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Lebanon All But Disappears From Television News

The Beirut explosion has all but disappeared from US television news. Read The Full Article.

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Volatility Index Not Surging During Pandemic

The timeline below shows mentions of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index (VIX) since Jan. 1, 2014, showing…

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Tracking Trump's Tweets On Television News

Using the TV AI Explorer, it is possible to search the OCR'd onscreen text of BBC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox…

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MSNBC & FOX NEWS January – April 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed

Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…

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JBEM: Predictors of International News Flow: Exploring a Networked Global Media System

This article by Lei Guo and Chris Vargo in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media explores global news flows…

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Google Cloud Blog: COVID-19 Public Datasets: Supporting Organizations In Their Pandemic Response

The Google Cloud Blog featured an excerpt about GDELT's work on creating public datasets to understand the global COVID-19 narrative….

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CNN January 2020 VGEG Backfile Now Processed

Collaborating with the Media-Data Research Consortium under its Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant “Quantifying the COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative…

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Computer Vision DevCon 2020: What Google’s Cloud Vision APIs See In A Decade Of Television News And Half A Billion Images

The open data GDELT Project has analyzed more than half a billion news images and a decade of television news…

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The Geography Of COVID-19 Twitter

Twitter has grown significantly more popular since mid-March of this year as quarantined populations across the world turned to social…

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Comparing COVID-19 Through Mediums: Twitter, Online News And Google Trends

How did the rise of COVID-19 coverage look like through Twitter, online news and Google Trends? The timeline below shows…

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Visualizing Twitter's Evolution 2012-2020 And How Tweeting Is Changing In The COVID-19 Era

Last March we published an in-depth exploration of Twitter's evolution 2012-2018 and followed it up this past November with a…

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TV Explorer Now Supports Heatmaps

We've added the TV 2.0 API's heatmap capability to the TV Explorer! View The TV Explorer.  

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TV Explorer Now Supports Streamgraphs

We've added the TV 2.0 API's streamgraph capability to the TV Explorer! View The TV Explorer.  

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Heatmap Visualization Now Available In TV 2.0 API

The TV 2.0 API now supports the new hourly heatmap visualization! This display shows an hourly timeline of total airtime…

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TV 2.0 API Now Supports Streamgraphs

As we continue to upgrade the visualization capabilities of our APIs, the TV 2.0 API now supports streamgraph visualizations!

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An Hourly Heatmap Of CNN's COVID-19 Dashboard

CNN's COVID-19 dashboard launched at noon EST on March 20th and has been a daily fixture on the channel from…

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Medium: Cable TV News And Google Are Picking Our Next President

This intriguing statistical analysis by Kent R. Kroeger includes a look at media coverage of the 2020 candidates using GDELT….

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Johns Hopkins Mentions Remain Elevated In Online News

Worldwide online news mentions of Johns Hopkins surged from late February as the university rolled out its COVID-19 tracker, peaked…

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TV AI Explorer Now Supports Heatmap Visualization

The TV AI 2.0 API's new heatmap visualization is now available in the TV AI Explorer! View The TV AI…

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Onscreen COVID-19 Death Mentions Drop Since Floyd Protests Though CNN Remains Elevated

CNN has long mentioned COVID-19 deaths far more than its peers, but in the aftermath of the George Floyd protests,…

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Television News Mentions Of School Reopenings Down Sharply From July 8

Television news mentions of schools reopening peaked July 8 and have steadily decreased in the month since, though CNN has…

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Masks Far Outpace Social Distancing On Television News

Masks have received vastly higher coverage on television news than social distancing, with distancing largely flat since the George Floyd…

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Notre Dame Fire Covered More On Television News Than Beirut Blast

When the Notre Dame cathedral caught fire last year, the destruction was broadcast live across the world, despite no known…

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TV AI Explorer Now Offers Show Breakdown

The TV AI Explorer now offers a breakdown of the top 10 shows matching your query! Explore The TV AI…