The power behind the news

A new beauty contest in today's Wall Street Journal Asia - the list of the most powerful CEO's in India, as measured by appearance in the news. We collect this data for the New Delhi bureau who comments on the top events involving the executives. The interactive online graphic can be found here. There is also a Japanese and Chinese version of the Power List which are already live for some time.

Media sentiment predicts eurozone collapse

Some recent findings regarding media sentiment. As I already pointed out earlier in our Dow Jones PR blog, there are astonishing parallels between the media talking about a possible eurozone break-up and the Spanish yield curves.
We searched for the terms euro/eurozone break-up/collapse and related words. The result was a peak in early December 2011, prior to a critical EU summit in Brussels. The outcome of the meeting (and the ECB) were calming the markets in the following weeks, but now it appears that the fear about the euro is back.
It's visible on today's spike in the Spanish bond yields - most-watched as the battle for Spain likely decides the fate of the single currency.
Mentions of "Euro Break-up" were already raising to a new year high in the last week. 683 documents referred to it, according to data collected from Factiva. And it seems to be just the beginning.

Data rules the world

Blogging is cool again. Hundreds of new mainstream blogs are mushrooming in the big newsrooms, the FT, WSJ or the NYT reporters being very prolific. The world is longing for more analysis and commentary! Real-time blogging and live desks are the newest trend. The FT was setting up one and so did the Journal. Our life as a stream - we pick our influencers and they feed us the information we need. Instantly. At any time.


Since the beginning of the year we provide some media data to the new Wall Street Journal Deutschland in Frankfurt. They created this fantastic graphic here. It shows the DAX CEOs that are most appearing in newspapers, magazines and trade press. Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn is currently number 1, ousting Deutsche Bank’s Joseph Ackermann who was on the top during the entire last year. More to come...