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Los Angeles Times One of the most extensive online papers, with impressive search facilities. More than 50,000 pages of information and news -- updated every two minutes, 24 hours a day.
New York Times A wide selection from the print edition, many extra features and archives and one of the best Book Reviews online.
Washington Post The best American newspaper online -- plenty of national and international coverage, plus some excellent interactive features, including searches and an International index.

PBS Online American Public Broadcasting ... one of the more sophisticated online offerings, with companion texts, guides

The Online NewsHour Excellent website for the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. It has a comprehensive archive with every NewsHour transcript going back to October 1995, a fine search engine and pleasing graphics.

Frontline Online PBS's premiere documentary show, with full transcripts two weeks after broadcast

The Point PBS's public-affairs site will feature companion Web sites for many of PBS's non-fiction programs including FRONTLINE, P.O.V. and "Straight Talk", plus a soapbox area to sound off on a variety of topics, civic resources.

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Newspaper Search Engines
- AJR's excellent list
- CJR's search page
AP Newswire Excellent site, offering news within the minute, plus the ability to load a Java ticker on your desktop

Mercury News Mercury Mail offers e-mail service to keep you up-to-date on everything from stock market news to sports and entertainment.

Business Wire Up to date business news bites from major news organizations

News Archives

Christian Science Monitor archives One of the most extensive newspaper archives available. Small fee per article.

Pathfinder Archives Search Time, People, Fortune and Life for the past month
Washington Post -- Two weeks for Free Free search and retrieval for the past 2 weeks
Washington Post Archives - Since 1977 Free search going back to 1977, but you have to pay a small fee for retrieval of the articles

Boston Globe -- 15 years Search fifteen years of Globe staff-written stories. Searches remain free, but charges apply to the retrieval of full text stories.