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This article is about the website NewspaperArchive. For a list of newspaper archives, see List of newspaper archives.

NewspaperArchive
Type of site
Online newspaper archive
Founded1999
Headquarters5314 River Run Drive
Suite 110
Provo, UT, 84660
OwnerWorld Archives
ParentCharles Thayne Capital
URLnewspaperarchive.com

NewspaperArchive is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers, and claims to be the world's largest newspaper archive.[1] The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is currently overseen by Heritage Archives, Inc.[2]

As of June 2008, NewspaperArchive said it provided full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represented 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities. As of 2015, the product includes newspapers from Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Uzbekistan.[3]

Searches can be conducted by keyword, date, and location. Results are free, but access to the newspaper articles available to download in PDF format requires a subscription. Searching is available directly from newspaperarchive.com or via news.google.com/archivesearch. The company says that it follows the Automated Content Access Protocol in which its clients have a say in what is available online. The digitized newspapers that are currently available and OCR'd represent a fraction of the 150 million pages of historical documents that Heritage Microfilm maintains in its microform archive. According to NewspaperARCHIVE.com, it is microfilming 2.5 million pages of newspapers each month and has 180,000 reels of microfilm.[4][5]

A reviewer in 2004 observed that at the time the archive had some errors with year dates,[6] in June 2014, The Iowa Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation after complaints about deceptive and misleading practices that include charging subscribers for involuntary donations to a charity,[7] and on August 1, 2014, Newspaper Archive, Inc. had a rating of F from Better Business Bureau.[8]

The website was brought down for two days in June 2008 by the Iowa Flood of 2008, which cut power to its data center in Cedar Rapids. The company said that its physical archives, which are stored on higher ground, were not damaged.[9]

NewspaperArchive stated as of June 30, 2018 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes 9,829 newspapers.[10] In 2020, Heritage Microfilm assets were rebranded as World Archives and acquired by Charles Thayne Capital[11]. As a part of the acquisition, new owner Charles Thayne Capital went on to name former Ancestry.com executive, Kendall Hulet, as CEO of the platform.

In 2023, World Archives launched a new family history brand, Storied.com, that offers the NewspaperArchive content with NewspaperArchive.com continues to operate to provide research-oriented users a place to discover articles, obituaries, marriage announcements, and other newspaper-oriented content.

Since being acquired by World Archives, NewspaperArchive.com has undergone a reputational turnaround, with its Better Business Bureau rating improving from an F to an A+.[12] NewspaperArchive has also made significant investments in expanding its newspaper content. The platform now includes 16,843 publications from over 3,577 cities around the world and continues to add new content daily.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Heritage Archives Inc. "Newspaperarchive.com". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Heritage Archives, Inc. "About us". Newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
  3. ^ Heritage Archives Inc. "World Newspaper Archives – Newspaperarchive.com". Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  4. ^ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. June 27, 2005. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  5. ^ "Our Mission". NewspaperArchive.com. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  6. ^ Popik, Barry (2004). "Digital Historical Newspapers: A Review of the Powerful New Research Tools". Journal of English Linguistics. 32 (2). Sage. doi:10.1177/0075424204265818. Newspaperarchive is notorious for electronically providing the wrong search dates. ... An '1848' newspaper might be from '1948.' A '1949' newspaper might be from '1994.' Even the newspaper title might be wrong. Also, if you have a dial-up modem, downloading the actual page can be slow.
  7. ^ Jordan, Erin (June 24, 2014). "Cedar Rapids company under state review after complaints". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  8. ^ "BBB Business Review". Better Business Bureau. August 1, 2014. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
  9. ^ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. June 27, 2005. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  10. ^ "NewspaperArchive® | Genealogy & Family History Records". Newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  11. ^ "World Archives | The World's History Online". worldarchives.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2025. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
  12. ^ "Newspaperarchive.com | BBB Business Profile | Better Business Bureau". www.bbb.org. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
  13. ^ "NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2026 | NewspaperArchive". newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
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