How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World
Published 18 Sept 2026arXiv:2605.18105
Updated 4 h ago · first seen 18 Sept 2026
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Landslides often hit newsstands due to their destructive and potentially fatal effects. News are a valuable source of information for creating or enriching disaster databases and for expediting media-based studies of the dynamics of media attention. To accomplish that, news datasets must be filtered, geolocated and validated. This paper focuses on how landslides around the world are reported in German newspapers. We analyse almost 55k news articles about 4.5k news events in a 25-year period, compare it with external measures of countries' susceptibility to landslides and provide insights, e.g. the overreporting of Southern and Western Europe, to foster further studies on inequalities in media attention to international disasters.
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