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Unemployment Numbers Versus Infection Numbers On Television News

An opinion piece in yesterday's Washington Post by Helaine Olen raised the fascinating question of whether television news outlets should…

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WashPost: Ingraham And Hannity Have Been Talking About Hydroxychloroquine Twice As Much As Any Other Show

The Washington Post's Philip Bump explores how coverage of a number of terms varies across media personalities. View The Full…

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Mentions Of Video Conferencing Soar

As the timeline below shows, mentions of video conferencing had two periods of increase. They began to soar in late…

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Television Explorer's Show Chart & Fox's Focus On Hydroxychloroquine

Last week we showed that Fox News has mentioned Hydroxychloroquine much more often than CNN or MSNBC. This raises the…

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TV 2.0 API Now Offers Breakdown By Show

The TV 2.0 API makes it possible to conduct advanced analytics over more than a decade of television news programming…

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Mentions Of Hiring Freezes Soar Starting In Early March

Mentions of hiring freezes began to soar starting in early March as companies across the world internalized the impact of…

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China Economic Times: GDELT Big Data To See The Change Of Global Epidemic Concern

An article in today's China Economic Times uses GDELT to explore global media reaction to the growing Covid-19 pandemic. Read…

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We're Talking More About Evictions But Less Than In 2011

Television news is talking more about evictions starting last month, but is still off from its 2011 peak. Live Version….

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New Humanitarian: Covid-19 Disruption To Egg Supply Before Passover In Israeli Headlines

New Humanitarian's Ben Parker has this fascinating graph of the density of discussion in Israeli media mentioning eggs. View The…

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Livemint: How Access To Facebook Stirs Protests

Livemint covers this study from last year on the relationship between Facebook usage and protest activity globally. Read The Full…

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Graphing Covid-19 Geographic News Timelines Using BigQuery

Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, its possible with a simple SQL query to visualize geographic timelines. For example,…

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HFM Virtual Symposium: Dirty Data: Cleaning, Mapping And Analyzing

Kalev will be speaking at HFM's Virtual Symposium alongside MayStreet's founder and CEO and the CTO of Crux Informatics on…

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An Animated Map Of Global Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto

How did news coverage of Covid-19 spread across the world? Using our massive new Covid-19 Geographic News Database, it takes…

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Governors Increasingly In The Spotlight On Television News

State governors are increasingly in the spotlight as many of the Covid-19 responses fall to states to implement. The timeline…

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One-Click Mapping Of Covid-19 News Coverage With BigQuery + Carto

How can you use the new Covid-19 Geographic News Database to map the locations mentioned in Covid-19 news coverage? With…

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Announcing A Massive New Geographic News Database Of The Locations Mentioned In Covid-19 News Coverage

Last month we created a map of the top locations on earth most commonly mentioned in worldwide online news coverage…

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BlueDot's December 31st Covid-19 Warning Matches NSC's Early Warning

Reuters' chronology of the early days of the US Government's response to Covid-19 includes this fascinating detail: "The [NSC] was…

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Global Mentions Of 'Rationing' Took Off At The Beginning Of March

Globally, online news mentions of rationing soared in early March. Live Version. Look back a decade through television news, mentions…

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Fauci And Birx Getting More Media Attention While CDC Fades

The CDC and its director unsurprisingly emerged as the early media go-to's of the Covid-19 pandemic, surging into the headlines…

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Covid-19 Pandemic Massively Outpacing Coverage Of Syria, Locusts Or Ebola

American television news stations have run wall-to-wall coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, using data from the Internet Archive's Television…

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African Locust Swarms Receive Little Attention

As locust swarms devastate agricultural production and livelihoods across Africa, the media has paid little attention. American television news, as…

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Fox News Continues To Draw Attention To Hydroxychloroquine

The White House popularized Hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for Covid-19, despite minimal evidence of its efficacy. On television news,…

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Comparing News And Google Trends Search Volume For California Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies

Using a forthcoming extended version of the geographic database underlying the GEO 2.0 API, we wanted to explore how news…

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New York Post Editorial Board: Pandemic Watch: No, Docs Weren't Prophets

The New York Post's Editorial Board cited Kalev's RealClearPolitics analysis of the chronology of public statements about Covid-19 by national…