Front page Analysis. Background+Tool UI
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This document analyzes and compares how different newspapers covered major world events like natural disasters and political uprisings on their front pages versus on Twitter. It finds that US papers tended to have more articles and shorter headlines compared to Spanish papers. It also compares the asynchronous and synchronous evolution of news coverage over time between different media sources. Next steps discussed include developing tools for crowdsourced analysis, scraping data directly from newspaper sites, integrating more variables, and combining coverage with other media streams like Twitter.
Front page Analysis. Background+Tool UI
- 1. Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter Pablo Rey Mazón Visiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab More info and all the images at: Contact: pablo@meipi.com numeroteca.org/cat/frontpage-newspaper/ civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages
- 2. May 15th, 2011 Madrid
- 10. May 19th, 2011
- 17. Evolution of news in time Haiti earthquake. January, 2010
- 18. Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010
- 19. Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami
- 20. Number of articles in the front page of main Spanish and US newspapers Spain El País 7.5 El Mundo 7.5 ABC 4.5 La Vanguardia 5.1 La Razón 4.9 Público 4.6 Average 5.7 USA WSJ 34.8 (28.0 short-small headlines) The Washington post 13.1 The New York times 15.5 The Boston Globe 17.7 (9.2 short-small headlines) USA Today 13.0 Los Ángeles Times 9.7 Average 17.3 (11.1 )
- 21. Compare simultaneous news evolution in time Arab Spring: Egipt, Lybia, Syria. January, 2011
- 22. 15M Movement– DSK detention. Spanish newspapersMay, 2011
- 23. Compare asynchronous news evolution in time Haiti Earthquake – Japanese Tsunami.
- 24. Semantic analysis of news content in front pages
- 26. Compare with other media -TV Broadcast transcripts -Radio transcripts -Web front pages -Twitter
- 28. Next steps -Tool for crowdsourced analysis: PageOne -Scraping from original newspaper sites -Interactive design -Use more variables: position, number of words, image, headline size, frame of the news, content. -Integration with other news streams and analytic tools: TV broadcast, Media Meter, Twitter