Abstract

Abstract When newsworthy events occur, information quickly spreads across the Web, along official news outlets as well as across social media platforms. Information diffusion models can help to uncover the path of an emerging news story across these channels, and thereby shed light on how these channels interact. The presented work enables journalists and other stakeholders to trace back the distribution process of news stories, and to identify their origin as well as central information hubs who have amplified their dissemination.