How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World

Brielen Madureira, Andreas Niekler, Marc Keuschnigg, Mariana Madruga de Brito


Abstract
Landslides often hit newsstands due to their destructive and potentially fatal effects. News are a valuable source of information for creating or enriching disaster databases and for expediting media-based studies of the dynamics of media attention. To accomplish that, news datasets must be filtered, geolocated and validated. This paper focuses on how landslides around the world are reported in German newspapers. We analyse almost 55k news articles about 4.5k news events in a 25-year period, compare it with external measures of countries’ susceptibility to landslides and provide insights, e.g. the overreporting of Southern and Western Europe, to foster further studies on inequalities in media attention to international disasters.
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2026.climatenlp-1.1
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2026)
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Tobias Schimanski, Aida Usmanova, Gaku Morio, Jingwei Ni, Kalyan Dutia, Seyed Saeid Vaghefi, Dominik Stammbach, Markus Leippold
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ClimateNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–19
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Brielen Madureira, Andreas Niekler, Marc Keuschnigg, and Mariana Madruga de Brito. 2026. How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP 2026), pages 1–19, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World (Madureira et al., ClimateNLP 2026)
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