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Three weeks ago, MEAG had the privilege of bringing together researchers, journalists, and technologists from around the world for the New(s) Knowledge Symposium: from research to intelligence.
A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue!
A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue!
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Three weeks ago, MEAG had the privilege of bringing together researchers, journalists, and technologists from around the world for the New(s) Knowledge Symposium: from research to intelligence.
A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue!
A big thank-you to all of our speakers and participant for contributing ideas, data, and dialogue!
Research from Our World in Data using Media Cloud reveals a striking gap between headlines and reality. In their article it's revealed that the diseases that kill the most Americans get only a fraction of the attention given to violence.
Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dciRjPS
Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dciRjPS
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October 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Research from Our World in Data using Media Cloud reveals a striking gap between headlines and reality. In their article it's revealed that the diseases that kill the most Americans get only a fraction of the attention given to violence.
Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dciRjPS
Read the full piece here: lnkd.in/dciRjPS
Excited to share our new research, “The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat,” will be presented at AoIR2025 this week! 🎉 Click here to learn more: lnkd.in/e5vJrtaa
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Excited to share our new research, “The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival: Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat,” will be presented at AoIR2025 this week! 🎉 Click here to learn more: lnkd.in/e5vJrtaa
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Another insightful news analysis from FAIR using @mediacloud.bsky.social. This time digging into types of coverage on the genocide in Gaza: "Substandard coverage distorts and conceals the gravity of the crisis" fair.org/home/more-co...
More Coverage of Gaza Starvation Did Not Necessarily Mean Deeper Coverage
Even when outlets addressed the consequences of food deprivation, reporting still fell short of holding Israel responsible for deliberately inducing starvation.
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September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Another insightful news analysis from FAIR using @mediacloud.bsky.social. This time digging into types of coverage on the genocide in Gaza: "Substandard coverage distorts and conceals the gravity of the crisis" fair.org/home/more-co...
Media Cloud offers an array of collections that capture a wide range of voices from all across the globe. Our collections give researchers, journalists, and the general public access to powerful tools to understand the modern media landscape.
Here are a few highlights from our database:
Here are a few highlights from our database:
September 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Media Cloud offers an array of collections that capture a wide range of voices from all across the globe. Our collections give researchers, journalists, and the general public access to powerful tools to understand the modern media landscape.
Here are a few highlights from our database:
Here are a few highlights from our database:
Exciting update! Users can now search for content as far back as 2014 in our database.
Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org
Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Exciting update! Users can now search for content as far back as 2014 in our database.
Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org
Explore news coverage from across the globe at mediacloud.org
We're pleased to share our latest scholarly publication, coauthored with @Code4Africa -- a journal article exploring news as signal on innovations in healthcare R&D in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Check it out in the African Journal of Information and Communication:
Healthcare research and development (R&D) as reflected in digital news: Analysis from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa | The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC)
This academic peer-reviewed journal is an open access, peer reviewed, journal which explores electronic and digital ecosystems that facilitate information, communication, innovation and…
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January 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We're pleased to share our latest scholarly publication, coauthored with @Code4Africa -- a journal article exploring news as signal on innovations in healthcare R&D in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Check it out in the African Journal of Information and Communication:
In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism reported on a network of 450 sites posing as local or business news publications. They promote partisan talking points and collect user data. Media Cloud turned this into a collection of sources that you can search: https://buff.ly/41G3I8r.
December 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
In December 2019, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism reported on a network of 450 sites posing as local or business news publications. They promote partisan talking points and collect user data. Media Cloud turned this into a collection of sources that you can search: https://buff.ly/41G3I8r.
CGIAR used Media Cloud to create dashboards that provide snapshots of global conversations of food insecurity and climate security, based on social media and news coverage. Read about these projects here: https://buff.ly/4iFkGtJ #climate #foodsecurity
Research | CGIAR's dashboards provide a snapshot of global food and climate security
GCIAR used Media Cloud to create tools to aid in understanding food and climate security patterns.
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December 19, 2024 at 5:00 PM
CGIAR used Media Cloud to create dashboards that provide snapshots of global conversations of food insecurity and climate security, based on social media and news coverage. Read about these projects here: https://buff.ly/4iFkGtJ #climate #foodsecurity
At the start of December, Emily Boardman Ndulue, MEAG Senior Researcher at Media Cloud, and Amanda Strydom, Senior Program Manager at Code for Africa’s CivicSignal, co-led a workshop for journalists, researchers and activists about how to use CivicSignal for media analysis:
CivicSignal
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December 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
At the start of December, Emily Boardman Ndulue, MEAG Senior Researcher at Media Cloud, and Amanda Strydom, Senior Program Manager at Code for Africa’s CivicSignal, co-led a workshop for journalists, researchers and activists about how to use CivicSignal for media analysis:
A 2024 study used Media Cloud to explore the digital news landscape of prescription drugs in Latin America. It found that over 62% of posts lacked neutrality: promotional content overshadowed transparent, balanced information about drugs' risks and benefits. Read the study:
Latin America’s Digital Media Ecosystem: An Analysis of Prescription Drug Coverage and Diffusion
Many countries ban direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs due to potential health and financial risks. However, the internet and social media now offer new ways for…
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December 16, 2024 at 8:36 PM
A 2024 study used Media Cloud to explore the digital news landscape of prescription drugs in Latin America. It found that over 62% of posts lacked neutrality: promotional content overshadowed transparent, balanced information about drugs' risks and benefits. Read the study:
Compare coverage on a topic across partisanship or across the world by clicking the three dots at the top of your query.
