Media Cloud, an open-source media research platform, helps researchers study news and information flow globally. In partnership with Media Cloud, this DS4CG project aims to address the challenge of understanding how news events are framed across the political spectrum, a critical task for uncovering bias and fostering informed media consumption.
The DS4CG team contributed by enhancing Media Cloud’s dashboard, which categorizes news coverage into five political groups: mostly left, somewhat left, center, somewhat right, and mostly right. Using advanced NLP techniques like Sentence-BERT for embeddings and OSLOM for clustering, the system detects and visualizes key news events across these categories, enabling researchers to compare coverage and draw insights.
This collaboration provides media researchers with a powerful tool to explore and understand how news is reported and framed, supporting media literacy and critical analysis.