Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a set of tools and a database to support quantitative analysis of online news. This consists of both the Online News Archive (2+ billion stories) and the Media Directory (60,000+ global sources). As a piece of critical public digital infrastructure built with open-source technologies, any one can use the web-based tools or API-level access to investigate media attention, language, and influence online.

Learn More

• Read More: mediacloud.org
• Try it out: explorer.mediacloud.org

Collaborators

• The Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure @ UMass Amherst
• Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society @ Harvard University

Related Blog Posts

• Media Cloud Receives Major NSF Grant!
• A New Tool To Help Understand Partisan News in the US
• Upcoming talk at PaCSS’22: Partisan Media Coverage and Intersectionality
• ICA’22 Poster: Politicization and Polarization of Pandemic News Coverage
• Swiped: How dating apps harm marginalized communities
• Pandemic news coverage is falling, but cases keep rising

Papers, Presentations, and Press

• Bhargava, R., Hadjis, E., & Heckman, M. (2024, August). Testing Generative AI for Source Audits in Student-Produced Local News. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Philadelphia, PA.
• Kang, S., McCreedy, K., Messinger, J., Bhargava, R., & Beletsky, L. (2023). The Other Infodemic: Media Misinformation about Involuntary Commitment for Substance Use. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 17(6), e396.
• Heckman, M., Bhargava, R., & Ndulue, E. B. (2023). Powerful in pearls and Willie Brown’s mistress: A computational analysis of gendered news coverage of Kamala Harris on the partisan extremes. Feminist Media Studies, 0(0), 1–19.
• Roberts, H., Bhargava, R., Valiukas, L., Jen, D., Malik, M., Bishop, C., Ndulue, E., Dave, A., Clark, J., Etling, B., Faris, R., Shah, A., Rubinovitz, J., Hope, A., D’Ignazio, C., Bermejo, F., Benkler, Y., Zuckerman, E. (2021). Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web. Presented at the 2021 International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’21), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Doroshenko, L., Gallagher, R., Foucault Welles, B., & Bhargava, R. (2022). Politicalization and Polarization of Local Pandemic Media Coverage in the United States During 2020. 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France.
• Bhargava, R. & Bishop, C. (2020). Mapping and Visualizing News Images for Media Research. (Boston, MA, 2020).
• Bhargava, R., Dave, A., Papakyriakopoulos, O. (2020). Investigating Attention and Influence Online with Media Cloud. Tutorial presented at the 14th International Conference on Web and Social Media, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Zuckerman, E., Matias, J., Bhargava, R., Bermejo, F., & Ko, A. (2019) Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016. International Journal of Communication. 13, 27.

Supporters

This work has been supported with funds from:

• “Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: NewsScribe - Extending and Enhancing the Media Cloud Searchable Global Online News Archive”, 2024 Human Networks Data Science Infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation
• 2023 award from the Information Integrity and Information Pollution program, Digital Public Goods Alliance and United Nations Development Programme.
• “International Hate Observatory” 2021 grant from the Knight Foundation