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Portland area

Oregon Live
http://www.oregonlive.com/
News about Oregon produced by The Oregonian and Advance Internet Inc. Headlines provide links to complete stories, and a side bar has links to special stories, sports, business, entertainment, classifieds, and more. There is a 14 to 30 day archive at the bottom of some pages.
Business Journal Portland
http://www.amcity.com/portland/
An interactive site giving business news for greater Portland. Pull down menus allow you to look at articles by industry with free registration, or to choose Business Journals from other cities.
The Asian Reporter
http://asianreporter.com/
News, both NW/Local and International, a NW Resource Guide, and Asia Links make up this online version of a paper published in Portland.
El Hispanic News
http://www.elhispanicnews.com/
This is the oldest Hispanic publication in the Pacific Northwest and a leading source of information for the hispanic community. It, and it's sister publication Mas is available as a pdf file, and is in Spanish and English.
Jewish Review
http://www.jewishreview.org/
Current and recent local articles, as well as Breaking World and International News and an Events Calendar.
The Portland Alliance
http://www.theportlandalliance.org
Portland Oregon's oldest alternative progressive newspaper, "providing a voice . . . for environmentalists, trade unionists, social justice activists, and others who are usually shut out by the mainstream press."
Portland independent media center
http://portland.indymedia.org/
One of "over 60 regional IMCs offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of issues and events by individual media activists and alternative media organizations" "Anyone can post text, photos, audio and video to the Newswire of an IMCWeb sitewith an easy-to-use online form; content is published (nearly) instantly without going through an editorial process."
The Portland Mercury
http://www.portlandmercury.com/current/
Portland's new cutting-edge alternative newspaper.
The Portland Observer
http://www.portlandobserver.com/
News about Portland and Oregon from the African American point of view.
The Portland Tribune
http://www.portlandtribune.com/
The Portland Tribune has comprehensive coverage of local news, sports, business, people and entertainment twice weekly. This site shows current stories from the paper, and has a searchable (case sensitive) archive to past issues from March 2001.
The Skanner
http://www.theskanner.com/news/catlist.asp?cat=4
A weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. "Established in 1975, The Skanner News Group has advanced the cause of the Black Press in the North Western United States."
The Southeast Examiner
www.southeastexaminer.com
The Southeast Examiner is published monthly in SE Portland, OR. The coverage area is from SE 1st to SE 82nd and SE Powell Blvd. to E. Burnside St.
Street Roots
http://www.streetroots.org/
A monthly newspaper for and by the homeless of Portland. Includes Rose City Resources, a list of food, clothing, employment, meals, etc.
The Vancouver Columbian
http://www.columbian.com/
Headlines with brief descriptions and links to complete stories about Vancouver, Washington and Clark County.
Willamette Week
http://www.wweek.com/
Portland news, culture, classifieds and personals. Search links allow you to search the previous several years with links to the full text, or search the entire archive from 1974 for citations.

