MSNBC News Transcripts from 2003 to 2022

A collection of transcripts from the MSNBC news network, spanning approximately 2003 to 2022. The dataset includes about 16,000 transcripts from 2003-2014 and a more recent scrape covering 2010-2021. It was authored by Gaurav Sood and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyzing political discourse and framing based on news transcript content.
• Training language models for media-specific NLP tasks based on the text corpus.
• Conducting longitudinal studies of news topics and language use from 2003 to 2022.
• Comparing media narratives across different news networks using related transcript datasets.

Strengths

• Covers a long time range, approximately 2003 to 2022.
• Includes a substantial number of transcripts, with about 16,000 from the earlier period.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The total row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Scraped from https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts.

Collection Method

Web scraping, as described in the associated GitHub repository.

Time Range

Approximately 2003 to 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 21:26:40; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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