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Major News Aggregators
These sources only provide contemporary news (mid-80's or 90's forward). For historical sources, see the Newspapers guide. Click the info icons below for search tips.
- US Newsstream (ProQuest Newsstand) This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to the New York Times (1995+) , the Wall Street Journal (1982+), the Los Angeles Times (1985+), the Washington Post (1987+), and the Chicago Tribune (1985+) and many other papers.
- Nexis UNI (former Lexis-Nexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowProvides full text of many major global, national, and regional newspapers as well as many television show transcripts.
- NewsBank (Access World News) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text of many US, particularly local/regional, and international newspapers (primarily English language). Also includes many television show transcripts.
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowFull-text of many major national and regional newspapers, including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and the Nikkei Weekly. Particularly strong for the business press.
Regional and Foreign Sources
For historical news and many additional sources by region or country, see the Newspaper Guide.
- BBC Monitoring: International Reports This link opens in a new windowProvides news and information based on round-the-clock monitoring of radio, TV, press, internet and news agency sources around the world. Expert selection from an extensive range of international news sources enables us to provide insightful and reliable coverage of political, economic, security and media news. Reports are translated into English from more than 100 languages, showing not only what the media are reporting but how they are telling the story. Included in Nexis UNI.
- allAfrica.com This link opens in a new windowAccess to the full text of over 140 African newspapers and magazines, including articles in French. Covers the entire African continent. NOTE: Temporarily unavailable (3/15/21) 1997+
- Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new windowSelection of full-text Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
- LatinNews – Latin American Intelligence This link opens in a new windowSource of current information, political, economic, and business analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes LatinNews Daily, Latin American Weekly Report, Latin American Economy & Business (monthly), Latin American Security & Strategic Review (monthly), Latin American Special Reports, and four regional reports (Brazil & Southern Cone, Mexico, Caribbean & Central America, Andean Group).
- Middle East Newsstream This link opens in a new windowSelection of full-text Middle Eastern newspapers and newswires covering international and Middle Eastern regional topics.
- Mideastwire This link opens in a new windowDaily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
- Asia Current News SourcesList of sources for contemporary Asian news in specific countries.
- European Current News SourcesEuropean news is well covered in the Contemporary News Aggregators (Lexis, Factiva, Newsbank). This is a list of additional sources for contemporary European news in particular countries.
- Middle East Current News SourcesList of additional sources for English and foreign language news of the Middle East.
- World News Connection (Eastview) This link opens in a new window
Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. 1995-2013. (For earlier years see Foreign Broadcast Information Service.)
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Translation service of the U.S. Government, usually attributed to the Central Intelligence Agency. It covered political, military, economic, environmental and sociological news and commentary, as well as scientific and technical information.
For later years see World News Connection.
U.S. Political Speeches & Public Statements
Speeches, official statements, and press releases
- The American Presidency ProjectFabulous site containing lots of information on the presidency, especially a fully searchable database of the Papers of the Presidents back to Washington, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (Carter to G.W. Bush), and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (2009-current). Also has party platforms back to 1840, convention speeches, candidates' remarks, election debates back to 1960, executive orders and proclamations, presidential approval back to 1941, vetoes, state of the union addresses, press briefings, and more.
- Voxgov This link opens in a new window
Provides access to real-time documents, publications, press releases, and social media posts from all branches, offices, agencies, and elected officials of the U.S. Federal Government. Extensive search and filtering options; most content is from 2000-present. Special requests for bulk downloads can be arranged.
In order to Export Data, users are required to create an account with their @princeton.edu email address.
- Federal News Service and CQ Transcripts1988-2019 (no longer updated) FNS contains White House briefings & statements by the President, Congressional hearings, National Press Club speeches (when discussing major topics or remarks by key U.S. or foreign figures), special briefings whether on record or not for attribution in addition to remarks of top ranking officials. CQ contains transcripts of 4 to 5 complete congressional hearings per day as well as press briefings from the State, Justice, and Defense departments, presidential news conferences and press briefings, and speeches and press conferences by national newsmakers, 1995+. If searching for speeches, try something like:
(HEADLINE(mccain w/8 (remarks OR speech))). - Project Vote Smart: Public StatementsLarge collection of public statements and press releases from public officials and candidates, both nationally and at the state level and for various offices.