Oregon

Oregon Index
http://library.state.or.us/home/orind/
A selective index to Oregon newspapers and to Oregon items in selected other publications. Maintained by the Oregon State Library.
Oregon Newspapers Index
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/indexing/
Compiled by the University of Oregon, this site indexes the Portland Oregonian as well as The Oregon Daily Emerald, a University of Oregon campus newspaper, and The Eugene Register-Guard. The Oregonian is searchable by exact phrase, keyword, and combinations of keywords. Citations are given, along with some alternative subject headings. Many Oregon libraries have microfilm of the Oregonian for the public to use.
Oregon Regional List of Serials (ORULS)
http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/oruls/search.php
Search ORULS, the index to periodical & other serial holdings of 160 Oregon and Washington libraries. Contains approximately 250,000 holdings of 100,000 titles.
Albany Democrat-Herald
http://www.democratherald.com/
News, sports, classified, community and lifestyles for Albany and vicinity. Includes a pull-down menu of several other Oregon newspapers.
Ashland Daily Tidings
http://www.dailytidings.com/
Contains news, classifieds, community, lifestyles, travel & leisure and obituaries for the Ashland, Oregon area. Headlines with brief synopses link to the full stories with pictures. "Visit our back issue library" link allows browsing by date from August 19, 1999.
Daily Astorian
http://www.dailyastorian.com/
"Today's Headlines" link to stories, and a top bar has links to news, opinion, entertainment and sports for the preceding month. Local weather and searchable classifieds are also available.
Bandon Western World
http://www.bandonwesternworld.com/
News stories and Archives require a paid subscription, but Classifieds are free.
Bend Bulletin
http://www.bendbulletin.com/
Provides brief summaries of top stories. A side bar has buttons to link to the Classifieds, and to directory information for local businesses under several headings.
Canby Herald
http://www.http://www.canbyherald.com/
Has news headlines which link to complete stories. Sports, opinion, letters, vitals (births and obituaries), and classifieds are all linked by graphics of rolled-up newspapers in a side bar.
Cascade Business News
http://www.cascadebusnews.com/
"Serving the Central Oregon business community," this site lists headlines from the recent issue via buttons labeled "Continue" to complete stories.
Coos Bay World
http://www.theworldlink.com/
The World is the newspaper serving Coos Bay and the southern Oregon coast.
Corvallis Gazette-Times
http://www.gazettetimes.com/
Contains news, classifieds, community, lifestyles, travel & leisure and obituaries for the Ashland, Oregon area. Headlines with brief synopses link to the full stories with pictures. "visit our Backfile Library" link allows browsing by date from July 15, 1999.
Curry Coastal Pilot
http://www.currypilot.com/
A twice-weekly community newspaper serving Curry county on the Southern Oregon Coast from Brookings, Oregon.
Dallas Itemizer-Observer
http://www.itemizerobserver.com/
Headlines with links to complete stories, letters, editorials, Passages (births and deaths), and more for Dallas and Polk County, Oregon.
Eugene Register Guard
http://www.registerguard.com/
Headlines and excerpts with links to full stories. Has links to the previous weeks' stories
Gresham Outlook
http://www.theoutlookonline.com/
Contains local and regional news, classifieds, community, lifestyles, travel & leisure and obituaries for the Gresham, Oregon area. Headlines with brief synopses link to the full stories with pictures.
Hermiston Herald
http://www.hermistonherald.com/
Published each Tuesday in Hermiston, and in its second year on the WWW, the Herald is the largest weekly newspaper in Eastern Oregon.
Klamath Falls Herald and News
http://www.heraldandnews.com/
Headlines and excerpts with links to full stories for the current day. There are Obituaries, Classifieds and more, with Archives from 2000.
Lincoln City News Guard
http://www.thenewsguard.com/
Includes News, Opinion, Sports, Classified, Fun, Area Photos and Links.
Medford Mail Tribune
http://www.mailtribune.com/
Includes Local News, Business, Sports, Obituaries, Opinion / Politics, Archives, Classifieds, and more.
Newport News-Times
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/index.html
Contains news, classifieds, community, lifestyles, travel & leisure and obituaries for the Newport, Oregon area. Headlines with brief synopses link to the full stories with pictures. "visit our Backfile Library" link allows browsing by date from July 15, 1999.
Ontario Argus Observer
http://www.argusobserver.com
Local news, Sports, Lifestyle, Obituaries and more for western Treasure Valley. A Search button allows searching archives from October 1997 on.
Roseburg News-Review OnLine
http://www.oregonnews.com/
A very frames-heavy site, covering news for Roseburg, with Sports, Searchable Classifieds, Public Notices and more.
Salem Statesman Journal
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/homepage.cfm
In addition to today's news, this includes classifieds, community news, business directories, and searchable public notices.
Sisters Nugget
http://www.nuggetnews.com/
Including news, classifieds, and weather for Sisters and Deschutes County, Oregon. Has archives back to September 1995
Tillamook Headlight-Herald
http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/
"Serving the people of Tillamook County since 1888," and including News, Opinion, Sports, Community, and Classifieds Ads.
Umpqua Post
http://www.theumpquapost.com/
One or two local stories and one or two sports stories, and the Classifieds are free. Otherwise, it is necessary to subscribe to the "Paid E Edition."
Wilsonville Spokesman
http://www.wilsonvillenews.com/
Features a sampling of key stories and articles about people, sports and viewpoints in the community. Links to an interactive classified page for several Eagle newspapers in the Pacific Northwest.
Woodburn Independent
http://www.woodburnindependent.com/
News, editorials, and sports, with community links and "North Willamette News Classifieds".

