Author: Kalev Leetaru
"President Elect" Trump Versus Biden On Television News
When Donald Trump became president-elect, Fox News used the title for him the most, followed by CNN and MSNBC, while…
Biden Equal To Trump In Television News Mentions
The timeline below tracks the combined daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning either Biden or…
META Tag Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0
Last week we announced that we would be adding JSON-LD extraction to our GDELT 3.0 crawlers as part of a…
Comparing The 2009-2020 Readability Scores Of CNN, MSNBC And Fox News
Yesterday we unveiled a massive new dataset of television news readability scores for 23 stations spanning portions of the past…
The Methodological Challenges Of Interpreting Readability Scores For Spoken Word Television News Transcripts
Yesterday we announced the new Television News Readability Scores Dataset using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. One…
Television News Readability Scores Dataset 2009-2020
UPDATE: See this deep dive on the influence of captioner shifts and the difference between transcripts and captioning in results….
A Look At Television News' On-Air Covid-19 Dashboards
How are television news channels communicating the pandemic to their viewers? CNN's live Covid-19 tracking dashboard is perhaps the most…
Television News Covid-19 Mentions Not Rising
While public health officials warn of the potential for a Thanksgiving superspreader event, the percentage of daily airtime on television…
Biden Mentions At Around 10% Of Television News
Despite being the president-elect, mentions of Joe Biden on television news fell sharply since he was declared the winner and…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 280 Million Verb Clauses
The Global Relationship Graph's Verb-Centered NGram pilot that debuted on October 28th has reached 280 million verb clauses! Each of…
WashPost: Trump Will Soon Leave The White House. How Long Before He Stops Dominating The Conversation?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at just how large Trump's shadow looms over the media landscape. Read The Full…
Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage
Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…
Readability Scores Dataset For Worldwide Online News Coverage in 2020
As we seek new ways of assessing and understanding how news conveys the world each day, one thread of our…
Trump Fading On Television News Since Election
From mid-October to election day, mentions of Donald Trump have surged across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, but since November…
Television News Is Still Covering Trump's Tweets
Far from fading into obscurity with his electoral loss, Trump's tweets are getting just as much attention as they ever…
JSON-LD Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0
As we constantly evolve our underlying crawling and document identification infrastructures, we regularly evaluate the state of underlying internet technologies,…
Mentions Of "Superspreaders" Fade On Television News
So-called "superspreaders" have been mentioned on television news throughout 2020, but surged briefly during the entire month of October, with…
Television News Coverage Of "Social Distancing" Never Recovered After George Floyd Protests
Mentions of "social distancing" soared into the media lexicon in mid-March and accounted for 1-4% of daily airtime on CNN,…
Mentions Of "Safe Spaces" Have Faded On Television News
The concept of "safe spaces" entered the television news lexicon around mid-2014, with Fox News focusing on them from late…
Impact Of Trump's Promotion Of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments And Subsequent Internet Trends: Observational Study
A fascinating paper by Kacper Niburski1 and Oskar Niburski explores the connection between President Trump's promotion of COVID-19 treatments and…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference Today
Kalev is speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference today! Learn More.
The Crux Summit Fall 2020: Curation Enables Creation Today
Kalev is speaking today at the Crux Summit Fall 2020 in a panel titled "Curation Enables Creation" alongside Berkley's Michael…
World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers: Big Data, Big Stories: Next Month
Attend the 2020 World Congress Of Science & Factual Producers next month to hear Kalev speak about "Big Data, Big…
Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference
Kalev will be speaking at the Data Natives Unlimited 2020 Conference this week! Learn More.