Event Flow – How Events Shaped the Flow of the News, 1950-1995

09/17/2021

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by   Melvin Wevers, et al.

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This article relies on information-theoretic measures to examine how events impacted the news for the period 1950-1995. Moreover, we present a method for event characterization in (unstructured) textual sources, offering a taxonomy of events based on the different ways they impacted the flow of news information. The results give us a better understanding of the relationship between events and their impact on news sources with varying ideological backgrounds.