In An Ever More Surveilled World We're Not Talking About Surveillance Any More Than We Used To
In an ever more surveilled world, it is interesting to note that media coverage of "surveillance" is not increasing and,…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
A Full 70% Of Trump Coverage The Last Two Weeks Focused On Ukraine, Impeachment Or Syria
Donald Trump's presidency the last two weeks has been defined by three major stories: Ukraine, impeachment and his greenlighting of…
The Specter Of A No-Deal Brexit Back In The News
Last month the percentage of both BBC News London and worldwide online news coverage of Brexit that mentioned the so-called…
Media's Trump Focus Shifts From Impeachment To Syria
It seems the media's focus on President Trump has shifted over the last few days, with coverage of impeachment waning…
Extinction Rebellion's Rise Coincides With Steadily Increasing Media Coverage Of Climate Change
Media coverage of climate change continues its upwards trend over 2019. Interestingly, while it begins to take off in July…
'Extinction Rebellion' Continues To Garner Headlines
Just under a year since it first rocketed into the media spotlight, the Extinction Rebellion anti-climate change movement continues to…
BBVA: Geo-World: Conflict & Protest September 2019
BBVA's September 2019 Geo-World: Conflict & Protest report summarizes the state of global conflict and civil unrest. Read The Full…
Announcing The Global Entity Graph (GEG) Neural Sentiment Dataset
UPDATE (1/21/2020): The GEG neural sentiment scores are now integrated into the core GEG dataset instead of a separate dataset….
FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.
Announcing The Global Entity Graph (GEG) And A New 11 Billion Entity Dataset
Today we are tremendously excited to unveil the GDELT Global Entity Graph (GEG) and its inaugural release GEG-GCNLAPI, a dataset…
Global Media Attention Returning To The Hong Kong Protests
After more than a month of steadily declining media interest in the Hong Kong protests, it seems September 29th was…
Trump's Election Brought 'Deep State' Into The Media Lexicon
It seems the election of Donald Trump brought a new term into the media lexicon: "deep state." From the month…
Trump's Economic Message Gets Scant Play on TV News
President Trump made the economy one of the centerpieces of his 2016 campaign, but to what degree has the relatively…
Bronx Zoo Lion Taunting Through The Eyes Of The Media
The episode earlier this week of a woman climbing over a safety barrier at the Bronx Zoo to taunt a…
IJF: Forecasting Election Results By Studying Brand Importance In Online News
This paper in the International Journal of Forecasting by Andrea Fronzetti Colladon explores using the GKG for political forecasting: This…
New York Times: Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?
The New York Times' look at the 2020 Democratic field uses the TV Explorer to examine media coverage of the…
We're Still Talking About Vaccination
Since February 2015 television news has been steadily continuing its coverage of vaccination. The timeline below shows the percentage of…
Announcing The WEB-NGRAM Character Ngram Datasets
In addition to the 142 languages contained in the word-based WEB-NGRAM dataset announced earlier this week, GDELT monitors an additional…
FiveThirtyEight: Significant Digits For Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019
FiveThirtyEight briefly explores just how dominant Biden became in coverage of the 2020 race last week. Read The Full Article.
We're Steadily Talking Less About Refugees
Over the past three years we've steadily talked less about refugees, with mentions in 2019 remaining relatively constant though slowly…
Hong Kong Protests Almost Overshadow Chinese Anniversary Celebrations
As China hoped to turn the world's gaze to its 70th anniversary celebrations, unrest in Hong Kong upstaged the carefully…
WashPost: Government-By-Conspiracy-Theory Rides Again
The Washington Post's Philip Bump compares Fox News' worldview to that of CNN and MSNBC. Read The Full Article.
FiveThirtyEight: On Fox, Trump Is Not At The Center Of The Ukraine Story
FiveThirtyEight looks at the framing of the Ukraine story across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Includes a fascinating analysis using…