Multipurpose World News Headlines from 18 Major Media Sources

News headlines are collected from 18 major media sources including Fox Business, Reuters, BBC, and The New York Times. A script checks for new headlines every 20 minutes, with data acquisition starting on March 21, 2020. The dataset creator intends to update it daily, subject to system availability.

Use Cases

• Train headline classification models based on the variety of news sources.
• Analyze media coverage trends over time based on the 20-minute collection intervals.
• Perform sentiment analysis on news content from the listed publishers.
• Study the framing of events across different media outlets.

Strengths

• Data is collected from 18 distinct and prominent media sources.
• Collection began on a specific date: March 21, 2020.
• The script is designed to check for updates at a high frequency (every 20 minutes).

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

Headlines scraped from 18 listed websites including Foxbusiness.com, Reuters, and Bbc.com.

Collection Method

A script checks for new headlines every 20 minutes and adds them to a database.

Time Range

Collection started March 21, 2020; end date is ongoing.

Freshness

The creator intends daily updates, but this is dependent on system availability.