- Congressional Record for the 43rd-114th Congresses: Parsed Speeches and Phrase Counts, 1873-2017Contains processed text from the bound and daily editions of the United States Congressional Record collected by Gentzkow et al. The bound edition covers the 43rd to 111th (1873–2011) Congresses, and the daily edition covers the 97th to 114th (1981–2017). Each edition includes all text spoken on the floor of each chamber of Congress. An automated script parses the text from each session to produce full-text speeches, metadata on speeches and their speakers, and counts of two-word phrases (bigrams) by speaker and party.
- The White House Briefing RoomOfficial White House site providing text, photos, and video of statements, speeches, remarks, proclamations, executive orders, etc.
- Presidential Speech Archive - Miller Center of Public AffairsExtensive collection of presidential speeches from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Covers all administrations, many with audio and/or video.
- Presidential Proclamations ProjectThe most complete record of presidential proclamations known to exist, with proclamations from President George Washington to President Barack Obama (approximately 10,000 records and counting). Provides a database of proclamations (and related directives), searchable by President, year, proclamation number, and issue category.
Social Media
- Politweets: Tweets of politicians, celebrities, news media, and influencers from India and the United States"This dataset contains tweets of politicians, celebrities, news media, and influencers from India and the United States. The data cover accounts of over 9600 public figures in the United States and over 33000 public figures in India. See additional project details: https://github.com/casmlab/politicians-tweets." Includes all attributes of a tweet, such as tweet text, retweet count, favorite count and time of tweet. Covers Jan. 2019-Apr 2023, though accounts were added on a rolling basis so not all cover the entire period. Data is restricted and must be requested via ICPSR's Social Media Archive (SOMAR).
- Trump Twitter ArchiveFully searchable archive of nearly all of Pres. Trump's tweets since assuming office. Data can also be downloaded in bulk as a .csv or JSON file (click on FAQ at the top). For the period prior to the 2016 election, try Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/austinreese/trump-tweets or https://www.kaggle.com/benhamner/clinton-trump-tweets.
- Tweets of Congress, 2017-2023Collects the daily tweets of both houses of Congress, encompassing 1,000+ campaign, office, committee and party accounts. The collected tweets are available as JSON datasets. Freely available on GitHub; covers June 2017-July 2023. For the most recent daily updates, see the public site.
- Politwoops: Deleted Tweets of Public OfficialsPolitwoops tracks deleted tweets by public officials, including people currently in office and candidates for office. Can be filtered by state, party, position, or politician.
Other media
- DCInbox: Congressional e-NewslettersCollects, archives, and makes publicly available every official e-newsletter sent by sitting members of the US Congress since 2010. Updated in real-time, it provides researchers with a systematic set of texts to examine the strategic choices that legislators and their staff make in crafting the content. Full dataset can be downloaded in .csv.
- 2020 U.S. Election Emails DatabaseThis corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. Contains nearly 1,000,000 emails from 16,000 senders, Dec. 2019 - Nov 2020. You can search the corpus online or request access to the dataset via a webform. See also this related downloadable corpus of more than 240,000 candidate and committee emails gathered by journalist Derek Willis over the past few years.
- Popular Political Podcasts DatasetProject run primarily out of the Brookings Institution that tracks and analyzes thousands of episodes from nearly 120 prominent political podcast series in the US. The dataset updates daily with new episode information. Variables include show name, date, episode title and description, partisan leaning, Apple Podcasts category, and url to raw audio file. Data in .csv.
- Radio News ArchiveThe experimental Radio News Archive allows people to search through English language talk & news-focused radio stations from 2016 through the present using transcripts created with automatic speech recognition technology. Includes a number of US conservative radio talk shows. MIT's MediaLab has also produced a corpus of automatically transcribed US talk radio captured during part of 2018-2019: https://github.com/social-machines/RadioTalk.
- Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Campaign DiscourseContains transcripts of speeches, TV ads and debates of 12 US general election Presidential compaigns from 1952 though 1996. In .doc, .txt, and json formats.
