Library: COVID-19's Impact on Business: Business News

Popular Business News Sources in Newspapers

The business news platforms you use everyday are great sources for information on the affect of COVID-19.

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS AT THE Baker University LIBRARY

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Wall Street Journal provides articles on business and financial topics.
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Coverage includes 1984-present.

1. In the Advanced Search screen, type: COVID-19 live updates
2. Search
3. In the left navigation panel, under Document Type, Select: Company Profile or Industry Report
(You may have to scroll down to select More Filters to see Company info)

New York Times (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Search articles from June 1980 to the present.
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Accessed via ProQuest U.S. Newsstream.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window Search for news articles and transcripts from popular sources, such as the Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC) and others.
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Includes over 1,000 full-text newspapers and 900,000 television and radio transcripts.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
ProQuest US Newsstream This link opens in a new window Search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Full-text available.
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Covers a wide range of business topics.
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Provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Coverage 1985-present. Updated daily.

Financial Times

The Financial Times is embedded within the database, ABI/Inform Collection.
For general information, search: Coronavirus
For specific information, search:
Coronavirus and (your company) OR Coronavirus and (your industry)
For example, Coronavirus and Ford; OR Coronavirus and automobile industry

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is embedded within Business Source Premier.
Use similar searches as listed above. Find articles such as:

Carlsson-Szlezak, P., Reeves, M., & Swartz, P. (2020). What Coronavirus Could Mean for the Global Economy. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 2–10.
MANKINS, M., GARTON, E., & SCHWARTZ, D. (2021). Future-Proofing Your Organization. (cover story). Harvard Business Review, 99(5), 42–48.

Tech-focused Business News Outlets

The Verge | Coronavirus Disrupts China and the World: Updates on the Outbreak Scroll down for updates on tech-related COVID-19 news.
Wired COVID-19 related content from Wired, which "focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics."
PC Mag from tech giants for the latest updates."
ZDNet/ Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic ""ZDNet brings together the reach of global and the depth of local, delivering 24/7 news coverage and analysis on the trends, technologies, and opportunities that matter to IT professionals and decision makers."

Popular Business Blogs, Newsletters, AND Podcasts

The Indicator Podcast Short podcasts from NPR's Planet Money released every weekday afternoon covering economic current events and indicators. Many current episodes focus on the economic impact of COVID-19, such as how to track the impact in real time, the effect on the labor market, etc.
The Marketplace Podcast ""We bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more." Includes many current episodes on COVID-19's impact on online retailers, central bank interest rate cuts, festival cancellations, etc."
Morning Brew Newsletter A daily newsletter that covers a range of business-related topics. Includes current coverage of COVID-19 in the business world.
Calculated Risk Blog Finance and economics focused blog that posts short articles on a variety of indicators. Some current articles are focused on COVID-19.
Entrepreneur.com Articles and posts at entrepreneur.com tagged with COVID-19.

COVID-19 Business News in Article Databases

Quickly see and search coronavirus related news in magazines.
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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window Find articles that cover the full range of business topics, including company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, and SWOT analyses.
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Provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. Subject areas include: accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Indexing and abstracting from 1965-present. Some cases indexing go back further than 1965. Updated daily.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window Contains articles on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.
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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry is the perfect companion to the business and management content in ABI/INFORM. The database covers major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics from more than 2,000 publications, with more than 90% in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics with a trade or industry focus. Coverage: 1975-present.