Who’s talking about what – See who’s talking about what across hundreds of news sources.
Imagine comparing the coverage of news feeds from approximately 350 sources (you choose), with granular date ranges (instead of last 24 hours, last week, last month, last year) plus, “…AND, OR, NOT and parenthesis in queries.” The interface shows co-occurring topics as well.
BBC New Labs did more than +1! a great idea, they implemented it and posted their code.
From the webpage:
Inspired by a concept created by Adam Ramsay, Zoe Blackler & Iain Collins at the Center for Investigative Reporting design sprint on Climate Change
Implementation by Iain Collins and Sylvia Tippmann, using data from the BBC News Labs Juicer | View Source
What conclusions would you draw from reports starting September 1, 2015 to date, “violence AND Israel?”
One story only illustrates the power of this tool to create comparisons between news sources. Drawing conclusions about news sources requires systematic study of sources across a range of stories. The ability to do precisely that has fallen into your lap.
I first saw this in a tweet by Nick Diakopoulos.