---
license: cc0-1.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: Main Street Independent Corpus
task_categories:
- text-generation
- text-classification
- summarization
tags:
- news
- journalism
- ai-generated
- cc0
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: news
    path: articles.jsonl
  - split: opinion
    path: columns.jsonl
---

# Main Street Independent Corpus

The complete [Main Street Independent](https://mainstreetindependent.com) archive as open data: **17,825 news articles** and **3,295 opinion columns**, each with full text and metadata. AI-generated news and opinion, dedicated to the public domain under **CC0** — no rights reserved. Refreshed daily.

## Load it

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("golfplan18/msi-corpus")            # 'news' and 'opinion' splits
print(ds["news"][0]["headline"], ds["news"][0]["text"][:200])
```

## Fields
`slug`, `url`, `headline`, `publish_date`, `section`, `primary_entities`, `primary_themes`, `topic_tags`, `license`, `text` (and `pen_name` for opinion columns).

## Also available
- Bulk Markdown + richer JSONL indexes (atomic claims, sources): https://github.com/Golfplan18/msi-corpus
- Natural-language search + MCP endpoint: https://mainstreetindependent.com/data

## License
[CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Public domain — use freely, no attribution required.