{"id":377,"date":"2021-12-08T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsdata.io\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:04:58","slug":"free-news-datasets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsdata.io\/blog\/free-news-datasets\/","title":{"rendered":"Free News Datasets Mega Compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” bottom_margin=”220″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” sticky_content=”true” sticky_content_functionality=”js” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][\/vc_column][vc_column right_padding_desktop=”40″ right_padding_tablet=”0″ right_padding_phone=”0″ top_margin=”-240″ top_margin_tablet=”-180″ top_margin_phone=”-130″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”text_block_wrapper” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3\/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”advanced” gradient_type=”default” offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-12″][image_with_animation image_url=”1197″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” margin_bottom=”20″][vc_column_text]The digital sources of news have prospered at a tremendous pace, from just a handful of digital news publications to numerous news sources and digital publications. It is because news publications now cover a wide range of issues and events, thus increasing their scope. These publications not just represent the world but also change and shape our perceptions about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Archiving news data is now commonplace due to the high demand for instant access to historical news data, for which people commonly use news API<\/a>. These news datasets can be great for research purposes, and for personal as well as for professional Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re looking for historical news data to feed your AI and ML algorithms then you can use these free news datasets<\/a> or the Newsdata.io tool that I am going to mention below. News datasets can help you find a wide range of historical stories related to any topic, organization, person, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post, we are going to discuss an easy and reliable way to get access to historical news datasets. Let\u2019s get right into it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before we dive into the compilation of free news datasets, let’s discuss a great tool to get relevant news datasets.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Download worldwide News data using Newsdata.io” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]It\u2019s really easy to download or get access to Newsdata.io<\/a>\u2019 News dataset, Search news with Keywords or categories and timeline, just follow these simple steps.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Go to <\/span>Newsdata.io<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Enter the keyword you want to search<\/li>\n
  3. Download the results in CSV and XLSX formats<\/li>\n
  4. If you need custom news datasets, fill out the <\/span>request news data form<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Once you have submitted the form, our team will get back to you with the pricing and dataset specifications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After some time, you\u2019ll receive your News dataset and details related to that.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Here are the top 40 news datasets that you can download for free for your AI, Machine learning and data analysis personal and professional projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

    1. Newsdata.io\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/newsdata.io\/files\/datasets\/covid19-news<\/a><\/p>\n

    This Covid-19 dataset contains the latest world news related to Coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    2. Kaggle.com<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> BBC News Classification (News article categorization)<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/c\/learn-ai-bbc<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    The dataset is broken into 1490 records for training and 735 for testing. The goal will be to build a system that can accurately classify previously unseen news articles into the right category.<\/span><\/p>\n

    3. BBC\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> BBC datasets<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>http:\/\/mlg.ucd.ie\/datasets\/bbc.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Two news article datasets, originating from BBC News, provided for use as benchmarks for machine learning research.<\/span><\/p>\n

    4. Harvard Dataverse<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> A Million News Headlines<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910\/DVN\/SYBGZL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This contains data of news headlines published over a period of eighteen years. Sourced from the reputable Australian news source ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/span><\/p>\n

    5. Newsdata.io<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 and vaccine news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/newsdata.io\/files\/datasets\/covid-vaccine-news<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    This contains data of latest published news headlines from across the web. News headlines with all the metadata and full description.<\/span><\/p>\n

    6. Webz.io<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Political news articles<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/webz.io\/free-datasets\/political-news-articles\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    This contains world politics related news article data fetch with the help of Webz.io news API.<\/span><\/p>\n

    7. Paperswithcode<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> COVID-19 Fake News Dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/paperswithcode.com\/dataset\/covid-19-fake-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Along with COVID-19 pandemic we are also fighting an `infodemic’. Fake news and rumors are rampant on social media. Believing in rumors can cause significant harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

