Competitor analysis tools: news sources

Many competitor analysis tools are publicly available, often for free. One category of tools are general news sources. Often overlooked, these are basic starting points when researching competitor activity or industry developments.

Below are some of the sources in this category that we use when conducting competitive anlaysis:

NewsLibrary
AllYouCanRead
Factiva
Google News
AJR NewsLink
Newslookup
Newspaper Index
Newspaper Map
Newspapers.com
OnlineNewspapers.com
Press Reader
PR Newswire
Dialog NewsRoom

You can download our full list of competitive intelligence tools.