Further description from EINS . Newswire ASAP is produced by IAC, and includes citations and complete text to 11 international newswires, Further descriptions can be found from Dialog . Current news is free online from many directions. There is one free news by email alert service. For past news, seek a commercial news database.
News articles are typically light and biased.
The sheer quantity of news in the large news databases make this a useful resource to fall back for any tightly focussed research topic. I once discovered an obscure scientist working in a unique field from a small 3 paragraph article in a local farmer's newspaper in England. Newswires and News Databases are just two elements of a large industry which extends to the your local newspaper and to further specialty databases. Most newspapers maintain their own local news database, and some make this available electronically. A manual clipping services may also be the option - certain firms manually page through local papers looking for advertisements or articles.