Data through 01/31/2021

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and January 2021. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).

Data through 03/31/2020

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and March 2020. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).

Data through 12/31/19

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and December 2019. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).

Data through 11/30/19

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and November 2019. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).

Data through 10/31/19

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and October 2019. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).

Data through 9/30/19

This is an annotated dataset of news article URLs that potentially contain reports about protest events in the United States between January 2017 and September 2019. These URLs were collected (1) automatically, via a crawler that searched local news and metro section homepages for the protest stem words “rally,” “march,” “protest,” or “demonstration;” and (2) manually, via web searches for known missing reports (such as missing news articles about planned protests as part of a national march).