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PageOneXAnalyzing Newspaper Front Pagespageonex.com
Oct. 16th 2012Movement/Media Research and Action Project’s (MRAP). Boston College
Pablo Rey Mazónprey@mit.edunumeroteca.org@numeroteca
How I started coding front pages?How I started coding front pages?
May 15th, 2011May 15th, 2011 MadridMadrid
May 16th, 2011
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May 17th, 2011May 17th, 2011
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May 18th, 2011May 18th, 2011
May 19th, 2011
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May 23th, 2011
Analyzing front pages is a Shortcut
Newspapers + Twitter
Visual Quantitative analysis
vs
Visual approach to quantitative analysis
Newspapers + Twitter + % percentage of surface
Adding cualitative analysis
Information flows rapidly back and forth between SNS and mass media.
Occupy movement Newspapers coverage Twitter
Show me the raw data!
News evolution in time
Haiti earthquake. January, 2010
Japanese Tsunami. January, 2010
Using percentage to compare
% 125cm²
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)
Period of 21 days, May 15th - June 4th 2011.
halfway there…
Spanish US Newspapers. Japanese Tsunami 2011
Two countriesCoverage comparison
halfway there…
Spanish US Newspapers. Japanese Tsunami 2011
Two countriesCoverage comparison
11
News collisionWar in Lybia vs Tsunami
One at a time
11
Compare simultaneous news evolution in time
Arab Spring CoverageEgypt Lybia
15M Movement– Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrest. Spanish newspapers. May, 2011
Compare asynchronous news evolution in time
Haiti Earthquake – Japanese Tsunami.
2 week rule?
ScrapingCoding Displaying
Code available at http://github.com/numeroteca/PageOneX-ruby
Test alpha version and more infohttp://pageonex.com
PageOneX.comOnline / Open Source / Distributed analysis
Scraping
Coding
Display
Number of related news / day
Trayvon Martin case.Tweets + Front pages + Signatures change.org
Add other media pieces
Tweets
Transcripts
Online Newspapers
http://bit.ly/analyzemediatools
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Pablo Rey Mazónprey@mit.edu
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