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Cheryl Morris

NY Gubernatorial Race: Cuomo vs. Paladino in the News

| October 18th, 2010

The New York race for Governor has been one of the most covered and hottest races in this year’s election. We wanted to learn more about that news buzz, so we looked into Pinyadda‘s backend – an index of article data from thousands of sites and blogs across the web. We pulled political headlines from September 1, 2010 to October 13, 2010 that mentioned “Cuomo” or “Paladino”. We then parsed the most mentioned terms in those headlines (excluding generic terms such as “governor” and  “election”) to find the top terms associated with each candidate:

Paladino received the most media attention for his anti-gay remarks, while Cuomo seemed to receive the most media attention around alleged claims of an affair.

We then looked at the volume of news being produced around each candidate. The graphs below display the number of headlines in the news that mention each candidates (measured from September 1 to October 13):

Paladino appears to be stirring the pot a bit more and besting Cuomo in news buzz the first half of October. Does anything surprise you? Do you think the news buzz gap will narrow the second half of October? Let us know in the comments!

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Kevin McCarthy

Foursquare, SCVNGR and Gowalla Comparison: Check-in Wars in the News

| October 18th, 2010

Boston’s FutureM week of panels in October created a wave of discussion about location-based services like Foursquare, SCVNGR and Gowalla. While questions like ‘Which service is best?’ is a subjective matter, questions like ‘Which gets the most media attention?’ is not. Using Pinyadda’s index we compared content from thousands of news sites and blogs, tracking the amount of headline mentions of Foursquare, SCVNGR and Gowalla. The results are represented in the graph below.

Here are some of my take-aways from this graph, and two other comparison graphs you’ll enjoy:

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Cheryl Morris

September News Trend Data: Political Issues with the Most News Buzz

| October 12th, 2010

With November drawing nearer, we wanted to look at the hottest issues in the news during September to get a sense of what issues we can expect politicians to debate most fervently going into elections.

After diving into our news index we found that taxes and the economy dominated headlines in September, followed by health. Mentions of ‘health’ were significantly more in number than mentions of the word ‘healthcare’, and after diving a bit deeper, we found stringed phrases like ‘health plan’ and ‘health insurance’ were used.

Collectively, mentions of war related nations or terminology accounted for half of the remainder of most mentioned issues in headlines. Other top issues mentioned included gay, jobs, government, oil, spending, budget and energy.

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Cheryl Morris

September News Trend Data: Top Pundits in Politics

| October 12th, 2010

With September and its primaries behind us, we wanted to look back at the top pundits and politicians mentioned in news and blog headlines across the web. We broke it down week-by-week to see how the relative mentions shifted as the election season progressed.

Of the top three pundits mentioned in August headlines (Beck, Bush and Palin), only Palin went on to continue to dominate the news in September. Clinton, O’Donnell and Palin were the three most popular names in the political sphere this September, with mentions of O’Donnell during primaries in the third week of September skyrocketing. At the end of September, O’Donnell still held media attention, with Whitman and Colbert gaining a solid share of the news, as well.

And as predicted, President Obama was mentioned most frequently in headlines in September (bottom graph).

Mentions of names in headlines from news outlets and blogs across the web:

Mentions of ‘Obama’ in headlines from news outlets and blogs across the web:

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Were you surprised at any of the pundits mentioned? What other political news trend data do you want to see?

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Cheryl Morris

Political News Data: Top 20 Sites Covering the Tea Party

| October 5th, 2010

After looking into Pinyadda‘s index of news data for mentions of political parties in headlines in September, we found that mentions of Tea Party was prevalent, even passing mentions of Democrat at one point during the month. We then wanted to find out which sites were publishing the most about the Tea Party, compiling this graph of the top 20 sites with the most mentions of Tea Party in their headlines:

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Cheryl Morris

GOP Leads in Party Media Buzz in September

| October 5th, 2010

We dove into Pinyadda‘s news trend data to track mention of party terms in headlines from hundreds of news outlets and blogs across the web. We looked for the words Republican or GOP, Conservative, Tea Party, Democrat or Dems, and Liberal. Here is the data we pulled over time, and a second graph below it displays totals:

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Cheryl Morris

September Political News Data: O’Donnell Takes the Cake, Gaga Bests Pelosi

| September 24th, 2010

With the announcement of Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor to Obama as well as the Republican primary victory for Christine O’Donnell (R-DE), women have been all over the political landscape this September.  We dove into our index to investigate the coverage of women in politics across online news outlets and blogs alike. We looked across article headlines for mentions of particular political names from September 1 to September 22nd to find which political woman had the most media buzz:

Polarizing figures like O’Donnell and Governor Palin snatched up the most buzz.  Lady Gaga’s stance on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy made her a somewhat political figure this month, and the announcement that Warren would advise Obama on consumer protection launched her name into the headlines. Ironically, the woman with the highest position in our federal government, Nancy Pelosi, ranked last in media attention.

Follow aggregated news feeds on the 2010 elections, all in one place on Pinyadda:

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Cheryl Morris

Primary Candidates with the Most News Buzz [DATA]

| September 20th, 2010

The September 14, 2010 primaries included several tight races for the republican party, seemingly pitting the RNC against the Palin-infused Tea Partiers. We took a our index of news data across politics leading up to and after the election on four key races in Delaware, New York and New Hampshire to see which candides had the most news buzz.

In each race, the winning candidate went into the polls with more news buzz than the other and makes us wonder to what degree media attention leading up to a race helps push one candidate past another, or perhaps predict the winner?

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Cheryl Morris

Following the Koran Burning Controversy Online [DATA]

| September 15th, 2010

While the NYC mosque debate garnered a good deal of media coverage in September, the proposed 2010 Koran burning by Pastor Terry Jones in Gainsville, Florida also gained significant national media coverage in September. We took a look at Pinyadda‘s news index for mentions of “Koran” or “Quran” to take a snapshot of the top online news outlets covering the controversy and when it reached its media coverage height online:

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Cheryl Morris

Top 10 VMA Celebs in the Press, Before & After [DATA]

| September 13th, 2010

Last night’s Video Music Awards brought all sorts of celebrities out to the red–I mean white–carpet, from the cast of Jersey Shore to the Jackass crew to Lady Gaga’s pals in the US Marines. Between all the wardrobe changes and performances, tweet volumes of the hottest celebs flashed across the stage screen, adding some extra entertainment and competition to the night. We were curious to compare top celeb tweet mentions to their mentions across top online news and blog outlets.

To see what celebrities were getting the most buzz the week prior to the VMAs, we dove into our index and pulled all the articles with “VMA” in their headlines. From there we parsed names of the top 10 most mentioned celebrities:

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