Clarify: you want to analyze newspaper data? Or you want to do a machine learning project that would make a good newspaper article? Or you want to write a how-to ML article that fits into your newspaper?

Option A. I work for a newspaper and I am looking for ideas about what do to with the data. Thanks for asking! :)

How about this. A crossword puzzle generator. The user enters a keyword, a person's name, or a date, and your program generates themes, words, and clues associated with that prompt in the newspaper archives. So for example, if I enter the keyword "Trump", your algorithm does some word-association magic (I'm not big on the terminology when it comes to text data) and comes up with a bunch of words and clues drawn from your paper's archive of writing about Mr. Trump...