The Library subscribes to the Washington Post. Get the username and password in the library for online access.

How to access our databases.

Check out the HBW News from Reina’s journalists created last Spring! It’s fantastic!  Available with APS login.

Watch for links to this year’s school newspaper from Christy’s journalists at H-B!

Recommended Databases:

• Daily news and archived past news stories from The New York Times and thousands of other newspapers can be searched up in our database called Gale News.  Find that database in the High School Databases menu as described at the link above. Provides text but not all associated images or the “layout” that publishers intended.
• Daily newspapers with more of the “look and feel” that the publishers intended:  available in World Book Advanced – Under “Research & Resources” in the upper right hand corner of its home page. Find newspapers from all over the world and every state in the U.S. — just today’s issue. The tool does not provide back issues across all newspapers.
• SORA contains over 100 digital magazines, including The Week!
• World History in Context– see fantastic video, reference and magazine articles there with a quick search.
• American History in Context– video, reference and magazine articles there with a quick search.
• Historical Newspapers:  Arlington Public Library provides card-holders online access to these databases:  New York Times (Historical), The Evening Star (local to DC), The Washington Post, and Alexandria Gazette, and from many important US newspapers:  Proquest Newspapers.  Find additional sources of freely available  Library of Congress as well as this source for African American Newspapers from history.
• NewsELA is a small database that is not maintained by the library. Find it linked in some Canvas Courses. Its features make it user-friendly for developing readers of English as it presents the news at varying reading levels for the user to select.

Reputable News sources* on the Internet, whose editorial boards represent a broad spectrum of views:

*Large successful and long-standing news agencies such as the following make journalists compete to work for them. Getting a job at such a well respected news outlet can advance a journalist’s career if they can meet the expectations for sound journalism. Professional journalists may be trained at schools of journalism like Columbia University, George Washington U, and their graduates adhere to high standards professed in the Journalist’s Code of Ethics.  Furthermore, scholars have worked to identify, measure, and rate various media sources for their bias here. The chart is endorsed by the League of Women Voters, long respected as unbiased and supportive of fair elections.

• Washington Post
• Wall Street Journal
• Christian Science Monitor
• BBC
• New York Times
• C-SPAN – provides live and recorded video coverage of US House and Senate hearings as they occur and radio programming with speeches and interviews of key political figures, calls in by listeners…(primary sources are abundant)
• ABC News
• CNN Politics
• CBS News
• MSNBC News
• Fox News
• PBS NewsHour
• ScienceNews for Students
• Science Daily – links to breaking news in a variety of topics!

Podcasts- download and listen, or view on your device:

• CNN, NPR, PRI, and the Council on Foreign Relations are a few sources of excellent programming– listen and/or view.
• America Abroad runs outstanding 50 minute programs on important topics in America’s relationship with other countries.

APS-provided iPads may presently have a News app that you can configure to show the topics you wish (it functions like a generalized RSS feed.)

Print – available in our library:

• Washington Post
• The Week
• Arlington Magazine
• Foreign Affairs
• Scientific American
• Wired
• The National Review
• National Geographic Kids
• The New Yorker
• Popular Mechanics
• Muy Interesante – en Espanol!
• Reportero Doc – en Espanol!
• Chop Chop – en Espanol!
• People, Weekly
• Make Magazine
• The Atlantic
• Bon Appetit
• Faces: People, Places and Cultures
• Mad Magazine
• Real Simple
• Smithsonian (free!)

Election Day results headlines suggest the possible bias across newspapers. Photo credit: Isaac Studley, H-B student.

Elections and Politics

Many thanks to Theresa Flynn (former Supervisor of Libraries in APS) for these contributions!  Note:  some of sites include significant bias. They are offered as support to lessons from Common Sense Media and Librarians in order to facilitate lessons that skill students to critically evaluate sources for bias, authenticity and the application of The Society of Journalists’ code of ethics.

Political Party sites:

• Democratic National Committee:  https://www.democrats.org/
• Green Party:  https://www.gp.org/
• Libertarian Party:  https://www.lp.org/
• Republican National Committee:  https://www.gop.com

Additional sites:
ALA’s “Great Websites for Kids” (lots on Government, little on the elections):  https://gws.ala.org/category/social-sciences/politics-government
Christian Science Monitor:  https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics
Fact Check:  https://www.factcheck.org/
League of Women Voters:  https://lwv.org/
NPR:  https://www.npr.org/sections/politics/
PBS NewsHour (has educator materials):  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/politics/ (PBS for students: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/tag/politics/)
Politico:  https://www.politico.com/
Politifact:  https://www.politifact.com/
Real Clear Politics:  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Lessons

• Separating Fact from Opinion
• Evaluating Sources

Link to this web page by scanning the QR Code above.