Library: Fake News: How to Distinguish it from Real News: Find Real News

Library Databases

ProQuest (Combined) This link opens in a new window
Includes National and regional newspapers, both historic and current. Includes access to the Los Angeles Times and the historic New York Times. To filter your search results to newspapers only, select newspapers under source type.
ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Includes business-related newspaper articles dating back to 1923.
Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration; includes a broad range of opinions on each topic with multiple source types including news articles and opinion pieces.

News Wire Services and Press Agencies

Reuters
The world's largest international multimedia news agency.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. AFP is the third largest news agency in the world,
Associated Press
An independent, non-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City.

Reused from Pace University's Real News Vs. Fake News guide.

Media Bias

Even typically reliable sources, whether mainstream or alternative, corporate or nonprofit, rely on particular media frames to report stories and select stories based on different notions of newsworthiness. The best thing to do in our contemporary media environment is to read/watch/listen widely and often, and to be critical of the sources we share and engage with on social media.

Here are some websites that can help you identify media bias.

Fair.org
A national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship.
All Sides Bias Ratings
Provides readers a sense of the political leanings of the source
Media Bias Fact Check
A comprehensive media bias resource.

Reused from Pace University's Real News Vs. Fake News guide.

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