JournalistLabs publishes research reports on journalists, newsroom job titles and beats, counted from its journalist database, with the data behind each report.

This repository holds copies of the datasets published on https://journalistlabs.com. Each folder under data/ matches one research post.

Dataset	Rows	What it counts	Research post	CSV
britain-19-royal-journalists-2-cybersecurity-reporters	185	Royal and cybersecurity job titles in newsroom staff records (rows collected 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-15)	Britain has 19 royal journalists on file and 2 cybersecurity reporters	beat_title_counts.csv cybersecurity_reconciliation.csv top50_newsrooms_cyber.csv uk_country_outlets_royal_cyber_tech.csv uk_royal_titles.csv uk_security_titles.csv uk_top_outlets_royal_cyber_tech.csv world_cybersecurity_titles.csv
business-insider-47-percent-of-newsroom-titles-carry-a-rank-word	1,984	Rank words in newsroom job titles, 194 outlets with 100+ editorial rows (rows collected 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-15)	47% of Business Insider newsroom titles carry a rank word. Sveriges Radio: 1%	bottom20_language_check.csv common_titles_four_outlets.csv outlets_100plus_rank_share.csv outlets_ranked_194.csv rank_share_by_country.csv rank_share_by_type_and_role.csv rank_word_breakdown_top_bottom.csv title_frequency.csv
journalism-has-63-ai-job-titles-on-file-biggest-desk-bbc-five	286	AI in newsroom job titles (2026-09-15 pull)	Journalism has 63 AI job titles on file. The biggest desk is the BBC's five	ai_by_country.csv ai_desk_ranking.csv ai_titles.csv beat_title_counts.csv newsquest_domains.csv top50_newsrooms_ai.csv
nyt-two-editors-per-reporter-bbc-two-reporters-per-editor	164	Editors per reporter at the 40 largest newsrooms on file (rows collected 2026-07-22 to 2026-09-15)	The NYT lists 1.8 editors per reporter. The BBC lists 1.9 reporters per editor.	editors_per_reporter_by_type_and_country.csv nyt_bbc_by_domain.csv nyt_bbc_role_mix.csv outlets_top40_editors_per_reporter.csv wire_vs_newspaper_correspondents.csv

Rows are summed over the CSV files in a dataset. Each dataset folder from the site carries its own README.md (columns) and METHOD.md (how it was counted).

Load it

The journalistlabs Python package fetches each CSV from https://journalistlabs.com. It uses only the standard library; pandas is used if installed.

# pip install journalistlabs
import journalistlabs

journalistlabs.list_datasets()
journalistlabs.files("britain-19-royal-journalists-2-cybersecurity-reporters")
rows = journalistlabs.load("britain-19-royal-journalists-2-cybersecurity-reporters", file="beat_title_counts.csv")  # list of dicts
df = journalistlabs.load("britain-19-royal-journalists-2-cybersecurity-reporters", file="beat_title_counts.csv", as_frame=True)  # pandas DataFrame

Or read the copy in this repository with pandas:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/journalistlabs/journalistlabs-data/main/data/britain-19-royal-journalists-2-cybersecurity-reporters/beat_title_counts.csv")

Citation

JournalistLabs (2026). JournalistLabs research datasets. https://journalistlabs.com. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Cite the research post when you use one dataset. CITATION.cff holds the same details.

License

Data in data/: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Credit JournalistLabs and link to https://journalistlabs.com.

Code in src/ and tests/: MIT.

Both texts are in LICENSE.