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Dataset Description

This media storms dataset contains metadata and full text descriptions of all news articles identified as media storms in our paper "When it Rains it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem".

For only the news articles identified in media storms, use the smaller mediaStormArticles.tsv file. For all articles in NELA-GT-2020, NELA-GT-2021, and NELA-Local with story-cluster labels, use the larger storyClusterArticles.tsv.gz file.

  • Curated by: Ben Litterer, David Jurgens, Dallas Card. Original data curated by creators of NELA-GT-2020, NELA-GT-2021, and NELA-Local (associated papers linked below).

Uses

This data can be used to model media storms (large, ubiquitous, long lasting stories) between April 2020 - December 2021.

Dataset Structure

For dataset field descriptions, reference documentation for NELA-GT-2020, NELA-GT-2021, and NELA-local. Full text is contained in content and labels indicating which media storm an article took part in are indicated in stormID.

Source Data

The underlying data for this dataset are from NELA-GT-2020, NELA-GT-2021, and NELA-local. We have identified media storms in these data and added cluster labels indicating which articles took part in which media storms.