National

Small Town Newspapers
https://www.smalltownnewspaper.com/smalltownpapers/jsp/stphome.jsp
Browse through newpapers from small towns in the United States, shown exactly as printed.
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/
The electronic edition with article summaries, links to full stories, and searchable archives.
In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/
A national magazine of news and opinion with coverage of the labor movement, environment, feminism, grassroots politics, minority communities and the media.
Indian Country Today
http://indiancountry.com/
Billing itself as "The nations' leading American Indian News Service" Indian Country Today claims to be "the only truly national Native publisher dedicated to American Indian issues, concerns, cultures, and customs."
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
It is necessary to register to read beyond the headlines.
Opinion Journal
http://www.opinionjournal.com/
The Wall Street Journal editorial page on the Web.
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
News, sport, money, life and weather for the U.S.
U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/
The news release wire service for news from U.S. government and other public policy news sources, providing distribution of news to print, broadcast and online media worldwide since 1986.
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
One of the nation's leading newspapers with many full text articles, continually updated news, and links to other resources.

Mega sites

Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake)
http://www.jake-db.org/
A source for finding out which online databases index a given newspaper, journal or magazine, for what dates, and whether the indexing source includes full-text. Has not been updated since 2003.

Geographic

ABYZ News Links
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
"A portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, Internet services, magazines, and press agencies. Please note that ABYZ News Links does not contain actual news content but only links to other news sources."
Kidon Media Link
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/usa.shtml
The text of U.S. and international newspapers, including classifieds, arranged by area, country and state.
Newslink
http://newslink.org/news.html
Newslink has more than 3,400 U.S. newspapers and 2,000 non-U.S. papers cross- indexed by category, as well as U.S. and Canadian magazines, and U.S. television and radio stations.

Search by subject

1stHeadlines-News
http://1stheadlines.com/
Browse U.S. and world news from English language sources under US and World, Business, Health, Lifestyles, Sports, Technology or Weather, or choose the headline that piques your interest.
HeadlineSpot
http://headlinespot.com/
Links to sources for 56 U.S. metropolitan areas, 50 states, 59 countries, 27 industries and subjects from arts and automobiles to technology and travel. Follow breaking headlines, dive into more than 50 op-ed pages, get the word from nearly 100 columnists, read what the critics are staying, or kick back with satire, offbeat news and more.
Opinion Pages
http://www.opinion-pages.org
"Editorial, Opinion and Comment pages from online English newspapers around the world, plus opinions from other thought-provoking Web sites. This specialized database is indexed twice a day." Click on the ? box to search editorials by keyword.

Viewpoints

AAN Interactive
http://aan.org/
This Web site, provided by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has pull-down menus that allow you to link directly to a newsweekly's Web page, or to information about the paper in a directory, as well as links to current stories.
allAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/
"AllAfrica Global Media is the leading provider of African news and information worldwide, through news feeds to institutional and agency clients and through allAfrica.com. We post more than 700 new stories daily from over 100 African media organizations and from our own award-winning reporters. Go to Top News for a complete listing of stories, as ranked for news value by our editorial team. Choose Latest News to see unranked stories as they roll in and are posted."
BlackPressUSA.com
http://www.blackpressusa.com/
"The joint web presence of America's Black community newspapers and the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service," billed as "Your independent source of news for the African American community."
CNSNews.com
http://www.cnsnews.com/Welcome.asp
Conservative news and views, compiled by the Cybercast News Service.
Common Dreams News Center
http://www.commondreams.org/
An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives, updated constantly -- 365-days a year.
Cursor
http://www.cursor.org/
A progressive news magazine focusing on world news and alternative media perspectives. Links to opinion pieces by columnists and writers, and to periodicals and other media resources.
LocalBusiness.com
http://localbusiness.com
Business news from cities across the United States. In addition to a site-map and list of cities, there are Top News Headlines, News by Industry, and a search box.
Moreover.com
http://w.moreover.com/
"Provides companies with real-time news, information, and even rumors from every online source that impacts their business. Moreover offers conditional free access to a limited database set that includes hundreds of popular and consumer-oriented sources."
NewsMax.com
http://www.newsmax.com/
America's News Page offers links to top stories from conservative broadcast media and newspaper Web sites.
Politics Line
http://www.politics-line.com
A diverse and comprehensive collection of opinions and commentary from America's leading columnists. In one spot you can access the opinions of the country's greatest commentators on every topic in today's news. The site is updated daily with more columnists are being added every day.
Queer Day
http://www.queerday.com/
For the gay, lesbian, bi and transgender community, this site describes itself as "an online magazine experience that brings you the best in news, culture and gossip from all over the world wide web."
Tidepool
http://www.tidepool.org/home.html
An on-line news filter for the Pacific Northwest that contains the top stories on the environment, community development and the economy. Tidepool's editor updates the website every weekday morning with more than 30 on-line news sources from Alaska to Northern California. Tidepool.org also features original news and commentary on a weekly basis and archives and resources to help you learn more about things like salmon and growth management. You can e-mail your elected officials, find your watershed, or sign up to have Tidepool's links delivered by e-mail each morning.

