Finding Popular Secondary Sources - FYW 100 - Introduction to Academic Writing / Polansky, Ellen - James P. Adams Library at James P. Adams Library

Media Bias Chart

Interactive Media Bias Chart
Ad Fontes Interactive Media Bias Chart generates news source scores based on scores of individual articles (in the case of online news sources) or episodes (in the cases of podcasts, radio, TV, and video-based sources) by a team of analysts that includes academics, journalists, librarians, lawyers, military veterans, civil service professionals, and other professions.

Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text.

New York Times (Current Newspaper)
Instruction for first-time registration: Go to nytimes.com; Click "Log In": then click the "Continue with school or work single sign-on" link at the bottom of page; Enter your RIC email on the next page, and go through the login process. For questions, contact kayton@ric.edu
Providence Journal: Current (Newsbank)
Full-text of locally-written articles starting with 1980 can be searched, emailed, or downloaded from the Providence Journal on Newsbank. For today's news, use the print issue or ProJo.com
Wall Street Journal
To register: Use the link supplied above and click "Log In." Follow the steps to register with your RIC email address.

When doing regular Google Searching, look for:

Newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc).
News Magazines (Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Smithsonian).
News Websites you are familiar with (CNN, NBC, etc).
Educational websites (pbs.org, etc)

Also look for websites that are from: