CCTV News WeChat Headlines with Coded News Values (2014-2024)

Huawei TAN compiled a dataset of news headlines from the official CCTV News WeChat account spanning 2014 to 2024. The 135.5 KB collection includes coded variables for news values like timeliness and proximity, along with coding results from multiple coders. It was created to support a research article submitted to PLOS ONE.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency of news value categories like timeliness and proximity across the year_of_publication.
• Measure inter-coder reliability using the coding_results_from_multiple_coders field.
• Track longitudinal shifts in news_headlines framing by Chinese state media over a decade.
• Train classifiers to predict news value categories from headline text features.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year time_range from 2014 to 2024.
• Includes manually coded variables for news values with multiple coders for reliability checks.
• Dataset is sufficient to reproduce the results of the associated peer-reviewed study.

Limitations

• Small dataset at 135.5 KB, indicating a limited number of headline records.
• Scope is limited to a single media outlet (CCTV News) on one platform (WeChat).
• Coding results may reflect the subjective judgments of the specific coders involved.

Provenance

Source

Headlines collected from the official 'CCTV News' WeChat account.

Collection Method

Manually collected and coded for news values by researchers.

Time Range

2014 to 2024.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-03.

Geography

China (content from a Chinese state media outlet).