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Fox News vs NBC News headlines (CIS 4190/5190 Spring 2026) A binary text-classification corpus of 5,225 news headlines, scraped from FoxNews.com and NBCNews.com. Schema Column Type Description headline string The article headline (suffixes like " source string FoxNews or NBC. publish_date string ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) from the article's structured metadata. year int Year extracted from publish_date. url string Source article URL. source_split… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Petrvsky/cis5190-fox-vs-nbc.

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Fox News vs NBC News headlines (CIS 4190/5190 Spring 2026)

A binary text-classification corpus of 5,225 news headlines, scraped from FoxNews.com and NBCNews.com.

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
headlinestringThe article headline (suffixes like "Fox News" stripped).
sourcestringFoxNews or NBC.
publish_datestringISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) from the article's structured metadata.
yearintYear extracted from publish_date.
urlstringSource article URL.
source_splitstringWhich scrape this row came from (provenance).

Splits

  • —random: stratified 80/10/10 train/val/test on source (seed=42).
  • —temporal: train ≤ 2022, val = 2023, test ≥ 2024 - used for our temporal-robustness analysis.

Class balance & date span

  • —Sources: ~52.5% FoxNews / ~47.5% NBC.
  • —Date range: 2019-06 to 2026-04.

Cleaning

Site suffixes stripped, Unicode-normalised, deduplicated by lowercased exact match, filtered to headlines in [10, 300] chars, leakage filter for any remaining mention of "Fox News" / "NBC News" in the headline body.

Citation

Collected for the CIS 4190/5190 Applied Machine Learning final project, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2026.