I want to explore 10-15 years of media coverage data for several countries (including the US, UK, Germany, and several other countries). I'm mostly interested in the number of newspaper articles that mention certain keywords. LexisNexis is one option, but the database does not seem to include several high-profile newspapers for the time-period I'm interested in (2000-2017).
I'd be happy to hear your suggestions!
Thanks, Robert.
Maybe my question was misleading - I'm looking for tools/databases to gather media coverage data across countries. As far as I see it, NVivo is a tool mainly for analyzing pre-existing data, not for gathering data - but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I might also be missing the point of your question, but . . .
(1) As far as 'databases,' when I analysed print media across the major newspapers in Japan versus the regional and local newspapers, I found that using the database for each newspaper separately to locate content and then creating my own database from these was the best approach. For most of these newspapers, you could access the website databases either free or from an institutional site such as a library.
(2) Regarding cross national analysis - in your attempt to create comparative data - I would suggest Doing News Framing Analysis - Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives, by D'Angelo and Kuypers. I used this in the work alluded to above to create comparability across very different form and scale of print media.
For my own research I ended up writing a news scraper myself and storing it in a database. It's a little effort, but still feasable without much programming skills. You can use Python with Scrapy. I wrote the results to a MySQL db and covered full online archives of some major UK newspapers. Still performed pretty good.
Thanks, Anthony and Iris!
Newspaper archives work quite well. For the few cases that I started to work on I also ended up on the individual newspaper archives via institutional access - but for a larger number of newspapers the approach suggested by Iris might be a good approach (I hope I can get this to work). Thanks for the reference Anthony, that's very helpful.
did you try FACTIVA.com this is, I guess, the main competitor or Lexis
Do you have access to NewsBank? I have found this very beneficial to my research involving newspapers across several countries.
These sources can competitors indeed. I have found it useful to use them all to complement what others may be missing. Access World News, I believe, is the same as NewsBank, yet just in case let me add its name here as well.
Before FBIS was a reliable source for non-English newspapers; now that has become Federal News Service and am not sure if it still covers.
Dear Patrick,
As Henning does, I also frequently resort to LexisNexis and Factiva as the broadest aggregator sources (be cautious with group files, though, composition changes over time).
Not sure whether they are still in this market, but GaleCengage also sold various newspaper archive solutions to academic libraries. All three make batch downloading artifically thorny, however, and react allergically to frequently repeated search queries (be cautious with scraping!).
Dependig on what exactly you want to do, linguists might offer helpful ressources as their development of language reference corpora often also makes use of major newspapers (German example: http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/kl/projekte/korpora/)
Finally the NCCR Democracy in Zurich has built up quite a database on European newspapers but I am not sure about pre-selection and whether this is in the public domain...
Dear Patrick,
just a minor addition to the access of German newspapers: There is a German press catalog at the University of Bremen with further information which might be of relevance for your project/idea - see: http://www.suub.uni-bremen.de/home-english/our-sites/central-library/microfilm-archive/ (even though, the data extraction might be more difficult, but, maybe, is it worth trying it)
Perhaps, if you contact the responsible person at the library, they can give you further advice on the data collection for other countries, newspapers, etc.
Good luck with your project!
Dear Christian and Stefan,
Thanks for your additional recommendations - those are very helpful indeed!
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