# 3DLNews: A Three-decade Dataset of US Local News Articles

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04716 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04716/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Identifying the Geographic Foci of US Local News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.00787/) (2026)
- [UNSPECIFIC: General Constraint Synthesis for Breaking Copy-and-Paste Shortcut in LLM Instruction Following](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.09154/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present 3DLNews, a novel dataset with local news articles from the United States spanning the period from 1996 to 2024. It contains almost 1 million URLs (with HTML text) from over 14,000 local newspapers, TV, and radio stations across all 50 states, and provides a broad snapshot of the US local news landscape. The dataset was collected by scraping Google and Twitter search results. We employed a multi-step filtering process to remove non-news article links and enriched the dataset with metadata such as the names and geo-coordinates of the source news media organizations, article publication dates, etc. Furthermore, we demonstrated the utility of 3DLNews by outlining four applications.