Where can I look to find stories that a news station did over 20 years ago?

[1NightWolf]

I have sort of a specific month and year that i need. Would the news station have archived stories sorted by days back then?

Can I talk to the news station or would i need a Private Investigator to help me?

It's related to a missing persons cold case.

 

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I have sort of a specific month and year that i need. Would the news station have archived stories sorted by days back then?

Can I talk to the news station or would i need a Private Investigator to help me?

It's related to a missing persons cold case.

A news station should have an archive. Ask!

This can work, universities grant degrees in Journalism & need collections for study:

Home | Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Vanderbilt TV News Archive

tvnews.vanderbilt.edu

Research Guides: News Sources: Archival TV News & Newsreels

Research Guides: News Sources: Archival TV News & Newsreels

guides.tricolib.brynmawr.edu

https://archive.org/details/tv

Also check newspaper archives for the area. Each state (that I've ever tried) has one or two -- usually at a university journalism school or the State Historical Society. (Old genealogist here, no idea how many hours I've read newspapers on microfilm & microfiche. Yeah, before the Internet. Don't get me started. Hhhmm looks like maybe I started?)

Examples:

West Virginia and Regional History Center | Newspapers

Research Guides: West Virginia Newspapers: Access Historic Newspapers

A guide to the West Virginia Newspapers portal powered by WVU Potomac State College and information on accessing other WV newspapers.

libguides.potomacstatecollege.edu

Home

This is for Kentucky.

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kyhistory.com

Another for Kentucky.

Newspapers do stop publishing & towns change their names. The Kansas City Star & the Kansas City Times merged in 1991, sometimes you need to do location research to figure out which news sources will help.

Mind telling us the town & state? I can probably suggest county-level resources.

Please let us know what you find!