Excel download listing 4,677 articles (with links to full text of each article) returned as a result of searching the Australia & New Zealand Newsstream database on 13 April 2021 for newspaper articles published in 2020 mentioning both mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic (full search criteria and search terms detailed in the spreadsheet). Also included are details of exclusion criteria, and details of articles excluded and included in final data set (final data set = 436 articles).