What can be learned from seeing a set of article locations on a map?

October 19, 2020

This is a screen grab of a list of questions from the Brown collaboration. It reads: How does local news coverage lay out across a region? If there are gaps, how can they be filled? Should they be? Does the sentiment, length, or frequency of local news coverage vary by geography? If so, what might the underlying reasons be? Are there tools that can be built to solve any issues that the map may uncover? Are there ways to provide automatic local angles to national stories? What types of geography exist in news? Points, lines, polygons? How are stories with various locations evaluated and presented on the map? Can we predict where news is happening but it isn’t getting covered? Does the quantity of local news reporting scale in proportion to the population of an area? If not, why? What trends within news coverage can only be explained by pairing time and geography?

What can be learned from seeing a set of article locations on a map?

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