task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- en
pretty_name: News
News
Description
We scrape the news sites that publish content under CC BY or CC BY-SA according to opennewswire.
These include 360info, Africa is a Country,
Alt News,
Balkan Diskurs,
Factly,
Freedom of the Press Foundation,
Agenzia Fides,
Global Voices,
Meduza,
Mekong Eye,
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service,
Minority Africa,
New Canadian Media,
SciDev.Net,
The Solutions Journalism Exchange,
Tasnim News Agency,
ZimFact,
Oxpeckers,
Propastop,
and The Public Record.
Plain text was extracted from the HTML using a custom pipeline, including extraction of the title and byline to include at the beginning of each article.
Per-document license information is available in the license entry of the metadata field of each example.
Code for collecting, processing, and preparing this dataset is available in the common-pile GitHub repo.
Dataset Statistics
| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
|---|---|
| 126,673 | 0.3 |
License Issues
While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.
Other Versions
This is the "filtered" version of the News dataset. If you are looking for the raw version, you can find it here.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}