Political Science 101: Huezo

News is information and commentary on contemporary affairs taken to be publicly important (Schudson 2012).

News is a popular source. Popular sources are typically written by journalists to inform or entertain a general audience, whereas academic sources, also called scholarly sources, are written by experts in a field, people who have advanced degrees in a given discipline.

This chart compares popular sources and academic sources and their features:

Text and chart adapted from UTexas Libguide.

Source: Media Bias 101: The Difference Between News, Analysis, and Opinion

News: What happened.

Analysis: What happened and why — writer considers facts and draws conclusions.

Opinion: What I think about what happened.

"Newspapers of record" are national newspapers that have a longstanding reputation for accurate reporting and a commitment to presenting a wide range of perspectives on important issues. They are called "newspapers of record" because they aim to be the best possible record for what happened in the nation on a given day (Caulfield 2021).

The library provides online access to the most recent issues of three national newspapers of record:

• The New York Times (GCC Library also offers access to NYT.com. See instructions here)
• The Wall Street Journal (past 30 days also available in print at the Verdugo Library)
• The Washington Post

As well as online access to other major US newspapers:

• Boston Globe
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Los Angeles Times (past 30 days also available in print at the Verdugo Library)

Some of these publications are available online and/or in print (paper copies). Print newspapers are accessible on the main floor of the Verdugo Library and are for in-library use only.

• Daily News (past 30 days also available in print at the Verdugo Library)
• Glendale News Press (past 30 days also available in print at the Verdugo Library)
• The Los Angeles Sentinel 
• The Los Angeles Times  (past 30 days also available in print at the Verdugo Library)
• The San Fernando Valley Sun
• El Vaquero

The most recent issue of these Armenian language newspapers are available in print in the Verdugo Library:

• The Armenian Observer 
• Asbarez 
• Massis weekly

African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the US that serve African-American communities. Here are direct links to online access to the most recent issues of some of the major publications:

• Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)
• The Chicago Defender
• The Los Angeles Sentinel 
• The New Pittsburgh Courier 

Below are some long-established ethnic newspapers in Los Angeles.

• The Korea Times
• The Jewish Journal 
• The Korea Times
• La Opinión (Spanish-language daily newspaper)
• Rafu Shimpo (Japanese-English language online newspaper)

For more ethnic newspapers, use the Ethnic NewsWatch database.

All print newspapers are available from the newspaper rack on the main floor of the Verdugo Library (attached to the column opposite the Research Help Desk). They are for in-library use only.

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