Table 5 Keywords and news values in the reports by NYT.

From: What is newsworthy about Covid-19? A corpus linguistic analysis of news values in reports by China Daily and The New York Times

NYT-US sub-corpus

NYT-Other countries sub-corpus

News values

school (23.02), schools (17.21), rates (12.87), led (8.06), hospitalized (7.16)

lockdown (42.14), restrictions (26.28), protest (18.30), travel (15.07), flouting (8.15), ill (8.15), blow (8.15), limit (8.15)

Negativity and Impact

New York (65.51), state (57.68), California (37.61), New York City (32.70), States (31.90), NYC (24.18), US (19.92), Texas (16.12), Florida (16.12), Los Angeles (13.43), New Jersey (10.75), county (8.95), Chicago (7.16), NY (6.27), south (5.37)

Britain (77.45), Europe (45.67), Italy (36.69), Australia (36.69), France (34.65), UK (32.61), Canada (30.97), European (24.46), Germany (23.99), Spain (22.42), European Union (20.38), England (20.38), EU (20.38), New Zealand (14.27), Melbourne (12.23), Brazil (12.13), Latin America (10.19), London (10.19), Ireland (8.15), Greece (8.15)

Proximity

continued (8.06)

far (10.56)

Superlativeness

testing (12.16), guidance (11.64), plan (6.10)

inoculation (10.19), approves (10.19), celebrate (8.15)

Positivity

Trump (74.04), Biden (55.22), Cuomo (41.19), Gov. (39.40), White House (35.82), President (31.35), the mayor (27.76), administration (26.77), governor (25.97), federal (21.43), CDC (19.70), Andrew (17.91), republican (15.22), office (12.54), House (11.64), Bill de Blasio (11.64), Democrats (10.75), FDA (10.75), governors (9.85), officers (8.95), Congress (8.95), Senate (8.06), centers (7.23), Jr. (7.16), Moderna (6.47), Newson (6.27), Fauci (6.27), Joseph. R. Biden (6.27), senator (5.37), Republicans (5.37)

prime minister (79.49), Boris Johnson (50.95), WHO (26.50), government (23.14), astrazeneca (20.38), leader (16.51), official (14.42), parliament (12.23), UN (12.23), Angela Merkel (10.19), World Health Organization (9.70), Xi (8.15), minister (8.15), Communist Party (8.15), Narendra Modi (8.15), Merkel (8.15), Macron (8.15), Emmauel Macron (8.15)

Eliteness

Americans (22.87), students (22.44), (New) Yorkers (22.39), children (20.74), black (10.75), employees (10.32)

citizens (24.46), Italians (10.19)

Personalization