Newsela Corpus Access for Researchers

Newsela provides a collection of leveled articles for researchers studying text simplification and other related areas.

Last Updated: September 2025

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‍How to Request Access:

1. Fill out this form.

Important: Currently, we only grant access to academically-affiliated researchers whose projects are likely to lead to a publication.

2. The Newsela Research team will respond with a decision within two weeks of your submission.
3. If your project meets our requirements, you'll be asked to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to ensure proper use of the corpus.
4. Once the NDA has been signed by both parties, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access the corpus. 

How to Cite the Corpus:

Newsela, Inc. (2016). Newsela Article Corpus. [Data set] https://newsela.com/legal/data