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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.

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A TF-IDF Chronology Of The Global Geographic Graph Of The Top Terms Associated With Italy Jan-Apr 2020

How might we apply a TF-IDF analysis to the contextual field of the Global Geographic Graph of English language online…

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A Daily Timeline Of Key Vaccine Topics In 2021 Through A TF-IDF BigQuery Analysis Of The Global Relationship Graph

What are the most significant words and phrases associated with vaccines by day thus far this year? To explore this…

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American Television News Has Barely Covered India's Covid-19 Plight

How much coverage has India's Covid-19 plight received across US and selected international television news? The timeline below shows total monthly mentions…

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Using The Global Relationship Graph To Compile English News Statements About Vaccination From May 1-6

Using the Global Relationship Graph's (GRG) Realtime Verb-Centered NGram Pilot, what can we learn about statements in English language online news media…

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How Much Coverage Has D.C. Statehood Received On Television News?

How much attention has D.C. statehood received on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of airtime by day since…

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CNN And MSNBC Covered The Disproven Harris Book Migrant Welcome Pack Story Far More Than Fox News

A little under a week and a half ago the story broke that Vice President Harris' book was being handed out in…

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FiveThirtyEight: Republicans' Pessimistic Views On The Economy Have Little To Do With The Economy

FiveThirtyEight uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of economic anxiety. Read The Full Article.