OP-ED

Who is quoted and who is elected? Media coverage of political candidates

November 09, 2020

Congratulations to Maite Taboada and Lucas Chambers on their op-ed entitled "Who is quoted and who is elected? Media coverage of political candidates." 

Using Natural Language Processing tools developed in the Discourse Processing Lab, this op-ed looks at data gathered from the top Canadian news sources to investigate the relationship between prominence in news media and chances of being elected. Find the op-ed here.