Multimodal European News Coverage of the 2023 Brazil Congress Attack

73 newsbites from eight major European newspapers published in the three days following the January 8, 2023, attack on Brazil's federal government buildings. Isabel Alonso Belmonte collected this multilingual sample to explore the multimodal construction of the political event. The dataset was last updated on October 14, 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze cross-national media framing based on the sample of European newspapers.
• Study multimodal event construction based on the described multimodal nature of the newsbites.
• Compare multilingual reporting narratives based on the sample from Spanish, Italian, English, and French publications.
• Examine temporal coverage patterns based on the three-day publication window after the event.

Strengths

• Sample of 73 newsbites provides a defined corpus for analysis.
• Covers a specific three-day period (January 8-10, 2023) following the event.
• Includes content from eight named, major European newspapers across four languages.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The sample is limited to European perspectives, which may introduce geographic bias.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Collected and analyzed a sample of digital newsbites from specified newspapers.

Time Range

January 8, 2023 to January -10, 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:27:55; freshness should be verified

Geography

European newspapers (Spain, Italy, UK, France); event location: Brasilia, Brazil