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COVID-19 in the News: Community Coverage of a Global Event

Erin Wolfe

Metadata Librarian, University of Kansas University of Kansas

This project attempts to apply a macro lens to a community’s response to a global situation through in-depth analysis of local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. A variety of natural language processing and textual analysis approaches will be applied to articles published in four news sources from Douglas County, Kansas, beginning with the first mentions of COVID-19 in January 2020 and continuing to the present.

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