Safe the New Internationalist's stories! Using webscraping and word clouds to see why independent journalism is worth protecting!
For nearly 50 years, the UK-based independent magazine New Internationalist is bringing us impactful, global stories from voices often unheard. The magazine is dedicated to socially conscious journalism and publishing and is now inviting the public to support their mission and become one of their co-owners. In this short post, I will be looking at the topics covered in the New Internationalist by scraping their website for article titles of past issues and visualizing the results in a word cloud, all using R.