I join the chorus to say 2020 was a year like no other, and shaped by three historic events: the Coronavirus pandemic, the protests surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, and the US Presidential elections. According to StoryGraph, in 2018, the top news story was the Kavanaugh hearings. In 2019, it was the Mueller Report. Similar to 2018 and 2019, we analyzed all news stories collected by StoryGraph at 10-minute intervals every day in 2020, to identify the top news stories of 2020. Recall how we identify top news stories, explained briefly in 365 dots in 2019 and in detail by the tech report, and repeated here for convenience.
"My report card to my mother," summarizes the trajectory of my PhD research over 6 years at @ODU@WebSciDL as I join @OSoMe_IU @ Indiana University @IUBloomington as a post-doc working with Dr. Filippo Menczer
2/3: Unlike the DNC story, the RNC story competed for attention with other stories such as Kellyanne Conway's White House exit and George Conway's @ProjectLincoln withdrawal pic.twitter.com/djZcCeEfm1