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Visual Explorer: Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) To Help Scholars And Journalists Examine Government Narratives

In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, today we have added the Iranian government channel Islamic Republic of…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Rare Voice Of Reason Against Russian First Use Of Nuclear Weapons Or Attacking NATO Depots

Retired Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky, Chair of the PIR Center and from 2002–2009 Head of the International Treaty Directorate, Deputy Head…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: An American Priest Who Fled The US For Russia & Bonus Story Of American Satanism

This past Sunday, the state-sponsored Russia-24 TV network aired a 42-minute program featuring an American Orthodox priest, Joseph Gleason, who…

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Google Developer Expert (GDE) 2023

It is a tremendous honor to be a Cloud GDE (Google Developer Expert) since 2015, one of just 14 Cloud…

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WashPost: How Timing And Scale Varied In The Classified Document Discoveries

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how cable news covered the Trump, Biden and Pence classified documents stories. Read The…

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Visual Explorer: An Early Experiment With Transcribing & Translating A Persian-Language Iran International Broadcast

To explore how well our automated transcription + translation workflow would work on Persian-language Iranian broadcasts, we selected an Iran…

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FiveThirtyEight: Is It Fair To Compare Biden's And Trump’s Classified Documents Scandals?

FiveThirtyEight examines media coverage of the Trump, Biden and Pence classified documents stories. Read The Full Article.

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CNS Research Showcase: Television As Data: Opening The Internet Archive’s Two Decade Archive Of Global Television News Spanning 50 Countries To Journalists & Scholars Through AI, Analytics, Search & Visualization

Kalev will be speaking at Indiana University's Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) today on GDELT's collaborations with the Internet…

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Visual Explorer: New Interface Improvements Including Full Channel & Show Name Display

We are making a number of interface improvements to the Visual Explorer as we prepare to launch some exciting new…

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Visual Explorer: New 3 Minute Playback Clips For PressTV & Iran International

Preview clips for PressTV and Iran International are now 3 minutes long, up from their original 30 second duration to…

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Visual Explorer: New 3 Minute Playback Clips For Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian TV News

We are excited to announce that as of today all broadcasts on the Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian channels will now…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV Runs Story On Vaping

While the invasion of Ukraine dominates Russian television news coverage, they find the time to cover a variety of other…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV Integrates Biden's Classified Documents Story Into Narratives

Russian television is finding ways of integrating the Biden classified documents story into throwaway mentions in otherwise unrelated coverage, such…

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Bilateral Relations And Exports: Evidence From Google Big Data

This paper investigates the effect of bilateral relations on exports using data from Google Global Data. It finds that bilateral…

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WashPost: Why 'Woke' Replaced 'Politically Correct'

The Washington Post's Philip Bump includes a timeline of how Fox News has covered topics from political correctness to critical…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV Takes Time To Cover Gina Lollobrigida Death

The death of Gina Lollobrigida this week did not garner the international outpouring associated with many celebrity passings, with CNN,…

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Video: STRATCOM Summit 2022 In Istanbul – English Edition

Kalev gave the opening talk at the incredible Stratcom Summit 2022 in Istanbul last month. Featuring a stage like no…

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The Visual Explorer & Contrasting The Narrative Landscapes Of Visual Storytelling Across The World

One of the most powerful aspects of the Visual Explorer is the way in which it makes it possible for…

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Visual Explorer: Iran International October 2022 – Present To Help Scholars And Journalists Examine Protest Narratives

Today we are excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive, coverage from Iran International…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Russian TV News Broadcasts Graphic Execution Of Ukrainian Soldiers In Donbass

Over the last several days, Russian television has broadcast graphic bodycam footage of what it describes as Russian soldiers confronting…

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Visual Explorer: New Navigation Interface Enhancements

You will notice several new navigation-related interface enhancements in the Visual Explorer as of this evening. In the main table…

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Visual Explorer: Iran International Coming Next Week

To aid journalists and scholars in understanding events in Iran, news coverage from Iran International will be joining the Visual…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Tucker Carlson Once Again Stars On Russian TV Covering Rice & Gates Op-Ed

Last Saturday Condoleezza Rice and Robert M. Gates published an op-ed in the Washington Post suggesting time was not on…

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Spinmeisters Of Russia: Putin Berates Manturov As Blame Game Intensifies

As the blame game intensifies in the Russian media, shifting responsibility for the failed invasion to subordinates, Putin yesterday very…