GDELT"GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created. [GDELT] monitors the world's news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day and that stretches back to January 1, 1979 through present day, with daily updates."
The entire GDELT database is 100% free and open and you can download the raw datafiles, visualize it using the GDELT Analysis Service, or analyze it at limitless scale with Google BigQuery.