Recent Vanderbilt TV News Archive research spans topics + disciplines

To get a better idea of the TV News Archive’s research impact, we conducted a Google Scholar search to learn more about what disciplines are using the TVNA and what topics are being explored. History and Mass Communication Studies top the list, followed by Public Health & Medicine, Sociology, and Political Science.

58 Years of Nightly News, Now Searchable: What Researchers Should Know About the Vanderbilt Television News Archive 

Vanderbilt’s Television News Archive has long enabled research across an array of academic disciplines. With a new investment from the McGee Applied Research Center for Narrative Studies, computational research methods such as text mining, natural language processing and large-scale data analysis are now available.

Venezuela: 58 years in 58 news stories, 2012-2026

The final installment of our series uncovering national television news coverage of foreign relations between the U.S. and Venezuela highlights political unrest following the election of Nicolás Maduro in 2013. From the mid-2010s to the present, media coverage focused on escalating political tensions with Maduro during both Trump and Biden’s presidential administrations.