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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by davidbarker on Saturday July 26, 2014 @12:21PM (#8090044)
Does anyone have an idea why the occurrence of "New York" drastically drops (62,000 articles vs. 29,000 articles) between 1980 and 1981?

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=new%20york&format=coun...

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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by FatalLogic on Saturday July 26, 2014 @12:46PM (#8090114)
Perhaps they stopped using datelines for stories?

It was probably a change in style or format, not a reduction in the number of stories about New York, because the percentages of stories about other cities drop in a similar way at the same time.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=new%20york.washington....

Bonus... the end of that chart, I think you can see when the NYT really did begin to expand its proportion non-local news.

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Re:Visualizing language usage in New York Times news coverage by davidbarker on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:04PM (#8090164)
Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks!
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