Building an Auditable Pipeline for Cross-Language News Coverage Analysis

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How I turned 2,565 Arabic news reports on Lebanon’s war into 234 auditable incidents with Python, Media Cloud, and a traceable data pipeline.
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The project aimed to connect international news coverage to specific fatal strikes in a small Lebanese town by reconstructing what had happened accurately enough to search for it in international news databases. The pipeline was built to turn a pile of Arabic news bulletins into a clean, traceable chain of incidents, locations, and dates.