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Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of Iranian TV News

In a global world beset by an growing number of crises and conflicts, it is more important than ever for…

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Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Explore The Visual Landscape Of An Entire Day Of Russian TV News

Yesterday we explored how, in an ever more unstable world, we can use multimodal image embedding models to cluster, search,…

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Using Multimodal Image Embeddings To Visualize, Cluster & Search The Visual Landscape Of A Russian TV News Broadcast

In this era of ever-growing crises across the world, how might machines help journalists and scholars look across the landscape…

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How The World Covers Global Events: The Myriad Voices Of Planet Earth

One of the most powerful dimensions of GDELT is the way in which it makes it possible to look across…

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The Web On Television: How Television News Turned To The Web Twenty Years Ago To Cover 9/11 Headlines

In a fascinating bit of history, look at how Greek television news turned to a sequence of screenshots of the…

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WashPost: The Perils Of Never Questioning What Jim Jordan Says

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Jim Jordan. Read The Full Article.

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Visual Explorer: Transcribing The TV News Archive's 9/11 Global Television News Archive

Earlier this morning we announced that we have transcribed the first decade of the Internet Archive's TV News Archive. As…

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Visual Explorer: The First Decade & 19M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

We are tremendously excited to announce today that in collaboration with the Internet Archive, the entire first decade (2001-2010) of…

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Israel Has Largely Displaced Ukraine From Television News

Coverage of Ukraine has dramatically faded from television news, collapsing from hundreds of mentions a day to just a few…

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Coming Soon: 18M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive has reached 18.4 million minutes of transcribed broadcasts,…

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Visual Explorer: Net Cafe 1996-2002 Archive Transcribed

Earlier this year in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we made available in the Visual Explorer the complete 1996-2002 archive of…

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Monday: Data For Peace 2023: Using Data And AI For Conflict Early Warning And Crisis Prevention

Kalev will be speaking Monday on the afternoon plenary panel at the Data For Peace 2023 conference on "Using Data…

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Video: AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Decade Of TV News Archive Research

The video of Kalev's speech last night at the Internet Archive's gala "AI @ IA : Research in the Age…

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Tonight: AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Decade Of TV News Archive Research

Kalev will be speaking tonight at the Internet Archive's annual gala on a decade of his collaborations with the Internet…

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Visual Explorer: Computer Chronicles 1982-2002 Archive Transcribed

Earlier this year in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we made available in the Visual Explorer the complete 1982-2002 archive…

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Last Week: 35th MINDS Conference Toronto: The Promise & Perils Of AI For Journalism: Lessons Learned From A Quarter-Century Of Using AI To Catalog The Planet Through News

It was an incredible honor to speak last week at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto! From the large language…

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This Week: AI @ IA : Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Decade Of TV News Archive Research

Kalev will be speaking at this week at the Internet Archive's annual gala on a decade of his collaborations with…

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Next Week: Data For Peace 2023: Using Data And AI For Conflict Early Warning And Crisis Prevention

Kalev will be speaking next Monday on the afternoon plenary panel at the Data For Peace 2023 conference on "Using…

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Visual Explorer: World War II US War Department Films Selection Transcribed

This past February we unveiled a small collection of US War Department films from World War II in the Visual Explorer's interface…

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Coming Soon: 11M Minutes Transcribed Through Google's Chirp

Our massive collaborative initiative to transcribe the entire Internet Archive Television News Archive has reached 11 million minutes of transcribed…

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Today: 35th MINDS Conference Toronto: The Promise & Perils Of AI For Journalism: Lessons Learned From A Quarter-Century Of Using AI To Catalog The Planet Through News

Kalev is speaking today at the 35th MINDS Conference in Toronto! From the large language models at the vanguard of…

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ZeroHedge: Media Coverage Of Ukraine War Dwindles

ZeroHedge republishes Kalev's RealClearPolitics article on media coverage of Ukraine. Read The Full Article.

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Media Coverage of Ukraine War Dwindles

As the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on more than a year and a half after the initial invasion, U.S. economic and…

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Generative AI Experiments: At-Scale TV News Summarization Experiments Coming Soon

Yesterday we explored summarizing an entire day of Russian television news using Google's new 32K PaLM LLM model. Stay tuned…