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National NewsChabot TV (Chabot College Television), Channel 27 http://www.chabot.org/ChabotTV/
Program Schedule: http://www.chabot.org/ChabotTV/schedule.asp
KGO-ABC, Channel 7 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/
KPIX-CBS, Channel 5
http://www.kpix.com/
KTVU-FOX, Channel 2 (News Source for BayInsider)
http://www.bayinsider.com/news/
KRON, Channel 4 http://www.kron.com/
Northern California Newspapers http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/California.html#newspapers
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Television/RadioInternational News (for Middle East news, click here)MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
CNN (Cable News Network) http://www.cnn.com/
National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/
ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/
Online Newshour, with Jim Lehrer (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/Alternative Newspapers/Web SitesYahoo! News Current News: http://news.yahoo.com/
Archives Search: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/options
Contains the current three months' worth of news from several different resources, including the AP and Reuters newswires, ABCNews.com, Business Wire, Contra Costa Times, Forbes.com, Rolling Stone, and the San Jose Mecury News. You can narrow your search by date range, title(s) of news source(s), and one or more of sixteen categories
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/
Full text of the current two weeks' stories available here.
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/
Requires free registration to view stories. New York Times is available as full text going back to 1980 in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Current two weeks of articles available for free as full text. To view articles going further back in time, search Lexis-Nexis Academic. Full-text articles are available back to 1977.
Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/
Current week of articles available for free as full text. For viewing articles further back in time, search Lexis-Nexis Academic.
Chabot has current three months on paper. Available on Microfilm: 1967-1993
Financial Times http://news.ft.com/
The premiere web site for business news. Selections include News, Markets, Industries, and Companies, all leading to news stories which you can then search by your particular search terms. The "Total Search" engine includes a pull down menu on the left which you can choose to further narrow down your search. When you get to your list of search results, use the pull down menu on the upper right to list your results either by date or by relevance. Full text stories from the last thirty days are not only from the Financial Times but from many publications from around the world
Wall Street Journal http://public.wsj.com/home.html
Limited information available to the public for free (not full text to all stories even for today). (Look under anywhere where it says "Free Information"
Chabot Library has current four months in print. Also has the following on microfilm: 1965-1978 (Eastern Edition), 1979-1986 (Western Edition), 1987-1993 (Eastern Edition), 1994- (Western Edition).The Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Village Voice http://www.villagevoice.com/
The nation's most popular alternative newspaper
AlterNet.org http://www.alternet.org/
With articles mainly written from an editorial perspective, AlterNet provides a good sample of articles published in many alternative newspapers and magazines, in addition to their own feature articles.
TomPaine.com http://www.TomPaine.com/
Editorials on current events from an alternative perspective
The Independent (from Great Britain) http://www.independent.co.uk
Commentaries Page: http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
From Great Britain, provides good coverage of day-to-day news and many thought provoking essays (from their Commentaries Page).
WebActive.com http://www.webactive.com/
Includes RealAudio broadcasts of alternative news programs including Democracy NOW, Pacifica Network News, Free Speech Radio news, Radio Nation, CounterSpin, and Environmental News Network. You will only be able to listen to these broadcasts, off campus. WebActive also contains a directory to many organizations
OpenDemocracy
http://www.opendemocracy.com/
Editorial pieces from Great Britain
Common Dreams News Center http://www.CommonDreams.org/
News, editorials, and opinions given by Common Dreams, a "a national non-profit citizens' organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America's future."
Directories to Newspapers and Other News MediaU.S. News Archives on the Web http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
News Directory http://www.newsdirectory.com/
Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
AJR Newslink http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html
College News http://www.collegenews.com/
WWW News Resource Page http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/netnews1.htm
Ethnic/Diversity NewsWorld News Megastories http://www.megastories.com/
BBC News Online http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers
http://www.ipl.org/reading/news/
News Directory http://www.newsdirectory.com/
Islam Online http://www.islam-online.net/english/index.shtml
albawaba.com: Middle East News Information http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3
Middle East Internet Pages http://www.middle-east-pages.com/me-newspaper.html
ArabicNewspaper.com http://www.arabicnewspaper.com/
Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.net English page: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
Al Jazeera is a renowned independent television network of the Middle East, and most recently is famous for receiving information about the terrorist group, Al Queda, including the televising of interviews and announcements from Al Queda
Afghan News Network Services
http://www.afghannews.net/
Sabawoon.com (Afghanistan News Source)
http://www.sabawoon.com/
DAWN (Pakistan Newspaper) http://www.dawn.com/
Northern California Ethnic/Diversity Newspapers http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/California.html#ethnic
TrafficAfrocentric News http://www.afrocentricnews.com/2index.html
Black Press USA http://www.blackpressusa.com/
Black Issues in Higher Education
http://www.blackissues.com/
Darnell's Black Radio Guide http://www.radioblack.com/
Asian Week http://www.asianweek.com/
Deaf Today http://www.deaftoday.com/
Queer Information Network's Publication Guide
http://manifestonews.org/QIN/publications/index.html
Washington Blade http://www.washblade.com/
The Advocate http://www.advocate.com/
Yahoo!'s Planet Out News
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/community/planet_out/
Latino Beat http://www.latinobeat.net/
Islam Online
http://www.islam-online.net/english/index.shtml
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
http://www.jewishjournal.com/
Saigon Bao (Directory of Online Vietnamanese Newspapers) http://www.saigonbao.com/
WeatherSFGate: Live Traffic http://www.sfgate.com/traffic/
Bay Area Traffic Report (from BayInsider.com) http://www.bayinsider.com/autos/traffic/
California Highway Information http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/
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