- United States Presidential Televised Debates, 1960-1996Contains the transcripts of United States presidential and vice presidential televised debates of the twentieth century. Includes general election debates among candidates from 1960 to 1996.
- American Rhetoric: Online Speech BankLarge collection of speeches, both political and not, in mp3, PDF, and html formats.
- State of the State SpeechesArchive of state of the state speeches by governors in all 50 states 2002-2011.
Political Advertising
Data (airings, markets, cost, etc.)
- Wesleyan Media Project: Political Advertising Analysis, 2010–Successor to the Wisconsin Advertising Project (below), 2010+ with a rolling 2-4 year embargo imposed by Kantar Media/CMAG, who supply the data. You can view the codebooks online, but you must submit a data use agreement and $20 for each campaign year requested. There is some summary data and analysis available through the press releases of the project.
- Political ad airings & content data: presidential: 2012, 2016, 2020; Congressional, gubernatorial, "down ballot" races: 2006, 2010-2020
- Population health messaging in political ads 2012 & 2016
- Health insurance ads 2013-2018 (all in one data set)
- Wisconsin Advertising Project, 1998–2008Datasets covering TV campaign ads for federal and gubernatorial elections, 1998–2008. You can view the codebooks online, but you must submit a data use agreement and $20 for each campaign year requested. All datasets are provided in SPSS and Stata formats. Storyboards of all creatives are also provided as PDFs. Over time coverage increased to all 210 media markets in the US.
- 2020 Presidential Election Political AdvertisementsRepository of over 800,000 ads and 2.5 million videos from the the 2020 U.S. presidential election posted on Facebook (including Instagram), Google, YouTube, and TikTok. From a paper by Papakyriakopoulos et al. "How Algorithms Shape the Distribution of Political Advertising: Case Studies of Facebook, Google, and TikTok." Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 532–546. https://doi.org/10.1145/3514094.3534166. Data in .csv.
- AdObserver Political Advertisements from FacebookThis database by ProPublica and NYU researchers contains ads that ran on Facebook from Oct. 2020-Feb. 2022 and were submitted by thousands of volunteers from around the world via a browser extension that automatically collected advertisements on their Facebook pages. Ads are classified using machine learning to identify likely political ads. Includes numerous data fields. Data in .csv. For additional info and insight, see NYU's Ad Observatory.
- Political TV Ad Archive 2016 ElectionProject by the Internet Archive in conjunction with their TV News Archive. Collected political TV ads in key markets during the 2016 election cycle. In addition to the videos, you can download a unique list of all ads they've collected and details of the airings, including candidate, sponsor and type, number of airings, station, location, program type, negativity, and more.
- OpenSecrets.orgGreat source for data and analysis on campaign finance at the federal level. Now includes data on political ad buys with local stations reported to the FCC. 2015–present.
- ProPublica 2012 Political Ad Buy DataData on approximately $1.2 billion in political ad buys in 33 media markets during the 2012 election. This data set was created by nearly 1,000 volunteers and curated by ProPublica reporters.
Content
- Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial ArchiveHoused at the University of Oklahoma, the Archive is the largest most comprehensive collection of political advertising in the world, with more than 90,000 commercials, TV ads back to 1950, and radio spots back to 1936. Items can be viewed on site, or a limited number can be requested remotely via a temporary loan (fees apply).
- C-SPAN Political Ad CollectionThe C-SPAN Video Library also collects some political ads for Congressional and other political candidates. Content can be filtered by date or additional keywords/terms. Early 1990s forward.
- Stanford Political Communication LabArchived website that contains numerous campaign ads from presidential (2000-2016) and various California congressional and state elections (1994-2010). Since the site is archived, not all media may have been captured.
- The Living Room CandidateA collection of presidential campaign commercials from 1952-present, put together by the Museum of the Moving Image. Browse by year, by type of ad, and by issue. You can make your own ad by combining historical footage with your own images and audio.
- Political Advertising Resource Center (Univ. Maryland)Scholarly project has a collection of political ads and analyses related to federal elections, 2012-2016.
