"Herd Immunity" Mentions Resume On Television News
Since mid-March, discussion of "herd immunity" has ebbed and flowed on television news, with an initial wave lasting until the…
Bitcoin Mentions Surge On Business Television News
Mentions of bitcoin on business television news channels Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business began picking up in May 2017 and…
Using The Global Embedded Metadata Graph To Explore Trends In JSON-LD
How can we use the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph to explore some of the trends in metadata usage in a day…
Using The Global Embedded Metadata Graph To Explore Trends In META Tags
How can we use the new Global Embedded Metadata Graph to explore some of the trends in metadata usage in…
Announcing The Global Embedded Metadata Graph
We are enormously excited today to announce the debut of the Global Embedded Metadata Graph (GEMG), which records the hidden…
The Ethiopian Conflict On Television News: US Versus The World
The timeline below plots the weekly airtime covering the Ethiopian conflict across a selection of US and international television channels…
Ethiopian Conflict Receives Little US Television News Attention
As fighting in Ethiopia intensifies, the timeline below shows it is receiving little mention on American television news. In fact, …
"Conspiracy" Mentions Surge On Television News In Trump Era
The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning the words "conspiracy" or…
CNN's Covid-19 Dashboard Back To March Airtime Levels
Since its debut towards the end of March, CNN's Covid-19 dashboard has been regularly displaced by other news this year….
Fauci Fades From Television News Since Election
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a fixture of television news coverage of the pandemic, but since the election his star…
Increasing Stratification Of "Pandemic" Mentions On Television News
In the early days of Covid-19's spread this year, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all used the word "pandemic" in…
"President Elect" Trump Versus Biden On Television News
When Donald Trump became president-elect, Fox News used the title for him the most, followed by CNN and MSNBC, while…
Biden Equal To Trump In Television News Mentions
The timeline below tracks the combined daily percentage of airtime across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News mentioning either Biden or…
META Tag Scanning Of Global News Media Coming To GDELT 3.0
Last week we announced that we would be adding JSON-LD extraction to our GDELT 3.0 crawlers as part of a…
Comparing The 2009-2020 Readability Scores Of CNN, MSNBC And Fox News
Yesterday we unveiled a massive new dataset of television news readability scores for 23 stations spanning portions of the past…
The Methodological Challenges Of Interpreting Readability Scores For Spoken Word Television News Transcripts
Yesterday we announced the new Television News Readability Scores Dataset using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. One…
Television News Readability Scores Dataset 2009-2020
UPDATE: See this deep dive on the influence of captioner shifts and the difference between transcripts and captioning in results….
A Look At Television News' On-Air Covid-19 Dashboards
How are television news channels communicating the pandemic to their viewers? CNN's live Covid-19 tracking dashboard is perhaps the most…
Television News Covid-19 Mentions Not Rising
While public health officials warn of the potential for a Thanksgiving superspreader event, the percentage of daily airtime on television…
Biden Mentions At Around 10% Of Television News
Despite being the president-elect, mentions of Joe Biden on television news fell sharply since he was declared the winner and…
Global Relationship Graph Reaches 280 Million Verb Clauses
The Global Relationship Graph's Verb-Centered NGram pilot that debuted on October 28th has reached 280 million verb clauses! Each of…
WashPost: Trump Will Soon Leave The White House. How Long Before He Stops Dominating The Conversation?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at just how large Trump's shadow looms over the media landscape. Read The Full…
Evaluating The "Readability" Of Online COVID-19 News Coverage
Using our massive new dataset of readability scores of worldwide English language news coverage of 2020, how might we evaluate…
Readability Scores Dataset For Worldwide Online News Coverage in 2020
As we seek new ways of assessing and understanding how news conveys the world each day, one thread of our…