GDELT TV News Visual Explorer

Welcome to the GDELT Television News Visual Explorer, a collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive to explore new approaches to enabling public interest exploration and understanding of global television news by journalists and scholars. For more than a quarter century, the Archive has monitored television news from around the world, allowing journalists and scholars to look back at the contemporary information environment and prevailing public information, perspectives, and narratives surrounding the world's biggest stories from war to pandemics to the economy.

This is a highly experimental research initiative focused on reimagining how memory institutions like the Archive can make their television news archives more accessible to scholars, journalists and informed citizens. It is optimized for desktop use under a modern web browser like Chrome. Video clips are streamed directly from the Archive and may experience delays or errors during periods of high load. Missing shows may become available later as they complete processing at the Archive or may have experienced technical problems in the recording process. Some shows may have A/V sync issues (audio drifting) or other artifacts due to the immense complexity of monitoring television news from around the world and transient issues with the underlying sources the Archive relies upon to monitor the channels. Captioning, table of contents and other enhancements are 100% automated. No data has been used to train or tune any AI model. Video clips are streamed directly from the Internet Archive.

Please contact Kalev Leetaru with any questions.

Channels

The following channels are currently included in the Visual Explorer.