NewsTalk

is an ongoing collection of public user commentary on Australian news stories, consisting of:

user comments posted directly on Australian news websites (site comments), and
Reddit comments linking to stories on Australian news websites.

The collection began in November 2022 and has, as of March 2024, accumulated over 2 million comments, half as site comments and half as Reddit comments. Eighteen (18) Australian news websites and mastheads are being monitored, including:

ABC News
Australian Community Media
Crikey
Echo Media
Independent Australia
Kotaku AU
MSN News
MamaMia
News.com.au
Nine Media
Perth Now
SBS News
Sky News Australia
The Conversation
The Guardian
The New Daily
The Saturday Paper
iTnews

NewsTalk is a database of reader commentary on news stories from major Australian news websites.  Content of news stories is unavailable through NewsTalk, only the comments left on or linking to those stories. 

The comments are accessible to researchers with prior ethics approval, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC) license.  Source code for the database and web app used to retrieve comments is proprietary and not covered under the license. 

iOwnership of the comment texts is retained by the original authors.