January 6th Hearings Attract Substantial But Waning TV News Onscreen Textual Mentions
The congressional January 6th hearings have attracted substantial television news attention, with the timeline below showing the total seconds of…
TV News Visual Explorer: Exploring The Visual Narratives Of Personality-Driven Programming
This past April, the New York Times published a four-part series that deeply examined the entire run of the Tucker…
MediaFutures Project Update: Edit Wars: Data-Based Art Research On Russian Propaganda
This fascinating project uses the Global Difference Graph to explore the fluid Russian media landscape. Learn More.
TV News Visual Explorer: 24 Channels From 7 Countries In 4 Languages Spanning A Decade
With the addition of Bloomberg Television yesterday, the TV Visual Explorer now spans 24 channels from 7 countries in 4 languages,…
Midterm Mentions Remain Muted With Just Four Months To Go
With just four months until what many in the media and punditry are predicting will be a party shift in…
How Television News Has Covered "Transitory" Inflation
The notion of "transitory" inflation burst into the media landscape in May 2021 as the US Government sought to reassure…
TV News Is Talking More About "Prices" Than It Has The Past Decade
Mentions of "prices" on television news peaked in March 2012 and have remained relatively low over the past decade, with…
TV Visual Explorer: Using Still Image Video Surrogates With Video AI
Last month we explored what Google's Cloud Video API sees in an episode of Russian television's "Antifake" show. In that…
TV Visual Explorer: Bloomberg Television 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…
Behind The Scenes: Decoupling Ingest From Processing
Always remember that once data is ingested into the cloud, it can be made available anywhere at any scale. Thus,…
Mentions Of China's "Zero Covid" Efforts Fade From American Television News
Mentions of China's ambitious "zero covid" efforts peaked in December last year and again from March to May of this…
Behind The Scenes: Lessons Learned From Ingesting Large Datasets Into The Cloud
Given GDELT's immense global scale and footprint that extends across nearly every GCP data center worldwide, we are frequently asked…
MSNBC Leads "Minority Rule" Mentions With Steady Coverage Since September 2020
The phrase "minority rule" has appeared on American television news over the past decade, but really took off on MSNBC…
Luba Kassova: It Is 132 Days Since Russia Invaded Ukraine. But Who's Counting?
Luba Kassova explores media coverage of Ukraine to date. Read The Full Article.
TV Visual Explorer: CNBC 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…
As Rental Prices Rise Television News Mentions Edge Up Again
As rental prices continue to increase across the nation, mentions of them on television news have been increasing since a…
Fox News Aired Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony, But That's About It
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines how television news has covered Cassidy Hutchinson's January 6th testimony. Read The Full Article.
TV Visual Explorer: Fox Business 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…
Abortion Is Rapidly Fading From The Media
Mentions of abortion are fading from the media landscape at a remarkably rapid and truncated clip, fading considerably faster than…
Ukraine Continues To Fade From The News As The War Grinds On
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on, the conflict is steadily fading from the news, both US and international…
TV Visual Explorer: A Look Back: Justice Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings On CNN In July 2009
With the new availability of the CNN, MSNBC and Fox News July 2009 to present historical backfile in the TV…
Fox News Continues To Lead With Free Speech And First Amendment Mentions
Over the past decade, Fox News has led its peers CNN and MSNBC in mentions of free speech and the…
Mortgage Mentions Rising On Business TV News Channels But At Historic Lows On General News Channels
Even as rising mortgage rates raise affordability concerns, they aren't attracting outsized media attention. The timeline below shows total monthly…
Economic Uncertainty (EU) Score Remains Low And Not Rising Substantially
Economic uncertainty is a closely watched metric by economists. Scholars like Alexopoulos & Cohen and Baker, Bloom & Davis have constructed simple narrative indicators…