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Category: Research

Lance Oppenheim on heightened observational filmmaking and treating sources like performers

Twenty-four year-old filmmaker, Lance Oppenheim, stuck out like a sore thumb when he moved into America’s largest retirement community. He made his home amongst the retro decor, meticulously groomed golf […]

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Julia Carlin Reinventing Local TV News, Research

Using animation to transform the oral history of America

Humans have been telling stories since as far back as we can be traced. Storytelling has evolved from writings on cave walls to troubadours to modern day multimedia platforms that […]

July 20, 2021August 12, 2021 Dalia Sadaka Reinventing Local TV News, Research

We’re back! Reinventing Local TV News Project results published through RTDNA

Hello again, from the Reinventing Local TV News Project at Northeastern! It’s been four years since we started researching the future of local television news. It’s been quite a journey […]

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Pavithra Rajesh Reinventing Local TV News, Research

Analyzing the top links, domains, and keywords from 29 million tweets about Covid-19

Today, in collaboration with Lazer Lab at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, I published an interactive dashboard exploring the prevalence of Covid-19 news and misinformation on Twitter. The analysis is […]

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Aleszu Bajak Research

Pandemic news coverage is falling, but cases keep rising

The Covid-19 pandemic has yielded unprecedented media coverage. Over the last six months, no single topic has taken over online news quite like the coronavirus has. In fact, at its […]

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Rahul Bhargava Insights, Research

Northeastern teams up with two leading local TV news organizations and Stanton Foundation for video news research project

BOSTON, MA – Monday, July 1, 2019 – Media researchers at Northeastern University School of Journalism in Boston, Mass., will partner with two leading local news stations, WLS-TV/Chicago and WCVB-TV/Boston, […]

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Mike Beaudet and John Wihbey Reinventing Local TV News, Research

“Storytelling with R – featuring several digressions”

For Mara Averick, the words “R,” “tidyverse” and “ggplot” are all part of her regular vocabulary. For people with less knowledge about data science or the language R, those words […]

April 5, 2019April 9, 2019 Miska Salemann Research

Pete Buttigieg talks millennials and a call to action

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana who is exploring a run for president in 2020, spoke about important policies that might resonate with millennials during a discussion at […]

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 Nolan Piccola Research

Illuminating the road to 2020 through media coverage, candidate tweets and Google searches

April 1, 2019April 10, 2019 Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker, Research

Nate Silver talks elections and ways to improve polling data for 2020

Nate Silver, founder of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight, spoke about the importance of data during a talk at Northeastern University last week which formed part of a campus series […]

April 1, 2019April 2, 2019 Patrick Strohecker Research

Women on the 2020 campaign trail are being treated more negatively by the media

Update, April 24, 2019: This project is ongoing, and we are adding more data to the original analysis as we go. See new analysis of the full text of 1,397 […]

March 29, 2019April 24, 2019 Alexander Frandsen and Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker, Research

“Universities tarnish their admissions process because they use it to raise money”

It’s the latest college admission scandal: How the wealthy use bribes and connections and get their children into elite universities. But years before the current scandal, Dan Golden was writing […]

March 27, 2019April 10, 2019 Matt Levin Research

“You want to do stories that drive a conversation”

Adrian Walker, a metro columnist at the Boston Globe for the past 20 years, writes about Boston City Hall, the Statehouse, and local and state politics. He also contributed to […]

March 26, 2019April 10, 2019 Ziqi Gao Research

How political reporters from Politico, Bloomberg, NBC and CBS are covering the Trump Administration

President Donald Trump hates the media. Or, at least, that’s how it appears. How else could you justify his insistent attacks on the fourth estate, calling it “fake news” and […]

March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Patrick Strohecker Research

“What can artificial intelligence teach us about fairness?”

Artificial intelligence is becoming a central part of people’s lives, even if they don’t realize it. So many everyday functions have an artificial intelligence component – from auto-correct on text […]

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Andres Pinedo Research

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