Know How Hunting the Headlines Frank Parry

Know How 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

Know How Do you read newspapers?  Online?  Paper – paid, free, in libraries, your mate’s?  What are you hoping to learn from today’s session?

Know How 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

Know How 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 ( ) and The Observer ( )  Daily Mirror Archive – 1903 to date  Times Digital Archive – from the beginning, 1785 to 1985  New York Times –  Archival 18 th and 19 th Century newspapers  Internet - free access to parts of papers

Know How  Library’s gateway to electronic information  select newspaper category  range of indexing and full text resources relating to newspapers is listed

Click on ‘Search’on the menu at the top of the screen

Click on Nexis – Major database for British Newspapers

Know How Nexis  Some papers available from 1983 onwards  Has today’s 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”)

Know How 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

Know How 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!

Know How Internet Newspapers ... the way ahead?  … what kind of news?

The Metro – a free, quick read for busy travellers The i – the cut-down Indy 10/oct/26/the-independent-i- newspaper#/?picture= &index=0 10/oct/26/the-independent-i- newspaper#/?picture= &index=0 New developments – trying to attract new readers with smaller papers...

Know How We cannot show anything in this slide The Times and Sunday Times are now behind a paywall (soon to be followed by the Sun and the News of the World).

Know How Keeping up to date  RSS feeds  Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary  need an RSS reader, e.g.  Google Reader:  Google Alerts

Know How RSS

Know How British Newspaper Library  premier collection of newspapers in printed and electronic form Information: html html Catalogue: - look for the link to the Newspaper Catalogue subsethttp://catalogue.bl.uk/

Know How Supporting material is on Learn at: 