PONE-D-20-39786: UK Newspaper Articles on COVID-19 Bereavement

A collection of UK newspaper articles analyzed in the PLOS One study 'It's like being in a war with an invisible enemy’: A document analysis of bereavement due to COVID-19 in UK newspapers. The dataset was compiled by author Lucy Selman. The temporal coverage is likely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use Cases

• Analyze media framing of grief and loss based on the document analysis described.
• Train sentiment or thematic models on pandemic-related news discourse.
• Study the portrayal of public health crises in UK media based on the described newspaper corpus.

Strengths

• Dataset is directly linked to a peer-reviewed PLOS One article, providing academic context.
• Focus on a specific, impactful topic: bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

PLOS One article PONE-D-20-39786 by Lucy Selman.

Collection Method

Likely gathered via document analysis of UK newspapers.

Time Range

Likely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Geography

United Kingdom.