    8. Kaggle<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> India News Headlines Dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/therohk\/india-headlines-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This news dataset is a persistent historical archive of noteable events in the Indian subcontinent from start-2001 to end-2020, recorded in real-time by the journalists of India. It contains approximately 3.4 million events published by Times of India.<\/span><\/p>\n

    9. Data.world<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Economic News Article Tone<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/data.world\/crowdflower\/economic-news-article-tone\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Contributors read snippets of news articles. They then noted if the article was relevant to the US economy and, if so, what the tone of the article was.<\/span><\/p>\n

    10. Archive.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> World Politics news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/world-politics-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains the latest news related to politics around the world with the available news article’s metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    11. Archive.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 News\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/covid-news_202110<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains the latest news related to Covid-19 from the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

    12. Archive.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Sports news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sports-news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains the latest news article related to world sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

    13. Zenodo.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> dataset for fake news detection<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/4561253<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains around 200k news headlines from the year 2012 to 2018 obtained from HuffPost. The model trained on this dataset could be used to identify tags for untracked news articles or to identify the type of language used in different news articles.<\/span><\/p>\n

    14. Archive.ics.uci.edu<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> News aggregator dataset\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.ics.uci.edu\/ml\/datasets\/News+Aggregator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    News are grouped into clusters that represent pages discussing the same news story. The dataset includes also references to web pages that, at the access time, pointed one of the news page in the collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

    15. Data.4tu.nl<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> fake news detection datasets<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong>https:\/\/data.4tu.nl\/articles\/dataset\/Repository_of_fake_news_detection_datasets\/14151755<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    The dataset contains a list of twenty-seven freely available evaluation datasets for fake news detection analysed according to eleven main characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n

    16. Ieee-dataport.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Fake News Inference Dataset\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/open-access\/fnid-fake-news-inference-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This database is provided for the Fake News Detection task. In addition to being used in other tasks of detecting fake news, it can be specifically used to detect fake news using the Natural Language Inference (NLI).<\/span><\/p>\n

    17. Hugging Face<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> AG News<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/ag_news<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    AG is a collection of more than 1 million news articles. News articles have been gathered from more than 2000 news sources by ComeToMyHead in more than 1 year of activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    18. Data.gov.uk<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> News consumption in the UK<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong>https:\/\/data.gov.uk\/dataset\/4166149f-f10f-4f60-8174-ad30ba99fa86\/news-consumption-in-the-uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    The findings are published as part of our range of market research publications that examine people\u2019s consumption of, and attitudes towards, different types of content on different platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    19. Kaggle<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/allen-institute-for-ai\/CORD-19-research-challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House and a coalition of leading research groups have prepared the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19).<\/span><\/p>\n

    20. Archive.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Health news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/health-news_202110<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This contains all the latest news article related to world health.<\/span><\/p>\n

    21. Newsdata.io<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> World politics news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/newsdata.io\/files\/datasets\/world-politics-news<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains the latest news related to politics around the world with the available news article’s metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    22. Archive.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Latest news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/latest-news_202110<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains the latest news around the world with the available news article’s metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    23. Kaggle\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Health news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/newsdataio\/health-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains all the latest news related to health news from around the world with all the metadata available.<\/span><\/p>\n

    24. Kaggle\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 and vaccine news dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/newsdataio\/covid19-and-vaccine-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains all the latest news related to Covid-19 and vaccine from around the world with all the available metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    25. Ieee-dataport.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> FAKE NEWS ON COVID19<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/covifn-fake-news-covid19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    COVIFN is a CoVID-19-specific dataset that consists of fact-checked fake news scraped from Poynter and true news from news publishers’ verified portals. The dataset was pre-processed, the removal of special characters and non-vital information is performed.<\/span><\/p>\n

    26. Data.mendeley<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Event Detection Dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link-<\/strong> https:\/\/data.mendeley.com\/datasets\/7d54rvzxkr\/1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    The present is a manually labeled data set for the task of Event Detection (ED). The task of ED consists of identifying event triggers, the word that most clearly indicates the occurrence of an event.<\/span><\/p>\n

