Dataset on Information Sources in Local Digital Journalism in the Coquimbo Region, Chile: News Items and Source-Level Records from Five Online Outlets, September–December 2021
Description
This dataset contains coded information on news items and information sources in local digital journalism from the Coquimbo Region, Chile. The corpus includes 7,044 valid online news items published between 1 September and 31 December 2021 by five digital outlets: Diario El Día, Diario La Región de Coquimbo, Mi Radio, Radio Guayacán, and El Observatodo. The dataset includes a news-level table and a source-level long-format table with 12,354 coded source records. Variables describe media outlet, publication date, headline, topic, geographic scope, website section, recorded number of sources, hyperlinks, comments, URLs, source position, source name or role, and source category. The dataset can be reused for research on source diversity, media pluralism, local journalism, institutional visibility, thematic coverage, and comparative digital journalism in Chile and Latin America.