How to find news
You can often find freely available news through broadcaster's websites, YouTube and open news stories. In addition to these free services UTS Library also has TV and newspaper databases that you can use to find news from Australia and around the world.
It's really important to evaluate news items to ensure that they don't include misinformation or fake news. Look at the 'Evaluating Media Sources' page in this guide to find out how.
TV news
- TVNews Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format.
- Informit EduTV Films and Australian TV content that has been shown on free-to-air TV
Newspapers
- Newsbank Contains international, national, regional, and local news from across Australia and the world. Complete full-text content of local and regional news.
- Factiva Provides access to 8,000 sources from around the world including newspapers and business and trade publications. Factiva also contains company reports via the Companies / Markets tab.
- Trove Collection from the National Library of Australia.
The video below shows you how to find news articles using the Factiva database.
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