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Hunting the Headlines

• Frank Parry
• https//learn.lboro.ac.uk/lb/newspapers/

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Overview of workshop

• Why newspapers are important
• What formats newspapers are published in
• How to find contents of newspapers
• How to stay up to date
• Hands-on

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Do you read newspapers?

• Online?
• Paper paid, free, in libraries, your mates?
• What are you hoping to learn from todays session?

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Why are newspapers important?

• Keep you up to date
• current events
• local information
• Social commentary
• Broadcast news and Internet new sites are
  different from published hardcopy newspapers
• Layout of content is important

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Finding contents of newspapers at Loughborough

• Browsing paper
• quality dailies
• few overseas weeklies
• Current newspapers
• Nexis - index to newspapers from UK national and
  local newspapers and overseas
• Financial Times ft.com
• Archive newspapers
• Guardian / Observer Archive -The Guardian
  (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
• Daily Mirror Archive 1903 to date
• Times Digital Archive from the beginning, 1785
  to 1985
• New York Times 1851-2006
• Archival 18th and 19th Century newspapers
• Internet - free access to parts of papers

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• Librarys gateway to electronic information
• select newspaper category
• range of indexing and full text resources
  relating to newspapers is listed

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Click on Searchon the menu at the top of the
screen
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Click on Nexis Major database for British
Newspapers
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Nexis

• Some papers available from 1983 onwards
• Has todays papers uploaded on the day of
  publication
• Can search for a subject in all British
  Newspapers at once (except the Financial Times
  which can be found listed under Sources)

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Nexis

• Nexis is a great resource because it enables you
  to cross-search lots of newspapers quickly
• However it is only text you need to see the
  text in the context of the layout and the
  photographs used in the paper
• This is why it is important for you to read a
  newspaper

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Importance of layout

• The combination of different articles is also
  important the next slide shows two articles
  from the Daily Mirror archive
• the one on the left is an apology to the
  American, Steve Bing, for claims in a previous
  article
• the one on the right purports to show that
  Americans cannot understand irony Steve Bing
  sued again and won!

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From the Daily Mirror, 22nd October 2002
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Internet Newspapers

• ... the way ahead?
• what kind of news?

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New developments trying to attract new readers
with smaller papers ...

• The Metro a free, quick read for busy
  travellershttp//www.metro.co.uk/home/
• The i the cut-down Indyhttp//www.guardian.co.u
  k/media/gallery/2010/oct/26/the-independent-i-news
  paper/?picture368056284index0

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• The Times and Sunday Times are now behind a
  paywall (soon to be followed by the Sun and the
  News of the World).

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Keeping up to date

• RSS feeds
• Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
• need an RSS reader, e.g.
• Google Reader www.google.com/reader/
• Google Alerts

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RSS
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British Newspaper Library

• premier collection of newspapers in printed and
  electronic form
• Information http//www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprest
  ype/news/index.html
• Catalogue http//catalogue.bl.uk/ - look for the
  link to the Newspaper Catalogue subset

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Supporting material is on Learn at

• http//learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id3978