Author: Kalev Leetaru
Explaining The Shift In Television News Readability Scores
What might explain the profound change in the readability of television news coverage over the past decade? As the timeline…
Comparing Television News Readability Between Transcripts And Closed Captioning
When it comes to translating television news into searchable text, both realtime closed captioning and cleaned post-broadcast rush transcripts are…
Identifying Invalid JSON-LD Through The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
How might we use the Global Embedded Metadata Graph to identify invalid JSON-LD code in news articles? The following query…
Compiling A Histogram Of META Tags From The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
What are the most common attributes seen in <META> tags on the open web? Earlier today, with around 12 hours…
Comparing Covid-19 Coverage Across National, International, Business and CSPAN Television News
How has the attention paid to Covid-19 varied across different classes of television channels? The charts below plot the percentage…
"Great Barrington Declaration" Receives Little Television News Attention
The Great Barrington Declaration received a brief burst of attention in October, but has seen few mentions since. MSNBC has covered it…
"Herd Immunity" Mentions Resume On Television News
Since mid-March, discussion of "herd immunity" has ebbed and flowed on television news, with an initial wave lasting until the…
Bitcoin Mentions Surge On Business Television News
Mentions of bitcoin on business television news channels Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business began picking up in May 2017 and…
Using The Global Embedded Metadata Graph To Explore Trends In JSON-LD
How can we use the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph to explore some of the trends in metadata usage in a day…
Using The Global Embedded Metadata Graph To Explore Trends In META Tags
How can we use the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph to explore some of the trends in metadata usage in…
Announcing The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
We are enormously excited today to announce the debut of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG), which records the hidden…
The Ethiopian Conflict On Television News: US Versus The World
The timeline below plots the weekly airtime covering the Ethiopian conflict across a selection of US and international television channels…
Ethiopian Conflict Receives Little US Television News Attention
As fighting in Ethiopia intensifies, the timeline below shows it is receiving little mention on American television news. In fact, …
"Conspiracy" Mentions Surge On Television News In Trump Era
The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning the words "conspiracy" or…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Back To March Airtime Levels
Since its debut towards the end of March, CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has been regularly displaced by other news this year….
Fauci Fades From Television News Since Election
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a fixture of television news coverage of the pandemic, but since the election his star…
Increasing Stratification Of "Pandemic" Mentions On Television News
In the early days of Covid-19's spread this year, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all used the word "pandemic" in…
"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…