Research Guides: Journalism: Home

Overview of this guide

This guide is designed to provide research assistance to students in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Different sections of this guide can help with research in:

Accessing the Associated Press's NYC Daybook, for hard news story ideas, and the online AP Stylebook for grammatical questions
Locating research articles
Finding people and experts
Finding statistics
Running a clip search of other news and newspapers to look at past coverage of a story
Searching Nexis Uni (formerly known as LexisNexis Academic)
Finding public records or court records
Submitting a Freedom of Information request for public records that aren't available online

Activate Your Free New York Times Account

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Current NYU students, faculty, and staff can activate complimentary access to The New York Times digital news content using their NYU email address. After using this link to create an account, NYU users should access NYTimes content by directly logging into the NYTimes site. This complimentary access includes New York Times audio, but excludes NYTimes cooking and puzzles.

Please disconnect from any VPNs and open an incognito or private browser to create a NYTimes account. For additional help and troubleshooting, see our step-by-step sign up instructions.

Activate Your Free Wall Street Journal Account

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Current NYU students, faculty, and staff can activate complimentary access to The Wall Street Journal digital news content using their NYU email address. After using this link to create an account, NYU users can access Wall Street Journal content by directly logging into the WSJ site.
For additional help and troubleshooting, see our step-by-step sign up instructions.

Associated Press Stylebook online

AP Stylebook This link opens in a new window
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, or AP Stylebook, is an essential style and usage guide for American English grammar created by journalists working for the Associated Press. Updated annually, it includes entries on standards for punctuation, abbreviations, photo captions, statistics and professional titles as well as overviews of media law, business reporting, inclusive storytelling, and other relevant topics.
This database is limited to 100 concurrent users.

Online Access to Popular US Newspapers and Magazines

The New York Times (print and online articles)
The Libraries' Factiva subscription to the New York Times contains articles from both the print edition (1980-present) and the online-only content from nytimes.com (2012-present). Images or visualizations accompanying each article are not included.
The New York Times (print-only articles)
These NYT subscriptions contain the articles that were published in each daily edition of the print paper; web-exclusive content from nytimes.com is often not included here (see the "New York Times - online content" link above for web-exclusive articles).
These subscriptions are also html full text only, which means they will not include images, advertisements, or other context included in the "as printed" version. To view current articles and full pages of the NYT as they appeared in print, access the print copies on the 9th floor of Bobst, or the microform copies on Lower Level 2 of Bobst.
The Washington Post
For articles that appear only on washingtonpost.com, click on the link for the "Factiva: Available from 2007" database. To see the "as printed" version of the Washington Post, click on the link for "ProQuest Recent Newspapers: The Washington Post." HTML full text articles are available through the other database links.
The Wall Street Journal
Select the ProQuest Central subscription to access WSJ articles published in the paper. Use Factiva to access WSJ blog articles.
The Financial Times
ProQuest Central and Factiva also provide access to digital-only articles from FT.com. Please be aware that many, if not all, of the databases providing access to FT do not provide access to the most recent month.
Harvard Business Review
For the most recent issues as PDF full text articles ("as printed," including images and layout) click on the link for EBSCOhost Business Source Complete.
The New Yorker
Use "E Journal Full Text" link to see full-page image scans of complete issues. Try EBSCOhost or Gale for improved searchability.
The Atlantic
For downloadable issues as they appeared in print, access the "Flipster" database. For content published only on www.theatlantic.com (that may not have been included in the as-printed edition) access the Factiva database; coverage of www.theatlantic.com articles via Factiva is not comprehensive.
The Economist
The NYU Libraries has access to issues from 1843 to present.

Top Sources for News and Scholarly Research

EBSCO Discovery Service This link opens in a new window
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) encompasses articles in databases across many disciplines. Users can locate peer reviewed articles, videos, audio files, images, and more from a range of subjects.

Full download of DRM-protected ebooks requires EBSCO account registration and Adobe Digital Editions.
Note: NYU Libraries is retiring EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) in June 2025. The Catalog Search replaces EDS as the tool for searching across multiple publishers’ databases and platforms. You can also use EBSCOhost to search across the full set of EBSCO-only databases.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
Please clear your browser's cache and cookies before attempting to access this resource.

Proquest Central
Broad coverage of newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and scholarly journals in all disciplines.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search and access historical newspaper content from titles including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and many more. Most titles are covered from the beginning of publication, with articles available to download as PDFs.

Factiva
Provides full text access to newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and some academic journals. Great resources for international and business research.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher is a collection of regularly updated reports covering political and social issues on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

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