GraphConnect 2020

Journalism is in crisis. Newspaper revenues have been falling while fake news is on the rise. To alleviate these problems, we propose a knowledge graph of entities and relationships from publicly available news sources, using an open dataset of over 23,000 Vox articles as a proof-of-concept. We believe that this work will significantly enable both journalists and consumers of news to keep track of large volumes of information in a non-siloed manner. News organizations will have access to a comprehensive content catalog that allows for collaboration between and within other organizations, as well as producing investigative journalism pieces at a lower cost. The public will benefit from having a platform that is widely available, easily searchable, comprehensive over time and space, and curated by trustworthy sources. Because we also believe that our initiative is of great benefit to the public, we are both open sourcing our efforts and actively encouraging others to collaborate with us and each other to bring this project forward.