Replication Data for: Mask Mandates, Misinformation, and Data Voids in Local News Coverage of COVID-19

This is replication data for the APSA preprint paper \"Mask Mandates, Misinformation, and Data Voids in Local News Coverage of COVID-19\" gathered from MediaCloud. The dataset contains .csvs for the media data analyzed for each of the sampled states. Data includes original datasets (some states have two - one dataset before a mask mandate, the other dataset for after the mandates) and cleaned datasets (with removed duplicates).