I posted recently about visualizing the relationships between editors and the countries appearing in articles they edit for news articles published by Reuters. I've since updated my experimental news aggregation site (now it is intended to eventually be more of a meta-news analysis site) to display only Reuters articles and to extract the names of contributors, including the editors. The overall list of editors is maintained (in the right column) and each editor is displayed with the number of articles observed for which they have attribution. Currently Cynthia Johnston and Tim Dobbyn are at the top of the list.
I plan to leave this running for a while to see how things evolve and who ranks the highest on the editor pile.
Ultimately, what I'd like to do is the following:
- Introduce several news sources to track differences in attention to various nations.
- Take a couple of news republishers / semi-sources (e.g. Fox news) who republish a lot of source articles mixed in with a few original articles and track their attention to countries (thus observing the selections made by those organizations with respect to the possible set of articles from sources like Reuters).
- Track the influence of editors and article writers and reporters to better understand who directs the media agenda and how.
- Incorporate the bitly data as a means of understanding the attention given to editors and authors via their publications.
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