Abstract: This presentation provides an overview of novel data resources and analytical tools developed by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research for tracking named entities, topics, and events in global news coverage. Researchers can extract knowledge about places, people, groups and organizations in the news with the centers Global News Index consisting of extracted features from over 170 million news articles published around the world. They can also leverage additional Cline Center resources to trace patterns of conflict discourse, civil unrest, and political violence around the world.