Image & Video News Content
- Internet Archive TV News Project (2009–)Building on the Vanderbilt TV News Archive, the Internet Archive collects and preserves TV news from U.S. national and cable networks, some international stations, and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. Search closed caption text and short, streamed clips (full broadcasts can be borrowed on DVD for a fee). The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Contains nearly 1.5 million broadcasts, including curated collections on Donald Trump, the Executive Branch, 9/11, and more. Their Third Eye project (2017-present) captures data on the chyrons (breaking news banners) that run on BBC News, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
- Stanford Cable TV AnalyzerPulling from the Internet Archive: TV Archive, this dataset includes nearly all daily recordings of CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC from January 1, 2010 on. Updates daily with a 1-2 day lag from original airing. Contains over 370,000 hours of both news and commercial segments. Project runs facial detection using Amazon's Celebrity recognition API and aligns captions to audio tracks to enable querying both screen time for individuals as well as the length of time various words are heard in segments. Advanced querying options, results can be aggregated by day/week/month/year, and graph images and plot data can be downloaded to .csv.
- Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) This link opens in a new windowIndex to the most extensive and complete archive of television news. Streamed video access to NBC and CNN content; other network content available for loan for a fee. Place loan requests through Interlibrary Loan; depending on costs, fees may be covered.
- GDELT Television ExplorerAllows you to visualize keyword trends in the Internet Archive's collection of American television news. The Television Explorer breaks results into individual sentences and counts how many of those sentences contain your keyword of interest. Results can be graphed or downloaded to CSV or JSON. See also their companion 2016 Campaign Television Tracker and 2016 Candidate Web Tracker
- AP Newsroom (includes AP Images Collection) This link opens in a new windowContains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP network of journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide.
- PressReader.com This link opens in a new windowProvides images of newspapers from around the world. Typically includes about 3 months.
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- New York Times, Wall St. Journal, LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune
- Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times (London)
Political Text as Data Corpora
- Congressional Record for the 43rd-114th Congresses: Parsed Speeches and Phrase Counts, 1873-2017Contains processed text from the bound and daily editions of the United States Congressional Record collected by Gentzkow et al. The bound edition covers the 43rd to 111th (1873–2011) Congresses, and the daily edition covers the 97th to 114th (1981–2017). Each edition includes all text spoken on the floor of each chamber of Congress. An automated script parses the text from each session to produce full-text speeches, metadata on speeches and their speakers, and counts of two-word phrases (bigrams) by speaker and party.
- Manifesto CorpusA multilingual and annotated collection of over 3000 electoral programs / manifestos from more than 60 different countries in almost 40 languages. Accessible in machine-readable formats, each manifesto is decomposed into quasi-sentences (nearly 2m) and coded according to the Manifesto Coding scheme of 56 substantive topics. The corpus also includes key metadata for each program, such as party name and election date. Many also include machine-readable English translation text. Data available via download, API, and R and Stata packages.
- ManifestobertaA set of models based on multilingual XLM-RoBERTa large models fine-tuned on more than 1.5 million annotated statements in the Manifesto Corpus. "They provide strong performance in classifying political texts, with the ability to categorize a wide range of political discourse into the categories of the rich manifesto project coding scheme and across various languages."
- CLARIN European Parliamentary CorporaProvides an annotated list of numerous European parliamentary corpora from the CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) EU open research project. Dozens of corpora covering more than 20 European countries and languages, mostly from 2000 forward, though a few go back decades or a century.
- ParlEE Plenary Speeches: 2009-2019ParlEE Plenary Speeches is a collection of 4 datasets contains the full-text speeches from 28 European parliaments covering 2009-2019. Each dataset provides the plenary speeches split to the sentence-level annotated with date, speaker, party, EU vs. domestic politics classification, and relevant policy area (using the Comparative Agendas Project coding scheme). Data in .csv.
