 The World Health Organization, WHO, notifies the global community about disease outbreaks through the disease outbreak news. Dawn, these online reports tell important stories about both outbreaks themselves and high-level decision making that governs information sharing during public health emergencies. Here, we collate all 2,789 of these reports from their first use through the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, January 1996 to December 2019. This article was authored by Colin J. Croson, Matthew R. Boyce, Margaret Dunn, and others.