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About Nancy Watzman

Nancy Watzman is Managing Editor, Television Archive.

How the Internet Archive is hacking the election

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

There are thirteen days until Election Day — not that we’re counting. In this most bizarre, unruly, terrifying, fascinating election year, the Internet Archive has been in the thick of it. We’re using technology to give journalists, researchers and the public … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive data fuels journalists’ analyses of how TV news shows covered prez debate

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

The presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on September 26 drew an audience of 84 million, shattering records. It was also a first for the Internet Archive, which made data publicly available, for free, on how TV news shows covered … Continue reading →

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Tales from the TV News Archive presidential debate near real-time livestream

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

During last night’s presidential debate, the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive experimented with something new: a near real-time live stream of the first presidential debate. This online video stream is editable, embeddable, and shareable on social media. We were the only … Continue reading →

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Presidential debate TV project to track candidates’ coverage

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Presidential debates matter. Voters learn about presidential candidates and their stances on issues from debates and subsequent news coverage. Now, in a new collaboration, the Internet Archive and the Annenberg Public Policy Center aim to help journalists and the public … Continue reading →

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Wayback Machine captures Melania Trump’s deleted internet bio

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Melania Trump’s personal website is now gone from the internet — but is preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine — after a Huffington Post reporter and other news outlets began questioning elements of the would-be First Lady’s biography. Yesterday Christina Wilkie, … Continue reading →

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Is it 1968? Not really — but past convention video clips show controversy

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Research by Robin Chin Is it 1968? Many pundits have been asking this question in recent days, in the lead up to what is expected to be a contentious–and some worry about violent–GOP convention in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to … Continue reading →

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New Rita Allen Foundation grant fuels political ad tracking through Election Day

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

As the Democrats and Republicans convene at their national party conventions in coming weeks, the general election kicks into full swing. Thanks to generous support from the Rita Allen Foundation, we are delighted to announce that the Political TV Ad … Continue reading →

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New video shows rich resources available at Political TV Ad Archive

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

Since our launch on January 22, the Political TV Ad Archive has archived more than 1,080 ads with more than 155,000 airings. We’ve trained hundreds of journalists, students, and other interested members of the public with face-to-face trainings. But much … Continue reading →

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Three takeaways after logging 1,032 political ads in the primaries

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

The Political TV Ad Archive launched on January 22, 2016, with the goal of archiving airings of political ads across 20 local broadcast markets in nine key primary states and embedding fact checks and source checks of those ads by … Continue reading →

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The Political TV Ad Archive: seeing political TV ads in new way

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

A Vox reporter watched every TV ad bombarding Iowa’s voters in the lead up to the caucus–some 100 ads that aired more than 45,000 times–and  lived to tell the tale. Among Alvin Chang’s observations: female omniscient narrators are rare in political … Continue reading →

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Political TV Ad Archive launches today

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

New, free website archives political TV ads in 2016 primaries married with fact-checking and reporting from award-winning journalism partners After sifting through more than 100,000 hours of broadcast television coverage and counting, the Internet Archive today launches its new, free … Continue reading →

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Washington, DC briefing January 22 on new, free website tracking political ads

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Nancy Watzman

The Internet Archive will be launching a new project — the Political TV Ad Archive — in Washington, DC. See details below, and stay tuned for updates: Where: National Press Club, Murrow Room, Washington, DC When: January 22, 2016, 9:00 … Continue reading →

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Pro-Airbnb advertising dominated recent political TV ads in San Francisco

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Nancy Watzman

Based on algorithmic analysis, Pro-Airbnb advertising dominated political TV ads in San Francisco in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Two thirds of the minutes devoted to political ads on several initiatives and races before voters focused on arguments against a … Continue reading →

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Pro-Airbnb political TV ads air at rate of 100:1 as San Franciscans head to polls

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Nancy Watzman

For every one minute of political ads aired in favor of a contentious ballot initiative intended to further regulate Airbnb’s growing presence in the city where it is headquartered, more than 100 minutes of ads urging them to vote “no,” have … Continue reading →

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Get your Dem debate visualizations here

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Nancy Watzman

Hot off the internet presses, here is media analyst’s Kalev Leetaru’s visualization tool, fueled by Internet Archive data, which enables users to trace particular phrases used in broadcast news coverage in the first 24 hours after would-be presidential nominees appeared in the … Continue reading →

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As Democratic candidates debate, Internet Archive will be gathering data

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Nancy Watzman

When Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take the podium tonight along with other contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, their debate will be televised. The Television Archive will be tracking the news coverage surrounding the debate, viewable and … Continue reading →

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