pretty_name: State Run Media
license: apache-2.0
State Run Media
Description
This dataset consists of state-run media websites from around the world. It is sourced from the State Media Monitor (SMM) website. Here, we provide an easy way to programmatically download all of the data.
Dataset details
The dataset includes the following fields:
- Country
- Media company
- Main assets
- Typology 2022
- Typology 2023
- Typology 2024
- Region
- Subregion
The Typology fields are re-classified every year. The possible values are -- SC: State Controlled Media; CaPu: Captured Public/State Managed Media; CaPr: Captured Private Media; ISFM: Independent State Funded and State Managed Media; ISF: Independent State Funded Media; ISM: Independent State Managed Media; IP: Independent Public Media.
See the Typology page of SMM for more dtails.
There are 603 rows total.
Sample rows
| Country | Media company | Main assets | Typology 2022 | Typology 2023 | Typology 2024 | Region | Subregion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States of America | Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | Television: PBS member stations (350) | IP | IP | IP | North America | North America |
| France | France Télévisions | Television: France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, 1ère, Culturebox, France Info | ISM | ISFM | ISFM | Europe | Western and Northern Europe |
URLs for sources
We do not publish the URLs by default to the media outlets, to avoid generating extra traffic to them. Please contact us, at the below email, if you would like to obtain the URLs for research purposes only. Here is a sample of the format:
{
"United States": [
{
"Media company": "U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)",
"Typology 2024": "ISFM",
"URL_dict": {
"Voice of America": "https://www.voanews.com/",
"Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty": "https://www.rferl.org/"
}
},
],
"France": [
{
"Media company": "France Télévisions",
"Typology 2024": "ISFM",
"URL_dict": {
"France 2": "https://www.france.tv/france-2/",
"France Info": "https://www.francetvinfo.fr/"
}
}
]
}
License
All rights are reserved to the original creators of the State Media Monitor site, the Media and Journalism Research Center. They have kindly allowed us to distribute this data (please cite them, and optionally, us!), and we do so with an Apache 2.0 license.
Contact
For this dataset: bryanli [at] seas.upenn.edu