Media, News & Advertising
The press, the archive, and the ad ledger — how stories get told, what gets covered, and who pays to be seen.
11 pieces
BlogNewAmerican Stories — A Booklet
A bound reading of nine American Stories investigations: how U.S. newspapers narrated catastrophe, violence, and reform between 1898 and 1933. Opens with the data and the GABRIEL method behind every article.
BlogNewThe Political Ad Ledger
A data booklet on what Google's public political-ads dataset reveals about political advertising in India, 2019–2026: the money, the machinery, and the government behind it.
TeachingGDELT Media Agenda Lab
Search global news and television coverage as an agenda-setting lab: compare attention, tone, source geography, station airtime, and evidence cards from live GDELT APIs.
BlogNewHow a Moral Crusade Became a Governance Problem
Prohibition entered the Constitution through moral reform and democratic legitimacy. Fourteen years later, newspapers buried it under economics, administration, and regulated repeal.
TeachingNewThe Dead They Didn't Count
18,863 newspaper articles show how the American press framed the Titanic: quick to blame the company and mourn the spectacle, but nearly silent on the immigrant poor in steerage who died in the greatest numbers.
BlogNine Thousand Bylines
HuffPost's author fields record a business model reversing in real time: a 9,000-contributor open platform in 2014 re-concentrates into a staff core writing 42% of bylined output by 2016.
BlogThe Half-Life of Fame
What 719 celebrity deaths reveal about how attention works: the spike is enormous, the decay is brutal, and the half-life is one day.
BlogWhen Politics Ate the Newsroom
209,527 HuffPost headlines, 2012–2022: politics triples its share of the newsroom, the listicle dies, and you can date the arrival of every word.
TeachingIndustry Ad Spend Explorer
Explore 2018-2022 advertising spend by industry group, advertiser, and media type, with a Covid-era lens on budget shocks, recovery, and media mix shifts.
Trump tweet device corpus
Tweet text with timestamps and iPhone/Android attribution labels, likely for authorship, source, or political text analysis.
TeachingTwo Thumbs, One Account
During the 2016 cycle, @realDonaldTrump was posted from two devices. The Washington Post noticed a pattern: warm, on-message tweets came from an iPhone (staff), while the combative ones came from an A