Author: Kalev Leetaru
Immigration Has All But Disappeared From Television News
Immigration was once one of the centerpieces of Donald Trump's administrative priorities, but suddenly in September 2019 it all but…
Mentions Of "Men" Versus "Women" On Television News
As gender diversity issues have attracted more attention in recent years, it is worth noting that the timeline below of…
Most Mentions Of Food Banks On Television News In A Decade
Over the past decade, food banks have received only a small number of monthly mentions on television news. Beginning with…
Global Geographic Graph Reaches 1.9 Billion Entries
The Global Geographic Graph running 2017-present has reached 1.9 billion records! Learn More.
Television News Mentions Of Unemployment Decreases
Mentions of unemployment dropped sharply from late 2012 as the 2008 recession recovered, but began to pick up again in…
"Small" Versus "Large" On Television News
Mentions of the word "large" have decreased slightly over the past decade, but interestingly, mentions of the word "small" were…
Television News Hasn't Talked About The Deficit Since 2013
The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning the word "deficit" across the three major general news channels…
Inflation Mentions At Decade-Long Low
Despite growing concerns about future inflation, mentions on general television news are at a decade-long low and have been at…
Mentions Of "Conservative" Versus "Liberal" On Television News
As our nation is increasingly politically polarized, it is worth asking whether there are major differences in the usage of…
Mentions Of "Monopoly" Increase – On Fox News
Mentions of the words "monopoly" and "monopolies" have increased steadily on Fox News since mid-2016, while CNN and MSNBC mentioned…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 400 Million Relationships
We're excited to announce that the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, which debuted just over a month ago,…
"President-Elect Biden" Versus "President-Elect Trump" On Television News
The timeline below shows the daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning "President Elect Trump" after…
Mentions Of "Criminals" Have Increased On Television News Over A Decade
Mentions of "criminals" and "crime" were relatively stable on television news from 2009 through 2013, but increased slightly through late…
The Election That Never Ended: Television News Still Focusing On Election
The 2020 election officially ended just over a month ago, but in the eyes of television media is still ongoing….
We're Talking About "Contactless" Again
Mentions of "contactless" delivery first entered the television news lexicon in late March and surged in April before fading, but…
We're Talking Less About "Delivery" Compared With Earlier In The Pandemic
The timeline below shows the percentage of daily television news airtime mentioning the word "delivery" by day over the course…
Web News Ngrams Reach 15.9 Billion Records
The 152-language Web News NGram dataset that runs January 1, 2019 through present, has reached 15.9 billion records, where each…
The Very Different Views Of "Economic Uncertainty" On General And Business Television News
How can we measure the degree of "economic uncertainty" being expressed in the news each day? Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom…
"Outdoors" Mentioned On Television News This Year More Than The Past Decade
Unsurprisingly for a year in which the indoors have been viewed as a dangerous place, mentions of "outdoor" and the…
Electric Cars Surge On Television News A Decade After Last Coverage Increase
Electric cars were mentioned steadily frmo 2009 through early 2012, but faded and have had few mentions in the years…
Television News Mentions And Web Searches For "Wildlife" Decreasing
This year's pandemic-driven rules around social distancing and the dangers of indoor proximity have prompted a newfound discussion of the…
Automatic JSON-LD Correction Coming To The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
With the release of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, we're seeing just how bad the state of JSON compliance is…
UTF-8, UTF-16 & Beyond The Unicode BMP: Lessons From The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
While fairly rare in the body text of news coverage, with the release of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph, we're…
Global Embedded Metadata Graph Historical Backfile Coming Soon
Based on the excitement and fantastic feedback we've been receiving about the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph and its usefulness,…