Broadcast Media

Local Media

Fox 12 Oregon
http://www.kptv.com/
Local news and weather, with links to national and world news and a New Story Archive covering the previous two months.
KATU
http://www.katu.com/weather
Headlines and complete stories from local and national news, weather, TV listings, outdoors, consumer news, and sports. A video button allows a choice of several recent newscasts using RealPlayer.
KBOO
http://www.kboo.org
A community radio station providing music, news and public affairs to Portland, Corvallis, Vancouver, Salem, Mount Hood and the surrounding areas. The site gives descriptions of upcoming programs and community events.
KEX
http://www.1190kex.com/
News, sports, weather and KEX sponsored Events.
KGW
http://www.kgw.com/
It is now necessary to register to read beyond the headlines for news, sports and weather.
KOIN
http://www.koin.com/
A searchable website with headlines and "hotlines" linking to full text of stories. A side bar links to more news as well as weather, sports, business, etc.
KPAM
http://www.kpam.com/
Headlines and first paragraphs with clickable READ links to the remainder of the story.
KXL
http://www.kxl.com/
News and talk format, with business, sports, traffic and weather.
NorthWest Cable News
http://www.nwcn.com/
Oregon, Washington and Idaho news and weather "24 hours a day."
Oregon Public Broadcasting
http://www.opb.org/
Includes links to Personal Public Radio (TM), Oregon Field Guide, the Newsroom, and OPB and Me for kids.
Portland Radio Guide
http://www.pdxradio.com
Lists Portland Radio stations by program style, such as news, talk, sports, kids, or style of music. Also includes listings of Spanish stations and regional and national links.

World Media

ABC News
http://abcnews.com/
News summaries and headlines with links to full stories. Hourly audio news updates from ABC News Radio and video links require that RealPlayer be downloaded.
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
"Free from the shackles of censorship and government control Aljazeera has offered its audiences in the Arab world much needed freedom of thought, independence, and room for debate. In the rest of the world, often dominated by the stereotypical thinking of news "heavyweights", Aljazeera offers a different and a new perspective. We continue to cover all viewpoints with objectivity integrity and balance."
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
BBC News Front Page includes text of major stories with links to audio and video using RealPlayer.
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Today's headlines from the Canadian point of view, with links to Business, Sports, Weather and Consumers' pages.
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/
Latest news for the U.S. and the World, with individual links to The Early Show, CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, and 60 Minutes.
CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/index.html
Choose U.S. and international news from a variety of categories. Audio and video use RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
Fox News Online
http://www.foxnews.com/
News from the Fox network. File folder or video camera icons indicate whether stories are available with additional information or on video.
MSNBC News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
Visual links to the top stories of the day and a sidebar with links to News, Business, Sports, Entertainment, etc., as well as Newsweek and several NBC news programs.
NPR Online
http://www.npr.org/
News Now links to headlines and stories, On the Air describes upcoming programs and specials. Audio files require the downloadable RealAudio player.
PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/
Links on the top of the page allow you to Search the site, look for backgorund material on programs in an alphabetical list, check your local PBS station's listings, and even shop.
Public Radio Fan
http://www.publicradiofan.com/
"Features program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world." there are audio links, for which you may need to download software. There is a program finder, or you can select a station from a list, or search by location, format, or language.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
http://www.rferl.org/
"A daily report on developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia prepared by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty." There are also live broadcasts (RealPlayer), regional reports, and special reports.
The Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/
National weather news, searchable by city or zip code.

