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Media Cloud
Open-source academic media research platform tracking 50-60K+ news sources with 1B+ story archive.
Founded 2011Distributed (UMass Amherst, Northeastern, MEAG)Consortium
Coverage
- Geo Coverage
- global
- Sources
- 50-60K+
- Content Types
- digital news articles
Data & Delivery
Full text articles
Article summaries
Headline only
Real-time
Historical data
Webhooks
Streaming
Article summaries
Headline only
Real-time
Historical data
Webhooks
Streaming
Delivery Methods
API
Data Formats
CSVJSON
NLP & Enrichment
Sentiment analysis
Entity extraction
Entity disambiguation
Story clustering
Deduplication
Topic classification
Publisher ranking
Entity extraction
Entity disambiguation
Story clustering
Deduplication
Topic classification
Publisher ranking
Developer Experience
Free API tier
MCP server
MCP server
Pricing
- Model
- free
- Free Tier
- Everything free, open source (Apache-2.0)
Company
- Parent Company
- Consortium
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Distributed (UMass Amherst, Northeastern, MEAG)
About Media Cloud
Media Cloud is a consortium project (UMass Amherst, Northeastern, MEAG) that tracks 50-60K+ news sources across 100+ countries in 20+ languages, with a continuously updated archive of 1B+ stories. Fully open source under Apache-2.0.
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