City University of New York

Community Media Explorations with CUNY’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism

In partnership with the school’s Center for Community Media, MEAG gathered and analyzed news from directories of community media across the US.

Using news as signal to explore healthcare R&D in Africa

MEAG and Code for Africa (Sandra Roberts and Praise Ocheanya Abraham) undertook a joint research project to analyze coverage of healthcare research and development in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, resulting in a peer-reviewed journal article.

Health Discourse Research Initiative

The Conversation About GMOs in 2021

An analysis of attention, influence, and themes in news and social media conversations about GMOs in recent years.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AKAS

Women In The News

MEAG completed research on the presence of women in the news for calendar year 2019. This work was in support of key commitments of BMGF’s gender equality in news initiative.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Discourse on Giving & Philanthropy in the US

This work fills a gap in research by describing and understanding conversations about giving and philanthropy that are taking place in the news and across social media in the United States.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AKAS

Women In The News In The Time Of Coronavirus

In conjunction with audience strategy consultancy AKAS and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MEAG completed research on the presence of women in the news during the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide. This work was in support of key commitments of BMGF’s gender equality in news initiative.

German Marshall Fund

Tracking Disinformation On Greta Thunberg

This novel work identified key disinformative narratives about climate activist Greta Thunberg, tracking their origination and spread across social platforms and news media.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HDRI

African Health Influencers: From News To Twitter In Kenya

This investigation used a novel methodology to identify health influencers in Kenya from a news corpus, and then tracked the social media link sharing of these influencers to look for popular domains and possible sources of health misinformation.