Newspaper (or TV program or events from a city) are often published as rss feeds and are dumped in the rss_posts table. You can ask simple question like “Was my Organization mentioned reasonly?” or “How often is the keyword used”. (technical preview, dynamic data update will be implemented this year)
Gdelt GKG 2.1 Cheat Sheet
I copy a part of the gdelt dataset to a local mysql database. The field definition is the same as in the original dataset. Below a short field description of the Gdelt table gkg v 2.1 (taken from the original paper). Not every column is copied in the local mysql table, note field InDatacoll: 1 = yes, 0 = no. Currently i have no regular updates for this table. I plan to have the last 3 weeks accessible.
GKGRECORDID used as primary key and for monthly partitioning.