When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02118v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 18:49:06 GMT
• Title: When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem
• Abstract summary: We create a comprehensive corpus of media storms over a nearly two year period. We validate claims about storm evolution and topical distribution. We provide empirical support for previously hypothesized patterns of influence of storms on media coverage and intermedia agenda setting.
• Score: 26.645261253849117
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Most events in the world receive at most brief coverage by the news media. Occasionally, however, an event will trigger a media storm, with voluminous and widespread coverage lasting for weeks instead of days. In this work, we develop and apply a pairwise article similarity model, allowing us to identify story clusters in corpora covering local and national online news, and thereby create a comprehensive corpus of media storms over a nearly two year period. Using this corpus, we investigate media storms at a new level of granularity, allowing us to validate claims about storm evolution and topical distribution, and provide empirical support for previously hypothesized patterns of influence of storms on media coverage and intermedia agenda setting.

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