Creating a corpus of online news

[pasmod]

Hi,

I want to create a corpus which contains news articles from online media line BBC, ...What I want to to have an .xml or excel file in which the plain text of the news and also the topic of the news article (Sport, Politics, ...) is contained.

Could anybody give me some advice on doing this task?

[editor]

check GDELT database: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, which is an amazing tool for data journalists.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/04/gdelt-global-data-on-events-location-tone.html

[pasmod]

[quote="editor"]check GDELT database: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, which is an amazing tool for data journalists.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2013/04/gdelt-global-data-on-events-location-tone.html[/quote]
Thank you for your help :-)