DEXL 713: Executive Leadership, Finance, and Governance

You can search for local news using Google or Duck Duck Go.

In your search, include:

• The school district name or town name
• NY
• The word news
• “school board” or "town board" in quotation marks. (Using quotation marks around a phrase searches for the exact phrase.)
• You could also include other phrases and/or people’s names.

Example searches

• "school board" clyde savannah central school NY
• Brighton Central School District NY news “school board” Bernhardt
• Hilton Central School District NY news “school board” social media lawsuit
• Batavia NY "town board" news

This is a partial list of news sources in Western New York. 

Buffalo Area

Rochester and Finger Lakes Areas

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You can also find news reporting on local television stations such as WIBV in Buffalo, and WHEC in Rochester.

You can use advanced searching syntax to search an entire website for mention of a particular topic or phrase.

Visit Google or Duck Duck Go and use site: in your search string.

Example: Search WDKX website for news about school boards

Enter this search string into either Duck Duck Go or Google:

site:wdkx.com “school board”

Example: Search WXXI website for news about Hilton's school board

You can use the “Wikipedia trick” to evaluate news stories from sources you don’t recognize.