In this study, we used the Platform for Automated extraction of Disease Information from the web (PADI-Web) as an epidemic intelligence tool to detect West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak signals, and epidemiological information throughout Europe from 2006 to 2021 in online news reports. The purpose of this study is to characterise epidemiological information on an outbreak event (such as: location and date of the event, diseased host, implicated vector and covariate risk factors) found in media reports. This descriptive analysis will allow us to explore the role of media reports and how they can help map disease occurence and predictions in complement with traditional indicator based surveillance.