Beyond Headlines: A Corpus of Femicides News Coverage in Italian Newspapers

How newspapers cover news significantly impacts how facts are understood, perceived, and processed by the public. This is especially crucial when serious crimes are reported, e.g., in the case of femicides, where the description of the perpetrator and the victim builds a strong, often polarized opinion of this severe societal issue. This paper presents FMNews, a new dataset of articles reporting femicides extracted from Italian newspapers. Our core contribution aims to promote the development of a deeper framing and awareness of the phenomenon through an original resource available and accessible to the research community, facilitating further analyses on the topic. The paper also provides a preliminary study of the resulting collection through several example use cases and scenarios.