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
Gale OneFile: News provides access to thousands of full-text newspapers from local, regional, national, and international sources. It’s a one-stop resource for current news and searchable archives. Watch tutorial.
With thousands of news sources, NewsBank Access World News allows you to track issues, find information on people and events, and look for articles that contain a certain keyword or phrase. Contains over 12,000 searchable titles that span a wide array of source types, from newspapers to blogs to newswires to videos and more, providing local, national and international information from trusted sources. Watch tutorial.
Provides selected full text for more than 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. Updated daily. Watch tutorial.
U.S. Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. With print and online editions, the titles offer researchers historic and current coverage of local, regional, and global events with journalistic balance and perspective. Watch tutorial.