codeforboston / maple

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.
https://mapletestimony.org
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Add Media mentions #847

Open mvictor55 opened 1 year ago

mvictor55 commented 1 year ago

For each bill, capture all media mentions. Note: 99% of bills will not have any media mentions.

Media sources be newspapers, online magazines, or websites of public news outlets (ie. WGBH radio) - include: Boston Globe; Boston Herald; Commonwealth Magazine; Newton Tab; WGBH.org Additional media sources - https://muckrack.com/rankings/top-30-Massachusetts-newspapers

Here is a WGBH article that mentions a bill, S.2545: https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2021/10/06/mass-senate-passes-bill-to-make-voting-reforms-permanent

Each bill (that has media coverage) should be associated with each media url.

Would also be very interesting to scrape law firm websites. Ie. https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2826/2022-06-02-massachusetts-information-security-and-privacy-act-sent