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Hunting the Headlines

Hunting the Headlines. Frank Parry https ://learn.lboro.ac.uk/lb/newspapers/. 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. Do you read newspapers?. Online?

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Hunting the Headlines

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

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

  4. 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. 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

  6. 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

  8. Click on Nexis – Major database for British Newspapers

  9. 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”)

  10. 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

  11. 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!

  12. From the Daily Mirror, 22nd October 2002

  13. Internet Newspapers • ... the way ahead? • … what kind of news?

  14. 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.uk/media/gallery/2010/oct/26/the-independent-i-newspaper#/?picture=368056284&index=0

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

  16. 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

  17. RSS

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

  19. Supporting material is on Learn at: • http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3978

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