Research Guides: Gun Politics & Policy: Conversation & Media

TV News Archive (2009-present)
Explore how a topic or event has been covered in TV news: search closed captions and watch video clips from over 1,592,000 shows

Nexis Uni
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Search transcripts of TV news broadcasts from 1990s-present

MediaCloud
Suite of tools for analyzing how news media are covering topics of interest

Access World News
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Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 8,000 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.
Nexis Uni
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Formerly LexisNexis, find newspaper and magazine articles, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials, including Supreme Court cases. Includes the New York Times from 1980-present.
World News Connection
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Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.

CrowdTangle
Chrome extension that lets you track shares of a link across public Facebook posts. Learn more about the capabilities and limitations of CrowdTangle.
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Requires a Facebook account.

Youtube Data Viewer
Look up a Youtube video and find out exactly when it was uploaded (more precise than what's listed on Youtube)
TikTok Date Extractor
Look up when a video was uploaded to TikTok
MW Metadata (Youtube Video Search)
Look up a Youtube video to find out exactly when it was uploaded, location, images, and the user and channel.

TikTok and Telegram
Social search techniques including finding groups and images, avoiding filter bubbles, and using Google to search these sites
Instagram
Social search techniques for Instagram, including using Google Images to find Instagram posts and different options for location-based searching
LinkedIn
Shows techniques for searching LinkedIn, including how to uncover different kinds of information by using Google to search LinkedIn
Facebook
Discusses how to navigate Facebook personalisation of search results to use this platform for research
Twitter / X
Techniques for searching Twitter and examples of what you can find using different approaches

Trends24
Lists the top trending topics on Twitter every hour; lets you focus on a specific city or country (e.g. New Zealand)
AlgoTransparency (Youtube)
Identifies the most recommended videos on YouTube

Data Driven Journalism
Useful analysis and context for data journalism work. Covers current issues in data journalism (e.g. political bots). Highlights award-winning reporting and projects (e.g. European Press Prize- 5 shortlisted stories.)

Learn how to analyze social media ads and spot bots from the Verification Handbook.
Global Investigative Journalism Network: Data Journalism
Features visualizations, analysis, and award-winning data journalism from around the world.
Using social media to find the news
Excellent guide from FirstDraft.
Walks you through effective ways to find content from Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Handbook for critically evaluating what you read online.
Learn how to track the source of viral photos, find out when a page was published, and use reverse image search.
The Markup: Tools
Tools for digital research from non-profit newsroom The Markup, including Blacklight (web privacy) and Split Screen (partisanship on Facebook)