Mapping the geography of the world’s news media offers a useful lesson in the different views we see depending on the data we use. Performing such analyses requires being able to categorize each news outlet in the world by its country of origin. At first glance, it might seem relatively trivial to determine the geographic location of each of the world’s news outlets. One could run a simple “whois” request and get back the mailing address on file for the news outlet’s website, which presumably would yield its city and country of origin. In the web era, geographic focus matters more than geographic location.

Source: Forbes May 15, 2018 22:52 UTC