Author: Kalev Leetaru
On Television News Covid-19-Based Racial Discrimination Gets Little Coverage Outside Fox News
Television news coverage on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News has paid little attention to racist incidents, especially against Asians, due…
Recession Prediction Markets And Macroeconomic Risk In Asset Prices
This paper by Harvard Kennedy School's Jonathan Hartley includes a brief GDELT analysis. Read The Full Paper.
Mentions Of "Chinese Virus" Surge On Fox But Just A Fraction Of Total Coverage
Earlier this month the White House attempted to rebrand Covid-19 as the "Chinese Virus", with the president infamously crossing out…
National Review: Could A "Draft Cuomo" Movement Be In The Democrats' Future?
The National Review's John Fund references Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of media coverage of Cuomo's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read…
Assessing Italian Press Tone Towards China
This interesting post on Chinese Q&A site Zhihu uses GDELT's tone data to assess Italian press coverage of China. Read…
Cuomo Rises As Trump Falls In COVID-19 Coverage
Donald Trump has at times accounted for more than a third of daily television news airtime on CNN, MSNBC and…
Cuomo's Media Star Rises As Trump's Falls
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting more and more attention from the media even as Trump fades from the…
Cuomo Takes The Media Lead Over de Blasio In Covid-19 Response
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has become New York's defacto face to the media for its Covid-19 response, while New…
Is It "Coronavirus" Or "Covid-19" Or "Chinese Flu": The Naming Of A Pandemic
What was initially known simply as "Coronavirus" gave way to its eventual designation "Covid-19", while the White House has taken…
Now Live Updating & Expanded: A New Dataset For Exploring The Coronavirus Narrative On Television News
Last week we released a massive new dataset of television news mentions of Covid-19 across 16 stations from January 1,…
WashPost: The Three Phases Of Trump's Insistence On Pointing Out That The Coronavirus Originated In China
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how media coverage of Covid-19 has mirrored the White House's association of it with…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
Silicon Republic: Meet The Syrian Data Scientist In Ireland Using Her Skills To Aid Refugees
A fantastic feature on Suad Aldarra's work exploring and visualizing the global narratives around refugees. Read The Full Article.
"Elderly" Is The Word Of The Month
Mentions of the word "elderly" have soared across the media this month. The timeline below shows mention density in global…
We're Not Talking About The Wildlife Link To The Coronavirus
There is widespread agreement that Covid-19 likely emerged through the wildlife trade. The timeline below shows the percentage of global…
Virus Coverage: Business/Global TV Was Ahead Of The Curve
As the coronavirus has hit home for America, how have the media covered the pandemic and how has it displaced…
It Takes A village To Manipulate The Media: Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior During 2018 And 2019 Italian Elections
This paper in Information, Communication & Society uses GDELT as a proxy for news coverage to understand social link sharing…
Towards Data Science: The Political And Economic Perspective Of Covid-19
At look at the economic impact of Covid-19 using GDELT's Television Explorer to understand media coverage trends. Read The Full…
We're Talking More And More About A "Recession"
Global online news coverage is increasingly discussing the specter of a "recession", surpassing even August 2019's peak: Live Version. As…
Using Google’s AI Workshop "Semantic Similarity For Natural Language" Experiment To Segment Television News Into Stories
Google’s AI Workshop offers an incredibly rich collection of research experiments spanning the frontiers of AI research today. Unlike Google’s…
The Pitt News: Fostering Mental Health Amid The COVID-19 Crisis
An opinion piece in the University of Pittsburgh's student newspaper cites Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of media coverage of the Covid-19…
"Flatten The Curve" Has Lept Into Our Lexicon
The phrase "flatten the curve" has lept into our lexicon, from epidemiological obscurity into household name almost overnight. The timeline…
How Does Coronavirus Coverage Volume Stack Up Against Ebola And Zika?
The timeline below shows the percentage of airtime by week since 2009 on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News using data…
Mentions Of "Normal" Surging
The word "normal" has become the word of the past two months as mentions have surged nearly vertically. Usage ranges…