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.
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
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 )
26. Compare with other media
-TV Broadcast transcripts
-Radio transcripts
-Web front pages
-Twitter
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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