Front page Analysis. Background+Tool UI
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Pablo Rey MazónVisiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab
Contact: [email protected] info and all the images at:
numeroteca.org/cat/frontpage-newspaper/civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages
Analyzing newspapers' front pages vs Twitter
May 15th, 2011May 15th, 2011 MadridMadrid
May 16th, 2011
May 16th, 2011
May 17th, 2011
May 17th, 2011May 17th, 2011
May 18th, 2011
May 18th, 2011May 18th, 2011
May 19th, 2011
May 19th, 2011
Evolution of news in time
Haiti earthquake. January, 2010
Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010
Spanish – US Newspapers & Japanese Tsunami
Number of articles in the front page of main Spanish and US newspapers
SpainEl País 7.5El Mundo 7.5ABC 4.5La Vanguardia 5.1La Razón 4.9Público 4.6Average 5.7
USAWSJ 34.8 (28.0 short-small headlines)The Washington post 13.1The New York times 15.5The Boston Globe 17.7 (9.2 short-small headlines)USA Today 13.0Los Ángeles Times 9.7Average 17.3 (11.1 )
Compare simultaneous news evolution in time
Arab Spring: Egipt, Lybia, Syria. January, 2011
15M Movement– DSK detention. Spanish newspapersMay, 2011
Compare asynchronous news evolution in time
Haiti Earthquake – Japanese Tsunami.
Semantic analysis of news content in front pages
Compare with other media
-TV Broadcast transcripts-Radio transcripts-Web front pages-Twitter
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