Author: Kalev Leetaru
Building A Story Index Of A Decade Of TV Evening News With Geocoding, Sentiment, Frame & Narrative Analysis In 1 Hour For $154
Journalism is fundamentally about reporting stories. Digital and print journalism organizes stories into discrete "articles", making it easy to find…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Tracking Evolving Stories Over Time Using Gemini As A Deep Neural Clustering Engine
The last few days we've demonstrated how Gemini 2.5 Flash is able to not only segment television news broadcasts into…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Framing, Narrative Structure & Context Analysis
Earlier today we showcased how Gemini 2.5 Flash makes it possible to trivially add advanced analytic capabilities like sentiment analysis…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Sentiment & Rich Emotional Assessment To Stories
Continuing our series on story segmentation from television news, thus far we have tested Gemini 2.5 Pro's ability to compile…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Assessing Robustness Of Computed Story Metadata Over A Decade
Yesterday we demonstrated the remarkable consistency of Gemini 2.5 Flash's segmentation of television evening news broadcasts into stories and computing…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Assessing Consistency Of Computed Story Metadata Across Runs
Building on yesterday's advances in story segmentation of television news, how consistent are the extracted keywords, topics, locations and entities…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Entities, Topics, Keywords, Names & Mappable Locations To Each Story
Last month we demonstrated Gemini 2.5's remarkable leap in story segmentation of television news. Unlike print and online news coverage,…
Gemini As Indiana Jones: Joan Of Arc, The Temple Of Solomon, Illuminations & Assessing & Translating Historical Manuscripts
Given my PhD in library and information science, I am personally fascinated by the history of how societies across the…
Global Diplomatic Forum's 21st Young Diplomats Forum: Digital Diplomacy in the Age of AI
It was an honor to speak today at the Global Diplomatic Forum's 21st Young Diplomats Forum alongside Christopher Painter and…
Behind The Scenes: Using The GCS Byte Range Selector To Reduce 500TB Of Network Bandwidth To 700GB
We have an inventory of around 500TB of TAR files containing 1fps frame samples of all 7 million television news…
How Television News Story Segmentation Could Be Used To Help Citizens Connect With Their Local Governments
Local municipalities all across the United States hold a range of meetings, debates, hearings, press conferences, public comment opportunities and…
Prosperity and Posturing: New research uncovers domestic drivers of international aggression
"New research by Dr Ashani Amarasinghe, from the University of Sydney School of Economics, sheds light on how governments use…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Testing On Evening News Broadcasts From A Decade & A Half Ago
Our new television news story segmentation workflow has demonstrated remarkably accurate results in our tests thus far, matching and even…
Using Gemini 2.5's Structured Outputs To Enforce Consistent Stable JSON Output For Story Segmentation
One key challenge with our new Gemini 2.5-based television news story segmentation initiative has lain in coaxing Gemini to produce…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Segmenting A Week Of Evening TV News Into Stories & Adding Links To Each Clip
Earlier this week we showcased how accurately Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking was able to segment American television evening news broadcasts…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: A First Glimpse At Cataloging The Major Congressional Debates From CSPAN
Two years ago we explored how LLMs could help America's citizenry better understand the functioning of their government by distilling…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Experimenting With A Broader Array Of Show Types
Given Gemini's success at segmenting evening news broadcasts into their underlying stories, how well does it perform on a broader…
Snopes: Fact Check: Yes, video shows Trump stumbling up steps to Air Force One
Snopes uses the TV News Archive to verify a video of President Trump stumbling on the Air Force One stairs….
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Experimenting With Persian & Russian Broadcasts & English Translations
Continuing our series segmenting television news broadcasts into their underlying stories, yesterday we demonstrated that Gemini yields human-level segmentation accuracy…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Comparing A Week Of Evening News Human Segmentation With Gemini Pro, Flash Thinking And Flash Non-Thinking
Last week we demonstrated a major leap in our ability to automatically segment television evening news broadcasts into their underlying…
Using Gemini 2.5 Pro To Assess Evidence Sourcing & Credibility In News Reporting On Conflict
One of the most critical pieces of information that must be asked about any conflicting reporting is the sourcing of…
Mass Translating Global Television News: Comparing Gemini Pro/Flash/2.5/2.0, Gemma & Google Translate
The Television News Archive spans more than 16.7 billion spoken characters of non-English news broadcasts from across the world spanning…
Video: Planetary Scale AI: Watching, Visualizing And Forecasting The Entire World In Realtime
The video of my talk at the Americas Google Developer Experts (GDE) Summit following Google I/O 2025 is now available!…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash Thinking/Flash & Gemini 2.0 Flash/Flash-Light
Yesterday we demonstrated a major leap forward in our efforts to apply at-scale story segmentation to television news: changing from…