# How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18105 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.18105/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 51 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 May 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Identifying and Investigating Global News Coverage of Critical Events Such as Disasters and Terrorist Attacks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.12925/) (2025)
- [The Drivers of Global News Spreading Patterns](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13769/) (2023)
- [Retrieving Floods without Floodlights: Topic Models as Binary Classifiers for Extreme Climate Events in German News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.03450/) (2026)
- [The Newsworthiness of Brazilian Distress: A Peak Analysis on Time Series of International Media Attention to Disasters in Brazil](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.04552/) (2026)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [The Course of News Events: A Comparison of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches for Collecting Text-Based Data about Disasters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.00849/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Landslides often hit newsstands due to their destructive and potentially fatal effects. News are a valuable source of information for creating or enriching disaster databases and for expediting media-based studies of the dynamics of media attention. To accomplish that, news datasets must be filtered, geolocated and validated. This paper focuses on how landslides around the world are reported in German newspapers. We analyse almost 55k news articles about 4.5k news events in a 25-year period, compare it with external measures of countries' susceptibility to landslides and provide insights, e.g. the overreporting of Southern and Western Europe, to foster further studies on inequalities in media attention to international disasters.