Tag: media cloud
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 […]
In the effort to cover impeachment inquiry, media ignores 2020 candidates
There are less than two weeks until the next Democratic debate and mainstream media outlets have seemed to send nearly every reporter to cover the impeachment inquiry at the expense […]
What issues are 2020 candidates being mentioned with in the media?
Health care is a top concern among voters. That’s according to a recent poll of 2,000 Americans where respondents across age, gender and party lines ranked health care as the […]
Illuminating the road to 2020 through media coverage, candidate tweets and Google searches
Aleszu Bajak Storybench’s editor is Aleszu Bajak, a science journalist and former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He is an alum of Science Friday, the founder of LatinAmericanScience.org, and […]
Did President Trump’s tweets about the NFL overshadow larger news stories? A Media Cloud analysis
Despite raking in hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets, President Donald Trump’s tweets about black football players kneeling during the national anthem did not overshadow larger news stories since […]
Vice’s Alex Thompson talks 2016 election theatrics
Alex Thompson’s ticket to the grandest show of 2016 came with a VIP pass to the inside of a jail cell. Thompson, a reporter for VICE News who covered last […]