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Pablo Rey MazónVisiting Scientist, Center for Civic Media. MIT Medialab

Contact: pablo@meipi.comMore 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

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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