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"Nationalism" Peaked On TV News From January 2016 To August 2019 But Has Faded Since

Mentions of the words "nationalism" and "nationalist(s)" appeared most commonly on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News from around January 2016…

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We're Talking More About The Supreme Court Since Donald Trump But Less Than October 2020

Mentions of the US Supreme Court have increased since the election of Donald Trump and have increased steadily since the…

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Labor Strike Mentions Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

Despite historic inflation, mentions of labor strikes have not increased substantially and remain slightly below their pre-pandemic levels. Mentions dropped…

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Fox News Featuring Gas Prices Twice As Much As CNN And 4.4 Times More Than MSNBC

The streamgraph below shows the total seconds of daily airtime in which gas prices were mentioned somewhere in the onscreen…

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TV Visual Explorer: Deutsche Welle (DW) English 2020-Present Historical Backfile Now Available

To make it possible for scholars, journalists and public health officials to better understand how the story of the Covid-19…

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The Media Isn't Talking About Unionization

The timeline below shows monthly mentions of unionization across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade, showing mentions…

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Data Science For Social Good: Mining And Visualizing Worldwide News To Monitor Xenophobic Violence Towards Migrants And Refugees

Michele C. Weigle and Erika Frydenlund, Data Science for Social Good: Mining and Visualizing Worldwide News to Monitor Xenophobic Violence…

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Boycott Mentions Rise On Fox News Since Trump But Less On CNN And MSNBC

Looking at mentions of boycotts over the past decade, they increased since Donald Trump's election, but largely on Fox News,…

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TV Visual Explorer: Looking Back On The 10-Year Anniversary Of 9/11

As we approach the July 4th weekend, the TV Visual Explorer's 13-year archive of American television news reminds of the…

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Gas Price Mentions Continue To Rise On Business Television News

Business television news channels began focusing on the rising cost of gas in February of last year, right after Biden's…

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Gas Price Mentions On TV News Finally Eclipse March 2012 Peak On Fox News

Mentions of the price of gasoline have been rising since May 2021 and accelerating since this past November. Last month…

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TV Visual Explorer: BBC News London 2020-Present Historical Backfile Now Available

To make it possible for scholars, journalists and public health officials to better understand how the story of the Covid-19…

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Predicting Terrorist Attacks In The United States Using Localized News Data

This study combines the GKG and EVENT datasets to incorporate thematic narrative underpinnings in the prediction of terror attacks: Terrorism…

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Television News Coverage Of Covid-19 Continues To Decline

Since peaking in April-May 2020, television news coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has continued to decline almost linearly. It dropped…

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Pandemic Mentions Collapse Across The World Since Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a vertical collapse in television news coverage of Covid-19 in the last days of…

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TV Visual Explorer: Al Jazeera English 2020-Present Historical Backfile Now Available

To make it possible for scholars, journalists and public health officials to better understand how the story of the Covid-19…

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Supply Chain Mentions Off Their October 2021 Peak But Remain Elevated

Supply chains were rarely mentioned on television news until February 2020 as Covid-19 lockdowns spread across the world and peaked…

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Did Trump And Facebook Lead To A Surge In Fact-Checking?

In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. The following month, Facebook launched a new partnership with news…

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TV Visual Explorer: MyNetworkTV KRON Now Available

As part of our experiments in making local news accessible to scholars and journalists to better understand the unique role…

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GEN4: How A 1-Core VM Can Ingest 33 HD TV Channels & The Power Of Cloud Networking

Historically, GDELT ingested television news feeds through a number of workflows on an assortment of machines across GCP's US data…

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Television News Is Ramping Up Mentions Of Dreaded "Stagflation"

Fox News began mentioning dreaded "stagflation" in April 2021 and has maintained continually increasing coverage of it in the year…

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TV Visual Explorer: San Francisco FOX 2 KTVU Now Available

As part of our experiments in making local news accessible to scholars and journalists to better understand the unique role…

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Television News Is Ramping Up Recession Coverage

Mentions of a recession across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News began rising in March of this year and have surged…

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Inflation Mentions Continue To Rise On Business And General Television News

Inflation started being mentioned on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News last February, taking off on Fox News in May 2021,…