LibGuides: St. Louis News & Media: Newspapers

St. Louis Newspapers

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St. Louis Post Dispatch and Suburban Journals with blogs and other enhancements; includes today’s Post-Dispatch and selected back articles; more complete full-text articles from the Post-Dispatch can be found in the Access World News database.
St. Louis American
“Missouri’s largest, most widely-read newspaper targeted to African-Americans;” weekly, founded in 1928.
Next STL
Online-only news and discussion of St. Louis local & regional issues.

St. Louis Business Journal This link opens in a new window
The St. Louis Business Journal covers local business news throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.
To gain access, click on the Access Database above. Then create an account using your college email address (@stlcc.edu or @my.stlcc.edu) and a password of your choice.

St. Louis Community College--Students, Faculty and Staff have full access to the St. Louis Business Journal through your laptop, desktop, tablet, and smart phone devices. Access the St. Louis Business Journal’s Weekly Edition, Books of Lists, Local Search Archives, Back Issues from the past six years, and much more!

Check out this brief video on registering and navigating the site.

St. Louis Business Journal
Open website. Some articles are free; others only by subscription. STLCC users can create an account for full access using an STLCC email address.
St. Louis Jewish LIght
St. Louis Chinese American News
Riverfront Times (Archive)
The Riverfront Times was an alternative news weekly targeted to young urban St. Louisans. It is no longer reporting or publishing new stories since May 2024 and has become a platform for advertising.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1988-current) This link opens in a new window
This is the library subscription to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch through the Access World News database.
Search full-text state and national articles on issues, events, business, education, government and more. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers local, national and international news for the St. Louis Area, with bureaus in Washington, D.C., Jefferson City, MO and Springfield, IL. Full coverage of state and national news is offered with an emphasis on business and the economy. St. Louis is located in a diversified economic climate, and the Post-Dispatch reports on a variety of industries including: financial services, beverage, agriculture, biotechnology, chemical, aerospace & defense and automotive. The Post-Dispatch also provides comprehensive sports coverage of baseball, hockey and football, as well as the Big 12 and Big Ten college conferences. The St. Louis area is one of the leading medical centers in the U.S. and is the home of such well-known research organizations as Washington University, Monsanto and McDonnell-Douglas/Boeing.

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News (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Includes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1996-current. Use the Publication search to limit, since the database also includes several hundred other newspapers.
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a source for current news and searchable archives.

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Neighborhood Newspapers

Call Newspapers
Includes Concord Call, Green Park Call, Mail Call, Oakville Call, and SunCrest Call, all in south St. Louis County.
Community News and Our Town
Northwest St. Louis County
FloValley News
Black Jack, Florissant, Hazelwood, & Spanish Lake. Also known as the Independent News.
The Forum
Florissant Valley's student newspaper
The Montage
Meramec’s student newpaper
The Pulse
From Gene-Del Printing, serves Brentwood, Maplewood, Rock Hill, Glendale, Crestwood, Webster Groves and Richmond Heights
The Scene
Forest Park's student newspaper
South County Times
TheSTL.com
From the organization STLMade, TheSTL's mission is "To showcase the individuals and accomplishments found in every corner of the region that are moving the area forward, helping to create more opportunities for all and addressing our challenges."
Webster-Kirkwood Times
West End Word
West NewsMagazine
West St. Louis County

Elsewhere in Missouri

Kansas City Star
This links to the public website. Full text articles can be found in the Access World News database.
Missouri Newspapers
Links to newspapers and other media sources across Missouri.
Missourinet

Access World News This link opens in a new window
This library database includes direct links to search for articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star, or a combined collection of Missouri newspapers, in addition to national and world newspaper collections. (Formerly known as NewsBank).
Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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Historical St. Louis newspapers

St. Louis Argus 1915-1926
Historical African-American newspaper. Scanned & digitized from microfilm; on the Internet Archives website. This in an ongoing project. Some years are not yet available.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003) This link opens in a new window
Access to the earliest years of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch through the ProQuest Historical Newspapers library database.
Access to historical St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text images of newspapers in PDF format.

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