The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which once included Walt Whitman as editor, has been digitized by the Brooklyn Public Library. So far, the run of the paper from 1841 to 1902 is available online, and is keyword searchable.  Try the keyword "sewing-women" to find Whitman's 1846 editorial on women's wages, or the keyword "Superbas" to read about the baseball team later known as the Dodgers.

In an amusing and revealing sidelight to the national debate on health care, the Columbia Journalism Review discusses a false statement found in an Investor's Business Daily editorial, and the Daily's dissembling correction.

AltWeeklies.com brings together a selection of news and features published in the 129 papers that belong to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. The Association
provides a directory of its newsweeklies, including links to each paper's website.

The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The winners include David Barstow of the New York Times, who reported on conflicts of interest in television war coverage. The St. Petersburg Times was cited for its online database PolitiFact, which fact checks statements by politicians and the media.

The School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon has announced its 2009 recipients of the Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism.

The Newseum website displays daily front pages from over 700 newspapers worldwide. Links to the newspapers' websites are also provided.

After nearly 150 years, Denver's Rocky Mountain News has ceased publication. Its Friday, February 27 issue is its last.

Find full page images from the Minneapolis Morning Tribune (1909-1922) and indexing and abstracts for 1867-1908. Go to the Magazines & Newspapers, Historical databases.

Google Book Search is adding magazine content. Full text articles can be found online in their original print layout. In order to limit a search to full text magazine articles, select  Advanced Book Search and limit the search to "Full view only" and "Magazines". Currently, the selection of magazine titles is small, but the chronological range is impressive.  (For example, one can find issues of Popular Science from 1872 to 2008.) The Google blog says that more titles will be added. Unfortunately, there is no print command for articles found through this search.

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was honored for his work in trade theory. His columns for the New York Times can also be accessed through the Proquest Newsstand database.

Petrozavodsk State University is currently completing a project on digitalizing and publishing the entire collection of newspaper Olonetskiie Gubernskiie Vedomosti (News of Olonets Province, published from 1838-1917) in free access on the Web. By now, most issues (over 4,000) have been processed and can be accessed at: http://ogv.karelia.ru. By the end of 2008, they plan to publish the rest of issues. The website Ogv.karelia.ru also provides access to the bibliography of articles published in the newspaper, and during 2009 they plan to add tables of contents of all issues.

WebdoPresse indexes links to a worldwide collection of newspapers

Library staff of HCL Minneapolis compiled a brief illustrated history of Minneapolis newspapers.

The Minnesota Historical Society's Ask Ron database lets users search for newspapers in their micofilm collection.   The collection contains virtually every newspaper published in the state and territory of Minnesota since 1849.  The newspaper microfilm is located in the Minnesota History Center and is open to the public.  Check the website for hours and location.