CNN Program Headlines, 1992–2022
This repository contains a collection of program titles and headlines for news programs of the Cable News Network (CNN), complete between January 1, 1992 and the most recent update on May 10, 2022. For the full transcribed text of the programs whose titles are indexed here, see CNN's website (for programs aired after April 4, 2001) or LexisNexis (for programs before that date).
This dataset consists of two large files. cnn_full_combined.tsv contains the titles of 478,177 programs and their respective airdates. Many of these program titles contain several distinct news headlines separated by semicolons, indicating that several different stories were covered on that program. This practice became significantly more common in March 2004, leading to a dramatic reduction in the quantity of data. cnn_full_separated.tsv contains 1,068,713 headlines, with the aforementioned program titles split up into distinct rows of data for each headline they contain, for greater comparability across the March 2004 boundary.
The dataset is a useful resource for studying how CNN has covered events over the course of three decades, and can be used as a rough proxy for general public awareness of current events in the United States.