MRU Library Website: Journalism &amp; Digital Media: Scan Media

Media Scanning

Monitor the local, national and international news to get story ideas, to review and analyze coverage of a topic, and to fact-check and verify news stories.

Search News Media

These databases contain newspaper and magazine articles as well as tv and radio broadcast transcripts:

Calgary Herald (1883-2010)
Cover to cover access of international, national, provincial, and local events from 125 years of the Calgary Herald, the largest and oldest daily newspaper in Alberta. This resource is available freely to all Albertans.

Globe and Mail (1936-2018)

New York Times Digital
Access to New York Times content via website or app.
What is included? News: Reporting, analysis, and cultural coverage. Cooking, Wirecutter (product reviews), Audio (shows, narrated articles and more). Limited access to Games and the Athletic. 10 articles/month to share with non-subscribers.
Historical access from the first issue in 1851 via the Times Machine
Access NYT (if you have an account).
NYT educational account activation (valid for 365 days)
How is access managed? First time users must activate their educational account which can be used for direct access to NYT via the website or app. Accounts must be renewed each year via the NYT educational access account activation link.
What is included in the subscription? News: Access to reporting, analysis, and cultural coverage. Cooking, Wirecutter (product reviews), Audio (shows, narrated articles and more). 10 digital gift articles to share with non-subscribers each month. Limited access to Games and the Athletic.
What is not included? Unlimited access to Games or the Athletic.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete
Full text for Canadian publications on a broad range of subject areas including CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
Canadian Newsstream
Access to the full text of Canadian newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines, and television and radio transcripts.
Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books, biographies, and an image collection to create a collection of regional full text content.
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
Includes full text articles from general, academic and business magazines
Alternative Press Index & Archive
A bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
Associated Press Collections Online
A vast presentation of the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press—decades worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
Authorized users: Include any person within the geographically defined area of Alberta that can authenticate via IP address using the Gale Geo IP authentication service.

Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.

Search Magazines

MRU Library subscribes to a huge number of magazines. Check out electronic versions of current and past issues of the titles listed here. We also have current subscriptions to some of these titles in print -- check out the periodical collection on the third floor of the Library & Learning Centre.

You can find more magazines using our custom journal search in LibrarySearch.

Maclean's Magazine Archive
Digitized full-image version of the complete contents of "Canada's national magazine" from 1905 to 2005.

Life Magazine Archive
An extensive full-text collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.
Time Magazine Archive
An extensive full-text collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.

FFWD Weekly Magazine
Visit the MRU Archives to see the full collection of this Calgary-based local news and entertainment weekly newspaper that ran from 1995 to 2015.

Keeping Up with Local News

Keep Up with Local News

Create a Twitter List to follow local journalists
Set up a Google News Alert
Get an email alert every time your chosen person/topic/ organization/issue is mentioned in the news.
Subscribe to RSS Feeds
Set up a feed aggregator to compile feeds from your favourite news sources and have them sent them to your device.

Hailey Siracky

Journalism & Digital Media | Scan Media