# Event Flow -- How Events Shaped the Flow of the News, 1950-1995

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08589 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.08589/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 17 Sep 2021.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This article relies on information-theoretic measures to examine how events impacted the news for the period 1950-1995. Moreover, we present a method for event characterization in (unstructured) textual sources, offering a taxonomy of events based on the different ways they impacted the flow of news information. The results give us a better understanding of the relationship between events and their impact on news sources with varying ideological backgrounds.