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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!
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 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
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Explore all of our collections at mediacloud.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:42 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
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 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.
December 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
See a missing source in our coverage of your region? We just added a new “Contributor” user type to allow trusted partners to help maintain and manage our collections of sources.
November 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM
A Media Cloud exploration from this week found that nearly one in three stories from left-leaning sources that discussed Harris also mentioned “Black.” Right-leaning coverage was the next most focused on this. Read the full breakdown on our blog: https://buff.ly/3YOn0Xm
November 4, 2024 at 5:00 PM
This week, an exploration into coverage of Kamala Harris highlighted unique key words that often appear in the headlines of partisan media: on the left, “Project 2025” and “weird" were common, and on the right, “illegal” and “radical." Read our full findings on our blog:
https://buff.ly/3YOn0Xm
November 1, 2024 at 7:10 PM