Collection 3: U.S. News Media, c. 1989-2019

A collection of word-frequency and other data representing 108,207 unique articles mentioning “humanities” or “the arts” (no duplicate or close-variant documents) published mostly during 1989-2019 in 1,170 U.S. news sources and their associated blogs. (5,308 articles originate from earlier years going back to 1977.) WE1S and other researchers use this data to look for broad patterns and to help guide closer study.

The United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations often use the phrase “the arts” to refer to what the U.S. more commonly calls “the humanities and arts.” (See the WE1S report by Alan Liu on “How Public Media in the US and UK Compare in Their Terminology For the Humanities.”)

The top 20 news sources (ordered by number of articles in descending order) are: New York Times, Washington Post, Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City), Houston Chronicle, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock), Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chicago Tribune, Newsday (New York), Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), Federal News Service, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey), Boston Globe, Stanford Daily (Stanford University), Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), Hartford Courant (Connecticut). (Full sources and counts are available as a csv file in the Collection Dataset.)

Kinds of Sources (by Tags)

Sources in Collection 3 are tagged (through metadata) as associated with categories that include those listed on the Metadata Tags for WE1S Document Sources page. (Sources are assigned to categories based solely on explicit publication information and/or self-identification.)