Table 1.
Article counts for each local newspaper. Numbers in parentheses indicate unique articles, with duplicates across newspapers counted once.
Table 2.
Article counts for each national newspaper. Numbers in parentheses indicate unique articles, with duplicates across newspapers counted once.
Fig 1.
Publication frequency (monthly) of local vs. national news outlets from June 2019 to June 2022.
Fig 2.
Comparison of article lengths (a) Box plots and (b) Histogram for local vs. national news outlets.
Fig 3.
Comparison of average number of quotes (a) Box plots and (b) Histogram for local vs. national news outlets.
Table 3.
Comparison of quotes metrics between national and local articles.
Fig 4.
Comparison of Top NERs in local news vs national news across the 5 Categories.
Fig 5.
Spider chart of readability metrics in local vs. national news articles.
Table 4.
Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test results for readability metrics.
Fig 6.
Spider chart of lexical richness metrics in local vs. national news articles.
Table 5.
Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test results for lexical richness metrics.
Fig 7.
Comparison of topic modeling on local vs national news articles.
Fig 8.
Most relevant n-grams (1-to-3-gram) for the top 12 topics for local and national news.
Fig 9.
Distribution over time (monthly) of the top 12 topics for local and national News.
Table 6.
Number of articles by scale, theme, and journal (with totals).
Table 7.
Statistical comparison of quotes in local and national articles.
Table 8.
Top 5 named entities for Sports & Cultural Events across news types and entity categories.
Table 9.
Comparison of readability and lexical richness metrics between local and national news for environment and justice Topics.