Author: Kalev Leetaru
Hannity Leads The Way In "Fake News" Mentions In 2020
Since the start of 2020, Fox News has mentioned the phrase "fake news" more than four times as often as…
Television News Mentions Of "Fake News" Trend Steadily Downward But Fox News Still Leads The Way
Television news mentions of "fake news" have trended steadily downward since they rocketed to prominence in November 2016, with Fox…
Covid-19 Brings To End Surge In Discussion Of Homelessness On Fox News
Mentions of homelessness surged on Fox News from May 2019 through a peak in December 2019, but have dropped precipitously…
Visual Global Entity Graph Adds Cloud Video Annotations Of MSNBC, Fox News and BBC To CNN To Support Covid-19 Research
The Visual Global Entity Graph (VGEG) has analyzed the evening news programming of ABC, CBS and NBC since 2010 through…
Unemployment Numbers Versus Infection Numbers On Television News
An opinion piece in yesterday's Washington Post by Helaine Olen raised the fascinating question of whether television news outlets should…
WashPost: Ingraham And Hannity Have Been Talking About Hydroxychloroquine Twice As Much As Any Other Show
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how coverage of a number of terms varies across media personalities. View The Full…
Mentions Of Video Conferencing Soar
As the timeline below shows, mentions of video conferencing had two periods of increase. They began to soar in late…
Television Explorer's Show Chart & Fox's Focus On Hydroxychloroquine
Last week we showed that Fox News has mentioned Hydroxychloroquine much more often than CNN or MSNBC. This raises the…
TV 2.0 API Now Offers Breakdown By Show
The TV 2.0 API makes it possible to conduct advanced analytics over more than a decade of television news programming…
Mentions Of Hiring Freezes Soar Starting In Early March
Mentions of hiring freezes began to soar starting in early March as companies across the world internalized the impact of…
China Economic Times: GDELT Big Data To See The Change Of Global Epidemic Concern
An article in today's China Economic Times uses GDELT to explore global media reaction to the growing Covid-19 pandemic. Read…
We're Talking More About Evictions But Less Than In 2011
Television news is talking more about evictions starting last month, but is still off from its 2011 peak. Live Version….
New Humanitarian: Covid-19 Disruption To Egg Supply Before Passover In Israeli Headlines
New Humanitarian's Ben Parker has this fascinating graph of the density of discussion in Israeli media mentioning eggs. View The…
Livemint: How Access To Facebook Stirs Protests
Livemint covers this study from last year on the relationship between Facebook usage and protest activity globally. Read The Full…
Graphing Covid-19 Geographic News Timelines Using BigQuery
Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, its possible with a simple SQL query to visualize geographic timelines. For example,…
HFM Virtual Symposium: Dirty Data: Cleaning, Mapping And Analyzing
Kalev will be speaking at HFM's Virtual Symposium alongside MayStreet's founder and CEO and the CTO of Crux Informatics on…
An Animated Map Of Global Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto
How did news coverage of Covid-19 spread across the world? Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, it takes…
Governors Increasingly In The Spotlight On Television News
State governors are increasingly in the spotlight as many of the Covid-19 responses fall to states to implement. The timeline…
One-Click Mapping Of Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto
How can you use the new Covid-19 Geographic News Database to map the locations mentioned in Covid-19 news coverage? With…
Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage
Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…
BlueDot's December 31st Covid-19 Warning Matches NSC's Early Warning
Reuters' chronology of the early days of the US Government's response to Covid-19 includes this fascinating detail: "The [NSC] was…
Global Mentions Of 'Rationing' Took Off At The Beginning Of March
Globally, online news mentions of rationing soared in early March. Live Version. Look back a decade through television news, mentions…
Fauci And Birx Getting More Media Attention While CDC Fades
The CDC and its director unsurprisingly emerged as the early media go-to's of the Covid-19 pandemic, surging into the headlines…
Covid-19 Pandemic Massively Outpacing Coverage Of Syria, Locusts Or Ebola
American television news stations have run wall-to-wall coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, using data from the Internet Archive's Television…