Fig. 5: COVID-19 news media article topics.
From: News media coverage of COVID-19 public health and policy information

The topics of news media articles analyzed (A) over the timeframe of this study and (B) by news outlet are specified. Sampled articles were published on randomly sampled days between 1 March and 15 August 2020 (Methods). The topic of each article (n = 1331) was categorized by societal sectors (up to 2 selected per article) related to healthcare, leisure and entertainment, economics and commerce, government and politics, and other social services.