Information published in the first few days after the event usually starts to provide more details. Common sources include: newspaper articles, interviews with professionals/experts, as well as other information published through media that may have first reported out about the event: social media, internet news sources, and some television news sources.
The information published is expanded beyond the basics and may include more contextual information, such as photographs, statistics, chronology, interviews with experts/witnesses, etc. Explanations for the event may start to be published and discussed.
Popular Online News Websites:
One way to find coverage of past events: CNN Transcripts
To find coverage from a few days after an past event through the library, you can limit the search in one of our databases to just that day or date range (usually under advanced search).
Gale OneFile: News is a really good database to search. Under the advanced search, you can easily limit to a single day of news articles (see example below for a search of the Notre Dame Fire that occurred April 15, 2019).
Library Databases