The new TRC2 corpus comprises 1,800,370 news stories covering the period from 2008-01-01 00:00:03 to 2009-02-28 23:54:14 or 2,871,075,221 bytes, and is initially made available to participants of the blog track at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), to supplement the BLOG08 corpus (that contains results of a large blog crawl carried out at the University of Glasgow), which is the main corpus used at the TREC Blog Track.