Founded in 2019, the Media Ecosystems Analysis Group (MEAG) is a non-profit organization conducting media analysis research and educational activities.

MEAG is associated with the Media Cloud project and open source tool suite, developed at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Whiting, P., Partridge, V., Ndulue, . E. B., Olaniran, S., & Bermejo, F. (2026). "The malaria vaccine should be Dead on Arrival": Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat, a Nigerian Pentecostal Social Networking Platform. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. doi:10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15264

Bermejo, F., Bhargava, R., Budne, P., Gulley, P., Leon, E., McGrady, R., … Zuckerman, E. (2026). Media Cloud 2.0: An Updated Open Web News Archive. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 20(1), 2735–2746. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42778

Bhargava, R., Jespersen, M. H., Ndulue, E.B., and Dsouza, V. (2025). Impacts of Racial Bias in Historical Training Data for News AI. C+J (Computation + Journalism) Symposium, 2025.

Ndulue, E., Roberts, S. and Abraham, P. (2024) "Healthcare research and development (R&D) as reflected in digital news: Analysis from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa", The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), (34), pp. 1–28. doi:10.23962/ajic.i34.20161.

Bhargava, R., Bermejo, F., Chesnutt, K., Jefferies, D., & Ndulue, E. B. (2024). A Multinational Computational Analysis of Hyperlinking in News. Journalism Practice, 18(8), 2062–2084. doi:10.1080/17512786.2022.2133780

Heckman, M., Bhargava, R., & Ndulue, E. B. (2023). Powerful in pearls and Willie Brown’s mistress: a computational analysis of gendered news coverage of Kamala Harris on the partisan extremes. Feminist Media Studies, 25(1), 1–19. doi:10.1080/14680777.2023.2280545.

Health Discourse Research Initiative (Gates Foundation)

-- African Health Influencers: From News to Twitter in Kenya
-- Healthcare research and development (R&D) as reflected in digital news: Analysis from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
-- "The malaria vaccine Should be Dead on Arrival": Exploring Health Discourse and Misinformation on KingsChat, a Nigerian Pentecostal Social Networking Platform

Giving & Philanthropy Norms & Narratives Initiative (Gates Foundation)

-- 2017-2020 3-Year Findings Overview
-- 2019-2020 Research Summary, Research Deck, Infographic
-- 2018-2019 Research Summary, Research Deck, Infographic
-- 2017-2018 Research Summary, Research Deck, Infographic

Other

-- The Language of Immigration Reporting: Normalizing vs. Watchdogging in a Nativist Age (Define American)
-- Targeting Greta Thunberg: A Case Study in Online Mis/Disinformation (German Marshall Fund)
-- Why Black Media Matters Now (CUNY Center for Community Media)
-- Women in the News in the Age of Coronavirus (Gates Foundation)
-- Women in the News in 2019 (Gates Foundation)