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== ''USA TODAY'' digital archives ==

{{archive top|'''Pinned''' as a link to the USA TODAY digital archives for Wikipedia research purposes. Please update as necessary. [[User:PK-WIKI|PK-WIKI]] ([[User talk:PK-WIKI|talk]]) 19:51, 6 May 2024 (UTC)}}

[[USA TODAY]] digital archives are available via [[ProQuest]]. The newspaper is included in (at least) their products:
*[https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/globalnewsstream/ Global Newsstream]
*[https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/nationalsnews_shtml/ U.S. Newsstream]

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* [https://www.proquest.com/publicationbrowse/3B54DB4FB9064939PQ/1 Direct link to search for "USA Today" publications at ProQuest] (must be logged in via ProQuest)
:* [https://www.proquest.com/publication/45107/citation/3B54DB4FB9064939PQ/4 USA TODAY (pre-1997 Fulltext)] (April 1, 1987 - February 14, 1997)
:* [https://www.proquest.com/publication/15008/citation/3B54DB4FB9064939PQ/2 USA TODAY]	(February 17, 1997 - present)

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== USA Today to Remove 23 Articles After Investigation Into Fabricated Sources ==

[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/business/media/usa-today-fabricated-sources.html Per NYT]. Should this be mentioned somewhere? [[User:Endwise|Endwise]] ([[User talk:Endwise|talk]]) 17:34, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

:I just added that info to the bottom under a "controversies" section. [[Special:Contributions/2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140|2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140]] ([[User talk:2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140|talk]]) 15:43, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

[[NewsGuard]] gave the [[Fake News]] a 100 percent credibility rating and still gives the same rating to USA Today today. That might also be worth mentioning. --[[User:Conspiration|Con]]<sup>[[User talk:Conspiration|spiration]]</sup> 21:47, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

:I doubt they'll ever update that. News Guard and other fact checkers seem to be more to preserve the status quo than to actually rate journalism; I emailed MBFC and they refuse to ding USA Today's rating as apparently 23 fake articles doesn't mean an intent to deceive. They ding other sources for even a single failed fact check, even if it's only a partial fail (as in "half true"). [[Special:Contributions/2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140|2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140]] ([[User talk:2600:1702:2550:3F8F:AED2:4CD3:A390:5140|talk]]) 00:17, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

== Best seller list gone? ==

Please add coverage of this topic. I just saw the list mentioned in the past tense and came here to find out about it.
https://twitter.com/mostlybree/status/1602352001324650519?t=qZz1tac3_qI8Jyjsfu4cuw&s=19 [[User:Pifvyubjwm|Pifvyubjwm]] ([[User talk:Pifvyubjwm|talk]]) 09:56, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
:A temporary hiatus isn't really worth mentioning. They've said they'll have updates on the best seller list feature in 2023, I suggest we wait and see what the long-range plan turns out to be. If they discontinue it permanently, there'll be plenty of coverage on it. [[User:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#066293;">'''Schazjmd'''</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Schazjmd|<span style="color:#738276;">''(talk)''</span>]] 19:39, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

== Political alignment ==

I removed the "political" line from the infobox to comply with the definition at [[Template:Infobox newspaper]]:

* '''''political''' – political leanings of the newspaper, e.g. [[Centre-right]], cited to a [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable source]]. For use only when a newspaper has formally aligned its news coverage with a political party or movement. Do not use the infobox for allegations of bias or descriptions of the opinion page.''

This infobox entry is not appropriate for ''USA Today'' or for most American general-interest newspapers, whose newsrooms (say that they) are not affiliated formally with any political party or tendency.

The "political = middle" statement was cited to a Boston University Library document, which appears to be based on the paper's (non-)endorsement for president in 2012, and not at all on its news coverage. I turned it into a prose statement (apparently BU thinks ''USA Today'' is the only "moderate" editorial page among major US daily newspapers) and attached it to the "Opinion Section" section. In the main text of the article, discussions of the editorial page's partisan allegiance and of accusations of bias in news reporting remain appropriate and welcome. <span class="nowrap"><sub>```</sub> [[User:Toll Booth Willie|t b '''w i l l i e''']] <sub>`</sub> <small>[[User Talk:Toll Booth Willie|$1.25]]</small> <sub>`</sub></span> 20:39, 20 February 2025 (UTC)