Entry Date:
October 5, 2012

Media Meter

Principal Investigator Ethan Zuckerman


What have you seen in the news this week? And what did you miss? Are you getting the blend of local, international, political, and sports stories you desire.

Media Meter is an automated system that offers "nutritional information labels" for digital news media. In its first phase, the system provides simple visual summaries of the content of a media product or set of sources. In the second phase, we will introduce a tool that allows users to track what media they encounter over the course of a day or week and compare their consumption with others.