    27. Figshare.com<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Fake and True News Dataset<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/dataset\/Fake_and_True_News_Dataset\/13325198<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    In this dataset have to part combined namely fake news and true news. fake news collected from Kaggle and some true news collected form IEEE Data port.<\/span><\/p>\n

    28. Kaggle<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Online News Popularity Data Set<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/aahaan007\/online-news-popularity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset summarizes a heterogeneous set of features about articles published by Mashable in a period of two years. The goal is to predict the number of shares in social networks.<\/span><\/p>\n

    29. Getdata.io<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> News Headlines<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/getdata.io\/data-sources\/95591-news-google-com-news-headlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Getdata.io monitors the news headline from this website which we then use to train our sentiment analysis engine to detect bad news about publicly traded companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

    30. Refinitiv<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Reuters Top News<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.refinitiv.com\/en\/financial-data\/financial-news-coverage\/political-news-feeds-analysis\/reuters-top-news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Read the biggest business and political stories from around the world with Reuters Top News, providing a customized experience in an easy-to-use format.<\/span><\/p>\n

    31. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 and vaccine\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/covid-19-and-vaccine-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains world news related to Covid-19 and vaccine and also with the news article’s available metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    32. IEEE.org<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> World politics news\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/world-politics-news-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains world news related to politics and also with the news article’s available metadata.<\/span><\/p>\n

    33. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Covid-19 news<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/covid-19-news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    This dataset contains all\u00a0 the latest news data related to Covid-19 from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

    34. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> COVIFN : FAKE NEWS ON COVID19<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/covifn-fake-news-covid19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    COVIFN is a CoVID-19-specific dataset that consists of fact-checked fake news scraped from Poynter and true news from news publishers’ verified portals. The dataset was pre-processed, the removal of special characters and non-vital information is performed.<\/span><\/p>\n

    35. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> FAKE NEWS ON HEALTHCARE<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/fake-news-healthcare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    The Internet is a vast repository of useful knowledge, but it has been contaminated by the spread of false information. Relying on misinformation can be disastrous. According to a World Health Organization survey, about 6,000 individuals were hospitalised throughout the world as a result of fake news on COVID-19 in the first three months of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

    36. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> NEWS CREDIBILITY DATASET<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/news-credibility-dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Features of each news according to seven credibility categories<\/span><\/p>\n

    37. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> AI-Based automated extraction of entities, entity categories and sentiment on Covid-19 situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/ai-based-automated-extraction-entities-entity-categories-and-sentiments-covid-19-situation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) based in-depth analysis of social media content would allow a strategic decision maker to obtain evidence-based responses on complex queries<\/span><\/p>\n

    38. Kaggle<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Reddit Omicron Panic<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/yamqwe\/reddit-omicron-panic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    As we all know, a new variant of COVID-19 is spreading worldwide causing massive panic. This dataset captures mentions of the new variant on reddit.<\/span><\/p>\n

    39. Kaggle<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Omicron daily cases by country (COVID-19 variant)<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/yamqwe\/omicron-covid19-variant-daily-cases<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Tracking the progression of the new omicron COVID-19 variant<\/span><\/p>\n

    40. IEEE.org\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Name-<\/strong> Daily report of Covid-19 confirmed cases in Thailand.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Link- <\/strong>https:\/\/ieee-dataport.org\/documents\/daily-report-covid-19-confirmed-cases-thailand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    A dataset contains a total of 578,375 COVID-19 confirmed cases reported in Thailand that were being recorded between 22 January 2021 to 30 July 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Get customized news datasets with Newsdata.io<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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    Newsdata.io<\/a> is a paid news data compiling tool that allows you to download custom news datasets related to. You can search for relevant news from a repository consisting of news compiled over the past 7 years and from 85000+ news sources.<\/p>\n