Table 4 Summary of existing classifications of local and national news outlets.
From: DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
Dataset | Local | National | All | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cronin et al.62 | 1,390 | 276 | 1,666 | Cronin et al. present a manually coded list of news outlets categorized as local, national, or international. We exclude international news sources from our study. |
Fischer et al.63 | 6,455 | 511 | 6,966 | Fischer et al. offer a classification of news domains into categories such as local, regional, national, international, and technical. Their labels are derived from multiple sources, including Yin et al. and manual annotation. For our analysis, we retain only the local and national domains. The authors do not provide specific criteria to distinguish regional from local categories and often combine them in their analysis. Therefore, we treat all regional domains as local in our study. |
Horne et al.64 | 284 | 0 | 284 | Horne et al. compile a list of local news domains sourced from 50states.com/news. |
Yin et al.65 | 6,493 | 0 | 6,493 | Yin et al. compile a list of local news outlets. The list is assembled from multiple sources, such as usnpl.com and stationindex.com. |
abyz | 10,124 | 290 | 10,414 | abyznewslinks.com provides a list of newspapers and news media in the U.S., classifying them as either local or national. We obtained the data from its website. |
