This $646,191 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDAⓇ 47.075) program supports the development and enhancement of the NewsScribe media analysis platform at Northeastern University. NewsScribe is an open-source software system that collects, organizes, and provides search capabilities for over 1.5 billion global online news articles, adding approximately 500,000 new stories daily.
The project aims to modernize the underlying Media Cloud software, expand the news archives, and improve the user-friendly search and visualization tools to enable researchers across disciplines to study patterns in news reporting. Key tasks include upgrading the news ingestion pipeline, enhancing the computing architecture, and formalizing data governance processes. A sub-award to the non-profit Media Ecosystems Analysis Group will support the technical development and community engagement for NewsScribe. This two-year grant, awarded in June 2024, seeks to ensure the long-term utility and reliability of this valuable research infrastructure.
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