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Experiments With Transcription & Translation Of Russian Television News

Last week, RT Editor-In-Chief Margarita Simonyan discussed the possibility of Russia's invasion of Ukraine leading to nuclear war in a…

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GIJN: Data Journalism Top 10

Today's Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) "Data Journalism Top 10" roundup includes the New York Times analysis of Tucker Carlson's…

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Experiments With Television News: Multilingual Transcription

How well does current state of the art machine speech recognition (ASR) perform across the world's languages? We are embarking…

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American Television News On Russian Television News: Tucker Carlson

Last week the New York Times unveiled a massive four part series exploring the evolution of Tucker Carlson's show. It…

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American Television News On Russian Television News: CNN, Bucha And "Fake News"

How did Russian television news frame the killing of civilians in Bucha? The sequence at the top of this page…

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More TV News Experiments: Applying AI Visual Analysis & OCR To Television News Via Non-Consumptive Thumbnail Sheets

Could thumbnail contact sheets offer the possibility of non-consumptive visual assessment of television news, such as applying at-scale AI visual…

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More Experiments With Visually Previewing The News: How The World Covered Covid-19 In May 2020

Last week we demonstrated how simple 4fps thumbnail contact sheets offer an incredibly powerful way of previewing unenriched television news,…

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Media Matters: If You Are In Business With Fox News, You Are On The Hook For Its White Nationalism

Media Matters references the New York Times' Tucker Carlson analysis. Read The Full Article.

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More Experiments With Visually Previewing The News: 1TV, NTV & RUSSIA1

Last week we demonstrated how simple 4fps thumbnail contact sheets offer an incredibly powerful way of previewing unenriched television news….

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NYTimes: How 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Fuels Extremism And Fear

This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…

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NYTimes: How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News – And Became Trump's Heir

This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…

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NYTimes: How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear To Conquer Cable

This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…

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NYTimes: What To Know About Tucker Carlson's Rise

This massive New York Times analysis of the Tucker Carlson show relied, in part, on television news coverage from the…

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Bookcases Became The Iconic Imagery Of Pandemic-Era Television News

Bookcases became one of the most iconic images of pandemic-era television news as television hosts and their guests were suddenly…

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Visually Surveying Unenriched Television News: Comparing Frame Sizes Across RUSSIA1

Earlier today we explored how thumbnail grids can be used to rapidly visually triage unenriched television news that lacks captioning,…

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Experiments With FFMPEG & Scene Detection To Explore The Parallel Universe Of Russian State Television Channel RUSSIA1

There are many approaches to exploring television news that includes textual annotation metadata, from closed captioning to OCR-able onscreen text…

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The Pandemic Pushed Crowds From Television News – The George Floyd Protests Brought Them Back

How often are crowds seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…

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Reuters: Inflation Narrative A 'Virus' And Policy Headache

A Reuters wire story reports on research using GDELT to examine media coverage of inflation. Read the Full Article.

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Fox News Shows Police Imagery Twice As Much As CNN

How often are police seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…

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Masks Were Mentioned But Not Seen On Television News

How often are masks seen on television news? The timeline below shows the total seconds of daily airtime since the start of…

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Video: Internet Archive: Library As Laboratory: Television As Data: Opening TV News For Deep Analysis And New Forms Of Interactive Search

The video of Kalev and Roger Macdonald's talk about how the ways in which the TV News Archive has become…

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Internet Archive Blog: Library As Laboratory: Television As Data: Opening TV News For Deep Analysis And New Forms Of Interactive Search

The Internet Archive blog has a new article about Kalev and Roger Macdonald's, talk about how the ways in which…

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Ukraine Continues To Fade On Television News

Ukraine continues to fade on television news. The timeline below shows total daily mentions of Ukraine across CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and…

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Can Social Media Combat Misinformation And Still Grow?

As social media platforms increasingly emphasize content moderation, “healthy conversations,” and combatting misinformation, the question of how such efforts will…