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Newspapers, News Magazines, and Television News: Newspapers

Contemporary Newspapers

Historic Newspapers

American Newspapers

Richmond Times-Dispatch and its preceding papers available online from 1850--1922 via Chronicling America (see entry below) as Daily Dispatch, 1850--1884; Richmond Dispatch, 1884--1903; Daily Times, 1886--1889; Times, 1890--1903; Times-Dispatch, 1903-1914, Richmond Times-Dispatch 1914-1922.

Chronicling America (1789--1963; dates vary for selected papers; most prior to 1923)

Based at the Library of Congress, this is an online newspaper collection millions of pages; includes several Virginia,newspapers including the Richmond Times-Dispatch and its predecessors, and several DC newspapers.

Ashland Herald-Progress - microfilm, 1919--2018, no index.
 [Ashland] Herald Progress (1919-1963) - online through Chronicling Virginia (Library of Virginia)

Richmond Christian Advocate - microfilm, 1869--1939, index on first reel of microfilm; 1869-2010 in Special Collections & Archives.

Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860--1865)

Electronic full-text access to primary Richmond newspaper during the Civil War years.

Virginia Gazette Online - 1736--1780, some known issues missing from the online version (digitized by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). Also available in Accessible Archives database (see below).

Birth of America - microfilm, 1763-1783, various newspapers; index volume at Ref. E187 .J65 

 

 

 

Most Accessible Archives subject collections include newspaper content from the colonial era through the early 20th century.

British Newspapers

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Television

Richmond Affiliates:
ABC: WRIC (channel 8)
CBS: WTVR (channel 6)
NBC: WWBT (channel 12)
PBS: WCVE (channel 23)

National/International
ABC News
BBC News
CBS News
CNN
CNN International Ed.
FOX News
MSNBC
NBC News
PBS News

Radio

RadioLocator
Guide to over 10,000 radio station sites and 2,000 internet radio streams worldwide

Radio Stations - Virginia (NewsLink)
List of stations categorized by genre

National Public Radio

BBC Radio