The Emotional Impact of COVID-19 News Reporting: A Longitudinal Study Using Natural Language Processing

Table 3

Frequency of topics in news tweets.

Topic	Counts	Total %
Cases and Deaths	18890	10.8%
Economic Impact	30419	17.4%
Educational Impact	19308	11.1%
People Stories	11379	6.5%
Authorities and Politics	16643	9.5%
Preventative Measures	34408	19.7%
Virus Spreading	35900	20.5%
Vaccines and Vaccination	7749	4.4%

Note: table shows the distribution of each classified topic across the entire news tweet dataset.