Author: Kalev Leetaru
Russian Media Continues To Repurpose American Media To Advance Its Narratives: Bloomberg Article On RT
Russian media continues to repurpose American and European media coverage to raise questions about the ability of Ukraine and its…
Visual Explorer: Master List Of ZIP Files For All 1.5 Million Broadcasts: Enabling At-Scale Non-Consumptive Visual Analysis Spanning 50 Countries Over 20 Years
The TV News Visual Explorer now encompasses selections from 98 channels spanning 50 countries and territories in 35 languages and…
WashPost: Russian TV Is Very Excited About Такер Карлсон's Nord Stream Theory
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how Russian media is airing Tucker Carlson's claims that the US sabotaged Nord Stream….
Visual Explorer: Lazy Loading Images On Inventory Page
As continue to make performance enhancements to the Visual Explorer to prepare it for the release of our Russian and…
Behind The Scenes: The Power Of Simple Command Line Tools At Cloud Scale
Most discussions of cloud-scale infrastructure focus on massive exotic architectures that rely on highly specialized tools. It is worth pointing…
Today: The Future Of Text
Kalev will be speaking today at "The Future Of Text" symposium at The Linnean Society in London, co-convened by Frode…
Tweets On Television News: A 2012 Example From TelevisaUnivision's Galavisión
In 2020 and 2021 we collaborated with First Draft to examine how television news coverage amplified then-President Donald trump's tweets,…
This Week: The Future Of Text
Kalev will be speaking this Tuesday at "The Future Of Text" symposium at The Linnean Society in London, co-convened by…
Creating A Daily Global Shortage Timeline Using Web NGrams 3.0 & BigQuery In One SQL Query
Earlier today we showed how to use Web NGrams 3.0 and BigQuery to track mentions of "shortages of" across English…
LGBTQ Mentions On Television News Rising Slowly Under Biden
LGBTQ mentions on television news collapsed in late 2016 and have never recovered compared to where they were the first…
Recession Mentions Are Down Across Television News
After peaking in July, mentions of "recession" on television news are down sharply. Looking just since the start of this…
500 Years Of Images From The World's Books As An AI Training Dataset
Eight years ago GDELT's Kalev Leetaru collaborated with the Internet Archive to extract the images from 600 million digitized public…
Using Web NGrams 3.0 & BigQuery To Track "Shortages of …"
We've published a growing collection of tutorials on how to use the Web News NGrams 3.0 dataset for a range…
Using The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 As An AI-Powered Visual Index To The Visual Explorer
For CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC News London since January 1, 2020 and the ABC, CBS and NBC evening…
New York Times' Tucker Carlson Series Wins The 2022 ONA For Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling
The New York Times's Tucker Carlson series has won the 2022 Online Journalism Award (ONA) For Excellence and Innovation in…
TV News Visual Explorer: Announcing 98 Channels In 50 Countries In 35 Languages Over 20 Years
Today we are immensely excited to announce a new collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive to make available…
WashPost: How Social Influencers Helped Drive Fox News Coverage
Yesterday, the Washington Post published an incredibly detailed in-depth look at the connection between social influencers and Fox News coverage…
See Putin's Speech In The TV News Visual Explorer
You can view Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech today in the Visual Explorer from 1TV, showcasing the power of this…
WashPost: Trump's 'Big Lie' Fueled A New Generation Of Social Media Influencers
The Washington Post's Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeremy B. Merrill published today this impressive and detailed in-depth look at the MSM-social…
Mentions Of Sexual Assault And Harassment On Television News Have Returned To Their Pre-MeToo Levels
The #MeToo movement brought with it significant media coverage of sexual assault and harassment on television news, but while mentions…
Coverage Of #MeToo Has Faded On Television News
The #MeToo movement burst into television news in October-November 2017, but largely faded within a year on CNN and MSNBC,…
The Internet Archive's TV News Archive Turns 10: A Look Back At A Decade Of Pioneering Collaboration Reimagining Media Research
The Internet Archive's Television News Archive was launched to the public ten years ago today and GDELT and its founder…
The Benefit Of Narratives For Prediction Of The S&P 500 Index
This paper uses GDELT for financial forecasting: In this article, the authors show that variables from the Global Database of…
How American Media Is Repurposed By Adversaries Abroad: From Russian Coverage Of Its Ukraine Invasion To Iranian Sanctions
One of the many fascinating elements of Russian domestic television coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the way to…