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Ethiopian Conflict Receives Little US Television News Attention

As fighting in Ethiopia intensifies, the timeline below shows it is receiving little mention on American television news. In fact, …

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"Conspiracy" Mentions Surge On Television News In Trump Era

The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning the words "conspiracy" or…

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CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Back To March Airtime Levels

Since its debut towards the end of March, CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has been regularly displaced by other news this year….

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Fauci Fades From Television News Since Election

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a fixture of television news coverage of the pandemic, but since the election his star…

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Increasing Stratification Of "Pandemic" Mentions On Television News

In the early days of Covid-19's spread this year, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all used the word "pandemic" in…

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"President Elect" Trump Versus Biden On Television News

When Donald Trump became president-elect, Fox News used the title for him the most, followed by CNN and MSNBC, while…

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Biden Equal To Trump In Television News Mentions

The timeline below tracks the combined daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning either Biden or…

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META Tag Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0

Last week we announced that we would be adding JSON-LD extraction to our GDELT 3.0 crawlers as part of a…

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Comparing The 2009-2020 Readability Scores Of CNN, MSNBC And Fox News

Yesterday we unveiled a massive new dataset of television news readability scores for 23 stations spanning portions of the past…

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The Methodological Challenges Of Interpreting Readability Scores For Spoken Word Television News Transcripts

Yesterday we announced the new Television News Readability Scores Dataset using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. One…

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Television News Readability Scores Dataset 2009-2020

UPDATE: See this deep dive on the influence of captioner shifts and the difference between transcripts and captioning in results….

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A Look At Television News' On-Air Covid-19 Dashboards

How are television news channels communicating the pandemic to their viewers? CNN's live Covid-19 tracking dashboard is perhaps the most…

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Television News Covid-19 Mentions Not Rising

While public health officials warn of the potential for a Thanksgiving superspreader event, the percentage of daily airtime on television…

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Biden Mentions At Around 10% Of Television News

Despite being the president-elect, mentions of Joe Biden on television news fell sharply since he was declared the winner and…

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Global Relationship Graph Reaches 280 Million Verb Clauses

The Global Relationship Graph's Verb-Centered NGram pilot that debuted on October 28th has reached 280 million verb clauses! Each of…

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WashPost: Trump Will Soon Leave The White House. How Long Before He Stops Dominating The Conversation?

The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at just how large Trump's shadow looms over the media landscape. Read The Full…

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Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage

Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…

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Readability Scores Dataset For Worldwide Online News Coverage in 2020

As we seek new ways of assessing and understanding how news conveys the world each day, one thread of our…

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Trump Fading On Television News Since Election

From mid-October to election day, mentions of Donald Trump have surged across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, but since November…

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Television News Is Still Covering Trump's Tweets

Far from fading into obscurity with his electoral loss, Trump's tweets are getting just as much attention as they ever…

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JSON-LD Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0

As we constantly evolve our underlying crawling and document identification infrastructures, we regularly evaluate the state of underlying internet technologies,…

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Mentions Of "Superspreaders" Fade On Television News

So-called "superspreaders" have been mentioned on television news throughout 2020, but surged briefly during the entire month of October, with…

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Television News Coverage Of "Social Distancing" Never Recovered After George Floyd Protests

Mentions of "social distancing" soared into the media lexicon in mid-March and accounted for 1-4% of daily airtime on CNN,…

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Mentions Of "Safe Spaces" Have Faded On Television News

The concept of "safe spaces" entered the television news lexicon around mid-2014, with Fox News focusing on them from late…