The following list includes a selection of recent books, journal articles, and conference papers that have relied on the TV News Archive to support their research studies. It is not a comprehensive account of all that ways the TVNA has been used. Following each citation is a description of how the archive’s collection was used in the project. Please contact us if you know of other recent publications that can be added to the list.
Hornberger, Zachary T., Douglas M. King, and Sheldon H. Jacobson. “Temporal analysis of the clustering and hypothesized social contagion of mass killing events in the United States.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (2025): 102349.
Description: This article uses the TVNA to evaluate the social contagion hypothesis surrounding mass killings, particularly in the media. They demonstrated that this contagion relationship is not present in the research.
Johnson, T. (2025). Remove or Remain? American Attitudes toward Confederate Memorials in the Wake of 2020. Value Inquiry Book Series, 161.
Description: This book chapter leverages the TVNA to research public opinion and media coverage of Confederate memorials to demonstrate that there has been a shift in public opinion away from supporting them in the wake of increasing coverage of racism and protests in 2019-2020.
Arras, P. (2024). American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks: Journalism on the Screen. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Description: The author uses the TVNA in this in-depth analysis of the live news coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that aftermath. The five major networks of the archive were included in the analysis.
Briggs, C. L., & Hallin, D. C. (2024). Making health public: How news coverage is remaking media, medicine, and contemporary life. Routledge.
Description: In this book chapter, researchers used a sample of relevant TVNA news segments – along with a selection of print news – to explore the characteristics of health news.
Dym, B., Simpson, E., & Fong, O., striegl, l. (2023). The internet is not forever: Challenges and sustainability in video game archiving and preservation. Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports, 1(1).
Description: This chapter explores the challenges and meaning of archiving video games and uses TVNA as a source of prior research and an example of navigating questions of ownership for third-party digital archives.
Jay, J., Chan, A., Gayed, G., & Patterson, J. (2022). Coverage of the opioid crisis in national network television news from 2000–2020: A content analysis. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 1322-1332.
Description: This study uses the TVNA to identify and analyze national network television news framing of the scope and impact of the opioid crisis in the U.S., revealing that greater emphasis is needed in the news on underrepresented minorities and older adults as they are the populations at a greater risk of additional stigma and disparities of receiving successful treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
Fox, J. A., Sanders, N. E., Fridel, E. E., Duwe, G. & Rocque, M. (2021). The contagion of mass shootings: The interdependence of large-scale massacres and mass media coverage. Statistics and Public Policy, 8(1), 53-66.
Description: The article uses Vanderbilt’s TVNA to support research on the relationship between mass shootings, their media coverage, and creating moral panic.
Scacco, J. M., & Coe, K. (2021). The ubiquitous presidency: Presidential communication and digital democracy in tumultuous times. Oxford University Press.
Description: The authors use TVNA in an extensive analysis of presidential communication, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, to uncover shifts in public communication and its relationship to the presidency as an institution of democratic governance.
Wilson, R. (2021). Moving to jobs: The role of information in migration decisions. Journal of Labor Economics, 39(4), 1083-1128.
Description: This article uses TVNA as a source to demonstrate how the news sentiment regarding fracking and labor markets can significantly impact migration patterns of different demographic groups. The study finds that young, unmarried, less educated men were most strongly affected.
Lewandowsky, S., Jetter, M., & Ecker, U. K. (2020). Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media. Nature communications, 11(1), 5764.
Description: This article investigates President Trump’s Twitter/X usage and media news coverage in the TVNA as a case study to highlight how social media diverts media coverage away from crucial events and fixates on prompted, unrelated issues.
Shi, L., Lu, Y., & Pickett, J. T. (2020). The public salience of crime, 1960–2014: Age–period–cohort and time–series analyses. Criminology, 58(3), 568-593.
Description: This article uses TVNA to analyze crime salience, or the presence of crime in news coverage, amongst varying populations between 1960-2014. The authors find that crime salience is a function of media coverage and political rhetoric.
Silcock, B. W., & Liseblad, M. (2019). Beyond Walter Cronkite’s “And That’s The Way It Is” Ten American Network News anchors’ swan songs. Journalism Practice, 13(2), 122-139.
Description: This article uses clips and news media coverage from the TVNA to complete a visual and textual analysis of television news anchors in their framing of their “swan songs,” finding similarities between how they all said their final goodbye to their audiences and how they wanted to be remembered.