Random-integer sampling yields representative local news samples when pools are large.

Evidence

For each of the 31 states, we used random sampling to select 12 articles with the key terms by generating a list of random integers corresponding to the number of search results and selecting 12 of those integers. Typically, this search process returned hundreds of results from which to sample, although we encountered a few instances where results produced fewer than 12 articles. In these cases, we selected all available articles for the sample. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 44