December 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Compare coverage on a topic across partisanship or across the world by clicking the three dots at the top of your query.
Troubleshooting unexpected results: if unrelated terms result from your search, you can add these to your query. Related articles will appear in “Sample Articles,” allowing you to pinpoint why these terms appear. You can negate them from your query using the AND NOT syntax.
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Troubleshooting unexpected results: if unrelated terms result from your search, you can add these to your query. Related articles will appear in “Sample Articles,” allowing you to pinpoint why these terms appear. You can negate them from your query using the AND NOT syntax.
Conducting proximity searches: Using Advanced Mode, the query “weather hot”~15 will find articles where “weather” and “hot” are within 15 words of each other. You can include as many words as desired in the quotation marks of this search.
December 4, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Conducting proximity searches: Using Advanced Mode, the query “weather hot”~15 will find articles where “weather” and “hot” are within 15 words of each other. You can include as many words as desired in the quotation marks of this search.
Sample stories from a query search of "COP29" showed that far-left coverage on the event largely focused on economics. Based on this sample, far-right coverage framed the event as a political scheme or as ineffective. Both partisan groups mention Trump in their coverage. #news
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Sample stories from a query search of "COP29" showed that far-left coverage on the event largely focused on economics. Based on this sample, far-right coverage framed the event as a political scheme or as ineffective. Both partisan groups mention Trump in their coverage. #news
A COP29 query search of six English-speaking countries reveals that Kenya focused the greatest percentage of its news media on the event, followed by South Africa and the Philippines. The U.S. published the most stories on COP29, but the event made up a small portion of its news stories.
November 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM
A COP29 query search of six English-speaking countries reveals that Kenya focused the greatest percentage of its news media on the event, followed by South Africa and the Philippines. The U.S. published the most stories on COP29, but the event made up a small portion of its news stories.
Rahul Bhargava, Media Cloud Technical Lead and Principal Investigator, provides an overview of his new research, "Pre-print: Comparing Author Extraction Libraries," about analyzing and evaluating multilingual media. Read about it on our blog: https://buff.ly/4fQw2ZI #research
Research | Pre-print: Comparing Author Extraction Libraries
Rahul Bhargava reveals new research relating to multilingual media analysis.
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November 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Rahul Bhargava, Media Cloud Technical Lead and Principal Investigator, provides an overview of his new research, "Pre-print: Comparing Author Extraction Libraries," about analyzing and evaluating multilingual media. Read about it on our blog: https://buff.ly/4fQw2ZI #research
Coverage of projections for the presidential election was examined using the Media Cloud search tool. The day before election night, the far right peaked in its attention to election projections, while coverage of this topic by other partisan groups dipped.
November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Coverage of projections for the presidential election was examined using the Media Cloud search tool. The day before election night, the far right peaked in its attention to election projections, while coverage of this topic by other partisan groups dipped.
Our Story Guide is active! Learn about how we keep stories in our news archive by navigating to the Documentation page on our website, through the Tools tab, or visit the page here: https://buff.ly/4hTzNzp
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Our Story Guide is active! Learn about how we keep stories in our news archive by navigating to the Documentation page on our website, through the Tools tab, or visit the page here: https://buff.ly/4hTzNzp
“Top Language” and “Top Sources” query results are no longer experimental. This means we are confident that your query results are representative of our data.
November 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
“Top Language” and “Top Sources” query results are no longer experimental. This means we are confident that your query results are representative of our data.
We’ve temporarily reduced the weekly number of queries that a user can run to help our servers, which are bending under straining. This shouldn’t impact the majority of users. Email us if you need to increase your quota.
November 18, 2024 at 1:59 PM
We’ve temporarily reduced the weekly number of queries that a user can run to help our servers, which are bending under straining. This shouldn’t impact the majority of users. Email us if you need to increase your quota.
“Managed collections” are ready—these are unchanging collections managed by Media Cloud, composed of sources that we have extensively reviewed and, in some cases, worked with experts to update.
November 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
“Managed collections” are ready—these are unchanging collections managed by Media Cloud, composed of sources that we have extensively reviewed and, in some cases, worked with experts to update.
Users can now search as far back as June 2020 to gain insight into past news media coverage patterns and framing. Try entering a query using our search tool: https://buff.ly/4fNECZk
November 13, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Users can now search as far back as June 2020 to gain insight into past news media coverage patterns and framing. Try entering a query using our search tool: https://buff.ly/4fNECZk
More information about your sources is available! Now, metadata is displayed on a source’s page. You can navigate here by starting at the Directory page, picking a collection and then clicking on a source.
November 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
More information about your sources is available! Now, metadata is displayed on a source’s page. You can navigate here by starting at the Directory page, picking a collection and then clicking on a source.
Now, after entering a query, you can use the Attention Over Time feature to view your results by day, week or month. This allows you to see how much your media collection published about your topic of interest.
November 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Now, after entering a query, you can use the Attention Over Time feature to view your results by day, week or month. This allows you to see how much your media collection published about your topic of interest.