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Tracking Ad Council Ads Across Television News 2020-Present

The timeline below shows the total seconds of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News since the start of last…

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How Often Do CNN, MSNBC And Fox News Mention Each Other On Air?

How often do television news channels mention each other? The timeline below shows how often the word "CNN" has spoken onair on MSNBC…

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Liz Cheney Got More Attention On CNN And MSNBC Than Gaza Or The Colonial Pipeline Hack Combined

An opinion piece in The Hill last week argued that many media outlets had paid more attention to Liz Cheney than either the Gaza conflict or Colonial…

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Tracking The Ad Council's Latest GetVaccineAnswers.org TV Campaign

This past March the Ad Council announced a new ad campaign targeting vaccine hesitant communities to encourage them to get…

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The Colonial Pipeline Hack Didn't Get Media Attention Until The Gas Shortages

How much media attention did the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack receive? The timeline below shows total daily mentions of either Colonial Pipeline or "gas"…

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New York Times: Inflation Fears Abound As Gas And Lumber Shortages Bite. Should The Fed Worry?

The New York Times used the TV Explorer to tally television news attention to inflation. Read The Full Article.

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Which Side Is Receiving More Television News Attention: Israel Or The Palestinians?

How much attention is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict receiving on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of both Israelis and Palestinians…

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Reason: Cult Country: Is This A New Age Of Cultism – Or A New Cult Panic?

Reason Magazine used the Television Explorer to tally growing discussion of "cults" across television news. Read The Full Article.

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Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset Reaches 5.16 Billion Words

The Television News Ngram 2.0 Dataset has reached 5.16 billion words of primarily human transcribed text via closed captioning analysis!…

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Radio News Ngram Dataset Reaches 28 Billion Words

The Radio News Ngram Dataset has reached 28 billion words of automatically transcribed speech! Learn More.

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How Television News Has Covered Alexei Navalny

How has television news covered Russian activist Alexei Navalny? The timeline below shows total mentions of him across a selection of television news…

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Examining The Onscreen Text Of Television News Advertising

Earlier today we demonstrated how to exclude advertising airtime when examining patterns in the OCR'd onscreen text that appears on…

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Who Set The Narrative? Assessing The Influence Of Chinese Global Media On News Coverage Of COVID-19 In 30 African Countries

A fascinating look at soft power and the contextualization of Covid-19 in African media: The size of China’s State-owned media’s…

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Fox News Has Covered Tim Scott More Than CNN And MSNBC Combined

How much attention has Republican Senator Tim Scott received across television news? The timeline below shows total monthly mentions of him over…

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Creating Television News OCR NGrams That Exclude Advertising Text

Using the "video time" edition of the Advertising Inventory Files (AIF) dataset, we can filter the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0…

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Mentions Of "Anonymous Sources" Doubled On Television News During Trump's Presidency

How often are "anonymous sources" mentioned on television news? The timeline below shows monthly mentions of the phrase "anonymous source/sources/sourcing" over the…

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Excluding Advertisements From VGEG Video AI Analysis Of Television News

Last April we showed how to analyze top visual trends by day across television news using the Visual Global Entity…

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Leviathan As Foreign Investor: Geopolitics And Sovereign Wealth Funds

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are important but understudied state investors. We investigate whether geopolitics influences SWFs foreign acquisitions, asking if…

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CNN And MSNBC Mentioned Matt Gaetz 20x More Than Fox News Last Month

How much attention did Representative Matt Gaetz receive on television news last month after a series of allegations against him emerged? The timeline below…

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A Timeline Of Infection, Death And Vaccination Count Mentions In The News During Covid-19 Using The Global Numeric Graph

Using the new Global Numeric Graph announced yesterday, which tracks global mentions of precise numeric counts in worldwide news coverage…

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The Potential For AI In Audiovisual Archives

This article by Randi Cecchine discusses how audiovisual archives are making use of AI, including a brief discussion of GDELT….

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Fox News Has Mentioned Liz Cheney 4.5x Less Than CNN This Year

As the GOP decides Liz Cheney's future, how much coverage has she received on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions…

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Announcing The Global Numeric Graph

We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the GDELT Global Numeric Graph (GNG), which compiles appearances of…

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La Silla Vacia: The Sum Of All Crises

A fascinating Spanish-language analysis that combines protest data with Covid-19 news coverage. Read The Full Article.