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Tag: 2020 election

Reopen schools narrative spreads across shadowy local news sites

Americans are divided about reopening schools this fall and polls show that this disagreement falls along party lines with Republicans more in favor of children returning to schools. Which is […]

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker

How news media are setting the 2020 election agenda: Chasing daily controversies, often burying policy

It’s a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about? Or does political journalism really set the agenda by selecting stories […]

November 11, 2019November 13, 2019 Aleszu Bajak, Dan Kennedy and John Wihbey Election Tracker

Six ways you might consider visualizing political issues and ideologies this election

With the 2020 election around the corner, we’re on the look out for new ways news outlets, advocacy groups and other organizations are visualizing political stances and voter opinions. Below […]

October 8, 2019October 8, 2019 Ian Toman Roundups

Gabbard, Booker and Biden get most negative media coverage over last four months

Tulsi Gabbard, Cory Booker and Joe Biden are the 2020 Democratic candidates receiving the most negative media coverage, according to updated findings from the Storybench Election Coverage Tracker at Northeastern […]

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker

Exploring 2020 demographic targeting and attack ads using Facebook’s Ad Library

Facebook’s Ad Library was criticized this week by several sources quoted in The New York Times for being “effectively useless as a way to comprehensively track political advertising.” Those sources […]

July 26, 2019July 30, 2019 Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker

Men are writing two-thirds of national stories about the 2020 presidential race

Men are writing the vast majority of national online news stories about the 2020 presidential primary, according to a preliminary byline count performed by the Storybench Election Coverage Tracker at […]

June 6, 2019July 11, 2019 Meg Heckman Election Tracker

History repeats itself as women on the 2020 campaign trail receive more negative coverage than their male peers

The women running for president in 2020 continue to receive more negative press than their male peers, according to updated and expanded findings from the Storybench Election Coverage Tracker at […]

June 6, 2019June 7, 2019 Meg Heckman and Aleszu Bajak Election Tracker

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
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