A Cross-Continental Comparison of Negativity in COVID-19 News Coverage

• In Event: News Media Coverage and Communications About the COVID-19 Pandemic

Brief Overview

An automated content analysis of news sentiment of all online COVID-19 coverage, from selected major news outlets, broken down by outlet, from January, 2020 to mid-2021, in North American, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Author

• Kenneth Mulligan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale