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Comparing News Coverage Of Media Industry Unemployment With Rise In “Opening Up” Coverage

The journalism world in the US has been hit hard by the economic damage from shutting down the economy to…

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Mentions Of "Herd Immunity" Steady

After rocking into the media lexicon March 13th and peaking a day later, "herd immunity" has remained relatively stable ever…

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Mentions Of “Wuhan Lab” Back On Television News Though Fox Still Takes The Lead

President Trump helped popularize the phrase “Wuhan Lab” as the administration promoted the theory that Covid-19 was either created in…

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Examining Trends in Moral News Framing Across a Decade of Television Coverage

Yesterday we released Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary scores for television news. To help you understand how to use these new…

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Mapping The Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) "care_sent" Score For Television News In 2020

Using the new Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary scores for television news, it is trivial to map how the moral foundations…

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Only Fox News Seems Interested In Tara Reade’s Biden Accusation

Two years ago, Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh received wall-to-wall coverage on television news for nearly an…

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Mired In Semantics, Fact Checkers Miss The COVID-19 Moment

The COVID-19 pandemic would seem tailor-made for the world's fact-checking organizations to mitigate the spread of falsehoods at a time…

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A Closer Look At Television News Coverage Of Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations

The 2018 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh unexpectedly morphed into a referendum on #MeToo’s impact on politics…

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#MeToo Interest Fading Away On Television News

The #MeToo movement was once everywhere in the news, seemingly bringing down another powerful figure each week. Yet since its…

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Television News Losing Interest In Women's March

The aftermath of Donald Trump’s election saw the birth of both the Women’s March and #MeToo as a rallying cry…

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New Signs Of Life In Media Coverage Of Campaign 2020

The 2020 presidential race all but vanished from television news on March 12th as the Covid-19 pandemic consumed all available…

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A Decade Of Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) Scores For Television News

With a single SQL query and the Television News Ngram Dataset, its possible to run large-scale macro emotional assessments of…

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Elon Musk and Twitter: A Censorship Double Standard?

Social media companies have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by rolling out new policies dramatically expanding their censorship powers. And…

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FiveThirtyEight: How The Media Has – And Hasn’t – Covered Tara Reade's Allegation

FiveThirtyEight explores coverage of the Tara Reade allegations. Read The Full Article.

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Mentions Of Immigration Hit Three-Year Lows

Mentions of immigration in worldwide online news coverage have dropped to their lowest point in the last three years. Live…

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Fox News Takes Lead On Mentions Of Bats

As discussion of the origins of Covid-19 has increasingly centered on bats, mentions of the mammals have really picked up…

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Using The Global Quotation Graph To Track Statements About Hydroxychloroquine

Using the new Global Quotation Graph it requires just a single line of SQL to compile a list of public…

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Announcing The Global Quotation Graph

We are tremendously excited to announce today the debut of the GDELT Global Quotation Graph, which compiles quoted statements in…

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Hong Kong Remains Off Media Radar

Mentions of Hong Kong on television news began June 9, 2019 and ended November 29, 2019, with BBC covering them…

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Rod Arquette Show Radio Interview On Tara Reade Coverage

Kalev joined the Rod Arquette show today to discuss his RealClearPolitics analysis of Tara Reade coverage. Listen.

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Building An Open Resources Repository For COVID-19 Research

This collaborative effort by researchers at a number of universities endeavors to create a centralized database of Covid-19-related datasets: The…

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Biden vs. Kavanaugh: How the #MeToo Numbers Stack Up

Three years ago, the #MeToo movement was everywhere, with powerful men facing public reckonings seemingly on a weekly basis. Two…

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New Twitter Censorship Rules Raise Transparency Questions

After years of being on the defensive over data breaches, privacy invasion, censorship and monopoly concerns, social media platforms are…

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Updated Dr.'s Chronology From Television News OCR

We've updated our chronology of Dr.'s from the onscreen OCR'd text of television news that we first released last week….