Magazines

News Magazines

Atlantic Unbound
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Includes incomplete features from the current issue, from stories available only on the web page, and from the archives of past issues. Only subscribers to the magazine or online subscribers may access the complete stories.
E-Commerce Times
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/
"A free online publication, with daily news and feature articles for entrepreneurs and companies doing business on the Internet. "
MoJo Wire
http://www.mojones.com/
"Daily news for the skeptical citizen" from Mother Jones, an alternative news monthly. There are links to the current month's issue, previous issues, and a search engine to allow searches by subject.
The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
The table of contents of the current issue, with links to some of the stories. Also includes archives of issues back to 1996, and a search engine which searches full-text articles from the Web site.
Newsweek.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/site/newsweek/
Today's news, top stories from the latest issue, and links to the magazine's table of contents, overseas editions, special issues and a photo gallery.
Time.com
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/toc/
Brief descriptions with links to stories from the current issue. Time Daily links to the day's stories, and a search box allows keyword searching of past stories.
U.S. News Online
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
Top stories from the current issue, a search box to the archives, and links to back issues are features of this site

Popular Magazines

adflip
http://www.adflip.com/
"The world's largest searchable database of classic print ads. You can search by category, by decade, even by year." Covers 1940 to the present year.
Byte
http://www.byte.com/
Weekly computer magazine with archives by issue from 1994, and by topic.
Community ConneXion : A Celebration of Community, Nature & Spirit Within
http://www.connexion.org/
A non-profit co-operative of over 150 organizations and businesses in Oregon and S.W. Washington
Good Housekeeping
http://goodhousekeeping.women.com/gh/
Advice about food and recipes, home and family, finances, and more.
Ms. Magazine
http://www.msmagazine.com/
News of the day from a feminist perspective.
The National Enquirer
http://www.nationalenquirer.com
Links to stories from the current issue, with a Search box for previous stories.
Old House Chronicle Magazine
http://www.oldhousechronicle.com/
In one frame is the latest issue of the magazine, and in the other are links to a message board, a search engine by topic, an archive by date of previous issues, and a list of resources.
Quilters Newsletter Magazine
http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/qnm/index.htm
A table of contents with selected articles from the latest issue, along with information about quilt shows and a calendar of events by location. Look for the QNM Index link in the banner for a downloadable index to past issues.
Sky and Telescope Archive
http://skyandtelescope.com/magazinearchive/ssearch.asp
A free online index to Sky & Telescope from the from the first issue in November 1941 to the present.
Sports Illustrated
http://CNNSI.com/features/cover/index.html
Online articles from the magazine, a listing of additional articles to be found in the current issue and to previous issues, and links to special online features.
Utne Reader Online
http://www.utne.com/
Links to current stories, sections of the magazine, a search box for searching past articles from the Web site. Includes links to the magazines in which some stories were originally published.
TV Guide
http://www.tvguide.com/
Television listings, news and gossip, and interactive features.

Magazine Mega Sites

Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake)
http://jake.openly.com/
A source for finding out which online databases index a given newspaper, journal or magazine, for what dates, and whether the indexing source includes full-text.
Serials Solutions
http://www.multcolib.org/ref/onlineJournals/jnlsIndex.html
An alphabetical listing of all of the periodical titles included in the full-text databases to which the library subscribes, with links to the databases.
Electronic Journal Miner
http://ejournal.coalliance.org/
Built by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, this site allows searching by Keyword, Library of Congress Subject Heading, or Title. It allows limiting to free or to peer-reviewed publications and only lists ejournals and other online serials that are available from publishers or directly from their producer.
FindArticles.com
http://www.findarticles.com/
A database including full text articles from "a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 350 magazines and journals. Results of searches are listed by relevancy.
MagPortal
http://magportal.com
A search engine that searches the text of online magazines. MagPortal has a list of broad subject catagories to choose from, and a search box which uses natural language and relevancy ranking.
Newslink Magazines
http://newslink.org/mag.html
Magazines of the United States and Canada arranged by topic.

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