Context

Presenting a compendium of crowdsourced journalism from the psuedo news site The Examiner.

This dataset contains the headlines of 3.08 million Articles written by ~21000 authors over six years.

While the Examiner was never praised for its quality, it consistently churned out 1000s of articles per day over several years.

At their height in 2011, The Examiner was ranked highly in search results and had enormous shares on social media.
At a certain point, it was the tenth largest site on mobile and was attracting twenty million unique visitors a month.

As a platform driven towards advert revenue, most of their content was rushed, unsourced and factually sparse.
It still manages to paint a colourful picture about the trending topics over a long period of time.