- ParlaMint MultiLingual Parliamentary DebatesParlaMint is a multilingual corpora of parliamentary debates from 29 European countries and autonomous regions, 2015-2022. The corpora have been encoded using a harmonized schema allowing for comparability across the datasets and incorporate extensive metadata, including aspects of the parliament; the speakers (name, gender, MP status, party affiliation, party coalition/opposition); terms, sessions and meetings; and speaker roles (e.g. chair, regular speaker). The speeches also include mark-up indicating gaps in the transcription, interruptions, applause, etc. For additional info and resources, see the ParlaMint Project Website.
- ParlSpeech V2 DatasetContains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and (partially) agenda item under which a speech was held. Data in R format.
- MAPLE Parliamentary Datasets"Contains complete corpora of more than 2.5 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain," primarily 1999-2019. Includes information on date, speaker, party, and speaker's parliamentary role/position (when available) and "legislative instrument under which a speech was made." Data in R format.
- EUSpeech: A New Dataset of EU Elite SpeechesDataset of 17,184 speeches from EU leaders (i.e., heads of government in 10 member states, EU commissioners, party leaders in the European Parliament, and ECB and IMF leaders) from 2007 to 2015. These speeches vary in sentiment, topics and ideology, allowing for fine-grained, over-time comparison of representation in the EU. Data in R format.
- GerParCor: German Parliament CorpusGerman-speaking corpus of parliamentary protocols and debate text from three different centuries, on a national and federal level from the countries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 1797-2023. Pre-processed using various NLP methods. See the accompanying paper for more details. Individual sessions of data can be downloaded from https://gerparcor.texttechnologylab.org.
- Dataset of Dutch and Danish Party Congress Speeches (1946-2017)Speeches given by Danish and Dutch politicians at party congresses between 1946 and 2017. The dataset is an unique collection of materials from different party archives and digital repositories. It offers an unique opportunity to analyze the issues discussed in these speeches, the positions taken, and the rhetoric used by party elites over time and between-country. Data in R format.
- Australian Parliamentary Debates (1998-2022)Dataset on the proceedings from each sitting day in the Australian Parliament House of Representatives 1998-2022, parsed from the official XML files. Each row contains an individual statement with details on the individual speaking. Project also includes data on debate topics, Australian MPs, and electoral divisions (i.e., recorded votes). Data in both CSV and parquet forms.
- Lipad.ca: Canadian Hansard Debates Parsed, 1901-2019The entire corpus of the Canadian Hansard parsed into speeches and enriched with data on MPs, parties, and constituencies. Data available in Postgres SQL database.
- Norwegian Parliamentary Debates DatasetComprises approximately one million speeches from debates in the Norwegian Parliament 1945-2024. Includes information about speeches (full text, date of speech, and chamber), speakers’ status (parliamentary president, member of parliament, deputy member of parliament, or cabinet minister), as well as speaker background characteristics (party affiliation, committee membership, district affiliation, rank on electoral lists, gender, and birth year). Data in .csv.
- FOCUSDataCollected all English-language material published by Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran through their official media and foreign ministry websites. The dates and number of articles vary by source, but generally ~2010-2020. Sources include:
*China: Global Times, People’s Daily, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
*Iran: Islamic Republic News Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
*North Korea: Korean Central News Agency and Rodong Sinmun;
*Russia: Sputnik, Russia Today, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Contains headlines, date, and text, (sometimes author and URL). After collection, sentiment and topic analysis were conducted on the article's text for select databases. Both raw and analyzed content are included. Public visualization site available. - Duma Speeches: Russian State Duma Transcripts 1994–2021Contains more than 385,000 transcripts from speeches and oral contributions made in the Russian State Duma between 11 January 1994 and 17 June 2021 with frequency analysis of the terms used by the deputies in their Duma speeches. Also includes a database of Duma deputies and members of the Russian Federation Council since 1994.
- Russian Text as Data (TADAXIT)Project creating datasets and tools for studying post-Soviet text as data. Initial datasets include: All items published on the website of the Russian weekly magazine ‘Zavtra’ (1996-2023); and separate datasets for all items published on the Russian and English language versions of the Kremlin’s website (2000-2023).
- Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Campaign DiscourseContains transcripts of speeches, TV ads and debates of 12 US general election Presidential compaigns from 1952 though 1996. In .doc, .txt, and json formats.
