Acquired with initial exploration

• articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post (1/20/17 through 2/28/18) – thank you Lexis-Nexis and Factiva!
• formal presidential statements from the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents (1/20/17 through 2/28/18)
• informal presidential communication via the Trump Twitter archive (1/20/17 through 3/31/18)

Acquired

• transcripts scraped from three top-rated news-oriented shows on each of CNN, Fox, MSNBC (1/20/17 through 2/28/18)
• still working on story segmentation to chunk out the “stories” about Trump/presidency

Not even begun

• sampling of top digital news sources (e.g., BuzzFeed, Breitbart, Politico, Vox, ???)

Not about having everything or a massive set of sources, but representing a range of sources, significant for their own reasons (audience share, history, influence).

extract

• common features
• from diverse sources
• derived from theories of presidential/political accountability

represent

• visually
• dynamically
• comparatively

validate

• experiments on how citizens “read” different features

iterate

• while adding news each month (or so)

also, do social science

• polarization
• agenda setting
• accountability