NewspaperArchive

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

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 World Archives Holding LLC^[2] On July 23, 2025, Newspaper Archive, Inc. had a rating of A from Better Business Bureau.^[3]

NewspaperArchive

Type of site	Online newspaper archive
Founded	1999
Headquarters	5314 River Run Dr Suite 110. Provo, Utah, US
Owner	World Archives Holding LLC
URL	newspaperarchive.com

As of June 2008^[update], 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 2025, 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.^[4]

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 The digitized newspapers that are currently available and OCR'd represent a fraction of the 150 million pages of historical documents that World Archives Holding LLC maintains in its microform archive.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.^[5][6]

NewspaperArchive claims as of 30 June 2025 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes content from 16,524 publications and over 3,525 cities from all over the world—big cities, small towns, and everything in between—but we focus on staying close to home with newspaper publications from small towns, where you are more likely to find your family.^[7] In 2020, Heritage Microfilm acquired World Archives, the parent company of NewspaperArchive. 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, the World Archives platform was rebranded as Storied. NewspaperArchive was included as part of the Storied platform.