Author: Kalev Leetaru
Visual Explorer + YOLOv5 To Catalog Objects In A Russian TV News Broadcast
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a popular and widely-used open object detection toolkit that is both extremely fast and…
Media Reporting On Terror Fuels School Dropout
An article in today's Kenyans.co.ke edition covers how media reporting of terror attacks on schools in Kenya is negatively impacting…
Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset Reaches 300 Billion Entries
The Web News NGrams 3.0 Dataset has reached 299.9 billion entries! See our tutorials roundup from this past January for glimpses at…
BBVA: Iran Social Unrest Infographic
BBVA examines media coverage of the Iranian protests in this infographic. See The Full Infographic.
Today: MEDIT Open Seminar At Tallinn University
Kalev is speaking today at Tallinn University on the power of television news data, visual analytics and AI along with…
Economic Uncertainty Through Television News: November 2022
Economic uncertainty is a closely watched metric by economists. Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom & Davis have constructed simple narrative indicators of…
WashPost: Despite The Midterms And A Mass Shooting, Trans People Remain A Target
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media framing of transgender people. Read The Full Article.
Journal Of Risk Finance: News-Based Sentiment: Can It Explain Market Performance Before And After The Russia–Ukraine Conflict?
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market response of the aerospace and defense industry and the airline…
This Week: MEDIT Open Seminar At Tallinn University
Kalev will be speaking on Tuesday at Tallinn University on the power of television news data, visual analytics and AI…
Mapping Global News Coverage Of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Using GDELT Summary, we can easily search for worldwide news coverage across GDELT 2.0's 65 live-translated languages that mention LNG….
Cataloging Global Opposition To Energy Pipeline Projects
Using GDELT Summary, we can easily search for worldwide news coverage across GDELT 2.0's 65 live-translated languages that mention pipelines…
Fox News Continues To Cover Immigration Far More Than CNN Or MSNBC
Fox News has mentioned immigration more than its peers since shortly after Donald Trump's inauguration, with mentions dropping sharply from…
COP27 Climate Change Summit Receives Little TV News Coverage
The COP27 climate change summit has received little coverage compared with the past two years of discussion of climate change….
Trump Still Looms Large Over The TV News Landscape
On a given day this month, Donald Trump has still been mentioned 100-200 times on Fox News, 250-400 times on…
TV News Coverage Of Trump's False Claims About Bush & Obama's Document Practices
With Donald Trump once again repeating false claims about Bush and Obama's document practices, how has television news covered his…
Nuclear Weapons Imagery Continues On Russian TV News: Today's 60 Minutes
Despite Russia's lessened overt nuclear threats against the West, the country's television news channels continue to showcase nuclear weapons imagery,…
WashPost: House Republicans Announce Plans To Produce Content For Fox News
The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores the intersection of Republican rhetoric and Fox News coverage. Read The Full Article.
Visual Explorer: Automatic Transcriptions Now Live In Visual Explorer For Belarusian, Russian And Ukrainian TV News
We are tremendously excited to announce today that automated Russian and Ukrainian language transcripts for all broadcasts airing on Belarus24,…
Visualizing A Decade Of Twitter's Evolution: Jan 2012 – Nov 2022 & Musk's Purchase
Each year we publish a "State of the Twitterverse" that looks back at how Twitter has evolved since the start…
WashPost: How The Cable Networks Covered Trump
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how Trump's candidacy announcement was covered on television news. Read The Full Article.
Visual Channel Comparer: A Look At How CNN, MSNBC & Fox News Covered Trump's Candidacy Announcement
How did CNN, MSNBC and Fox News cover Trump's announcement last night that he was running once again for the…
Visual Explorer's Visual Channel Comparer: A Senate COVID-19 Hearing Vs TV News Coverage (CSPAN3/CNN/MSNBC/FOXNEWS)
This past January 11th, a Senate COVID-19 hearing "Addressing New Variants: A Federal Perspective on the COVID-19 Response" received widespread…
Visual Explorer's Visual Channel Comparer: One Hour Of Global TV News Through The Eyes Of 30 Channels
Using the Visual Explorer's new Visual Channel Comparer, earlier today we compared midterm 2022 coverage hour by hour across CNN,…
Visual Explorer's Visual Channel Comparer: Comparing CNN, MSNBC & Fox News' 2022 Midterms Coverage
Last week we unveiled a new Visual Explorer tool called the Visual Channel Comparer that allows you to create thumbnail…