Author: Kalev Leetaru
Election News Displaces Covid-19 Coverage On Television News
Beginning this past Sat., Covid-19 began to fade from television news, all but disappearing since Weds, reaching the lowest levels…
Mentions Of Electoral College Still Below 2016 Peak Levels
With the election once again hinging on the electoral college, it is worth noting that television news mentions are exceeding…
Visual Global Knowledge Graph Upgrading To GDELT 3.0 Infrastructure
Just as the Global Difference Graph was upgraded to the GDELT 3.0 infrastructure earlier this week, we're excited to announce…
The New Humanitarian: What's Being Drowned Out By The US Election
A look at just a handful of the stories from around the world that aren't being covered this week and…
Global Difference Graph Now Running On GDELT 3.0 Infrastructure
We're excited to announce that the Global Difference Graph (GDG) is the first GDELT core system to be running on…
Trump And Biden Neck And Neck In Television News Mentions
Mentions of Donald Trump and Joe Biden on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News this year have exploded since initially being…
One Belt, One Road, One Sentiment? A Hybrid Approach To Gauging Public Opinions On The New Silk Road Initiative
This analysis by researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore uses GDELT as a news baseline to evaluate sentiment analysis…
Television News Mentions Of "Election" Not Higher Than Past Decade
For all of the talk of a historic election, television news mentions of the word "election" are not substantially higher…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 57 Million Entries
The new Global Relationship Graph pilot launched this past Wednesday has already reached 58 million records and climbing! We're incredibly…
The Phrase "Big Tech" Took Off In 2017 On Television News And Google Trends
The phrase "big tech" entered the television news lexicon in a glimmer briefly at the end of 2013, but took…
Using The Global Relationship Graph To Track Mask Mandate Reaction
How are mask mandates being described in the news? Using the new Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot…
Conspiracy In The Time Of Corona: Automatic Detection Of Emerging COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories In Social Media And The News
This fascinating analysis uses GDELT as an index to Covid-19 news, performing topic modeling on the resulting coverage and examining…
Global Relationship Graph: Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot
This past July we debuted the Global Relationship Graph (GRG), an experimental new initiative in codifying the factual claims and relationships made…
The Twitter Presidency: How Trump Shapes TV News Agenda
Just under a century ago, confronting an antagonistic press that opposed him at every turn, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the then-nascent…
Immigration Disappears From Television News In September 2019
Immigration has been a major topic in news coverage since Donald Trump elevated it into a signature campaign issue in…
Filibustering Mentions On Television News At Decade-Long Low
For all the recent talk of eliminating the filibuster if Democrats take the Senate, on television news over the last…
Fox News Mentions "Court Packing" Four Times As Much As CNN And MSNBC Combined
With the nomination of Amy Barrett to the US Supreme Court, the idea of "court packing" has gained attention again,…
Global Relationship Graph: Open IE 5.1 Sample Dataset
This past July we debuted the Global Relationship Graph (GRG), an experimental new initiative in codifying the factual claims and…
Climate Change Slowly Returning To Television News
Climate change has been enjoying a surge in television news attention since October 2018, but sharply dropped in October 2019,…
Television News Interest In Amy Barrett Wanes
As the confirmation of Amy Barrett appears all but inevitable, television news coverage of her has faded since last Friday….
McConnell Versus Pelosi On Television News
Comparing the combined CNN, MSNBC and Fox News monthly airtime devoted to Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell over the past…
Television News Coverage Of Black Lives Matter Fades
The Black Lives Matter movement received widespread media coverage since November 2014, peaking in August 2015 and July 2016, before…
One-Shot Learning For Temporal Knowledge Graphs
This study by researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute examples temporal knowledge graphs: Most real-world knowledge graphs are characterized by…
Tracing The Evolving Discussion Of Misinformation, Disinformation And "Fake News" On Television News
Three of the most popular terms of the last few years for referring to false information have been "misinformation" (typically…