fires and Firemen, Water and Other Liquids, etc. (1837)
• Chronology of adirondacks
• Hubbard's
• NY Press Association
• Arcadia Publishing by State
• Men of NY
• Fulton History
• NYS Historic Newspapers
• Niagara County newspapers of public record

Awards:

• New York State Associated Press Association
• Better Newspaper Contest Awards

Online databases

• New York State Library online database
  • An online database from the New York State Library that allows for searching of newspapers throughout the state of New York.
• New York State Historic Newspapers
  • An online database from the New York State Historic Newspapers that offers an interactive map to search each county for newspapers.
• Chronicling America New York database
  • An online database that allows for searching of both past and present New York newspapers from 1690 all the way to present time.

Historical materials

• New York History Research Guide
  • A research guide detailing how to find newspapers and the importance of news papers in New York.
• Checklist of Newspapers and Official Gazettes in the New York Public Library (1915)
  • Full book available without account