Event Flow -- How Events Shaped the Flow of the News, 1950-1995
This work addresses the need to systematically analyze event-news relationships for historians and media researchers, but it is incremental as it applies existing measures to a new dataset.
The paper tackled the problem of quantifying how events influenced news flow from 1950 to 1995 using information-theoretic measures, and it developed a method to characterize events in unstructured text, resulting in a taxonomy that reveals varying impacts across ideological news sources.
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.