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Religion and the Media

This guide will assist you in researching religion as portrayed in the Canadian news media. The guide highlights several key database sources accessible at most Canadian universities, and provides training materials to these sources.

What is factiva?

Factiva by Dow Jones is a subscription News and Business information service. It offers a collection of many of the world's top media outlets, trade and consumer publications, and thousands of Web sites—more than 31,000 global news and information sources from 200 countries in 26 languages. Top news sources include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Le Monde. It currently includes more than 167 Canadian news and business sources.

More information on Factiva's News sources is available here.

When do I use Factiva?

Use Factiva when you are searching major Canadian news sources, or need Canadian company, trade or business information. It also includes a substantial collection of international news and business sources. Its ability to limit the results before and after the search is particularly useful.

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