The Webis-News-Bias-20 dataset is an a corpus with 6964 news articles, each of which is labeled for its topic, political bias, and unfairness.

This is the dataset used in the paper "Analyzing Political Bias and Unfairness in News Articles at Different Levels of Granularity."

The news articles are stored in json format, one news each line. For each news, there are following fields:

- title: the title of the news
- content: the content of the news
- source: the news portal
- allsides_bias: the bias indicated in the allsides.com (left, center, or right)
- misc: other information, such as author, date, and topics
- adfontes_fair: the labels from adfontesmedia.com, whehter the article is fair or not (bias, neutral, or unknown)
- adfontes_political: the labels from adfontesmedia.com, whether the article is political bias or not (bias, neutral, or unknown)
- event_id: the event id. Articles with the same event have the same id

In December 2023, the news website with the most monthly visits in the United States was the New York Times' website, with a total of 464.4 million monthly visits to nytimes.com in that month. In second place was cnn.com with close to 375 million visits, followed by foxnews.com with just over 260 million.

Online news consumption in the U.S.

Americans get their news in a variety of ways, but social media is an increasingly popular option. A survey on social media news consumption revealed that 55 percent of Twitter users regularly used the site for news, and Facebook and Reddit were also popular for news among their users. Interestingly though, social media is the least trusted news sources in the United States.

News and trust

Trust in news sources has become increasingly important to the American news consumer amidst the spread of fake news, and the public are more vocal about whether or not they have faith in a source to report news correctly. Ongoing discussions about the credibility, accuracy and bias of news networks, anchors, TV show hosts, and news media professionals mean that those looking to keep up to date tend to be more cautious than ever before. In general, news audiences are skeptical. In 2020, just nine percent of respondents to a survey investigating the perceived objectivity of the mass media reported having a great deal of trust in the media to report news fully, accurately, and fairly.