MRU Library Website: Public Relations: Media & News Sources

Media Scanning

Monitor the local, national and international news to track and analyze coverage of a topic, and to fact-check and verify information found on various media platforms.

News Databases

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete This link opens in a new window
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.
Gale OneFile: CPI.Q This link opens in a new window
Provides the most-requested Canadian reference information available, includes full text articles from general, academic and business magazines.
Alternative Press Index & Archive This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.

Cision Newswire
Press releases from organizations across various sectors and industries.
PR Newswire
Current news releases, including multimedia press releases, investor relations and disclosure, and company news.

MRU Library Search

Search across article databases via LibrarySearch for current and past news.

If the full text of the article is not in the database, click on the "Look for a Copy" link to find it in another database.

More News Databases

Search News Media

This custom Google search retrieves results from Calgary print, TV, radio and web-based news outlets. For best results include Calgary as a search term.

Social Media Search Tools

Search Social Media

Social Searcher
Searches across multiple sources including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit.
Social Bearing
Searches Twitter
Social Mention
A search and analysis tool that monitors multiple social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google.
Google Social Search
Searches Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn
Twitter Advanced Search

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.