How to measure news coverage of one story over time

Updated 2026-11-10 · Data and API builders · by CyberMax

Short answer

To measure coverage of one story, collect matching headlines with dates and sources, count them per day and per outlet, and keep the links so every number can be checked. The Superintelligence News dataset does this for one story: load "daily" to chart it and "headlines" to read the coverage.

pip install datasets
Load "daily" for counts per day.
Load "headlines" and "sources" to see who covered it.
Cite headline links, not just counts.

Copy-paste code

Data: CyberMax dataset on Hugging Face; load it with the datasets library (pip install datasets)

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("CyberMax-tools/superintelligence-ban-bill-coverage", "daily", split="train")
df = ds.to_pandas()
print(len(df), "rows")
print(df.head())

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