1. Know How Hunting the Headlines Frank Parry https://learn.lboro.ac.uk/lb/newspapers/

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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 (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 18 th and 19 th Century newspapers  Internet - free access to parts of papers

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

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

9. Click on Nexis – Major database for British Newspapers

10. 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”)

14. 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

15. 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!

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

21. The Metro – a free, quick read for busy travellers http://www.metro.co.uk/home/ http://www.metro.co.uk/home/ The i – the cut-down Indy http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/20 10/oct/26/the-independent-i- newspaper#/?picture=368056284&index=0 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/20 10/oct/26/the-independent-i- newspaper#/?picture=368056284&index=0 New developments – trying to attract new readers with smaller papers...

22. 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).

23. Know How 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/www.google.com/reader/  Google Alerts

24. Know How RSS

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

26. Know How Supporting material is on Learn at:  http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3 978 http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3 978