Black man in a cap squatting on an old television set in front of a wall of newspapers, reading a burning newspaper - from Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/photo/30803262/

Journalism offers a unique perspective on history, social change and even scientific progress, and is a key information source for tracking trends, identifying weak signals and possible black swans, and understanding the macroenvironmental context in which organisations and markets operate.

Whether you are looking for today's Financial Times or descriptions of the Titanic, we've got you covered:

  • PressReader - offers the latest newspapers, magazines and more from lifestyle reads to fashion, culture and journalism of interest to  graphic designers, commercial writers, and leisure readers alike (Read our guide to logging in for the first time)
  • GlobalNewsStream - search across the full text of all the news from around the UK and around the world from the 1980s to the present day, including newswires and BBC Monitoring reports
  • Newspapers archives - Search the full text of newspapers and retrieve stories, complete with their original presentation, layout and context, from 1741 onwards
White man and Black woman sat opposite one another at a table, both in front of microphones

 

Global perspectives - diversifying and decolonising the news

Much of the world's challenges stem from communities forming echo chambers that cannot hear one another, leading to community fragmentation, partisan politics, and overly simple solutions to complex challenges.  Challenge the colonialised lens of news reporting with perspectives from the world's largest continent with these news resources from our Diversifying and decolonising pages

African Arguments

A pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion, analysing issues facing the continent and providing a platform for a diversity of voices over 80% of articles are written by authors of African descent

PANAPRESS – the Pan African News Agency

A Senegal-based journalistic network spanning all of Africa, Panapress aims to be the most complete information portal on Africa. Available in English, French and Portuguese