Same Story, Different Lens: A Multi-Agent System for Cross-Outlet News Framing Analysis

News outlets covering the same event differ in what they emphasize and omit. \textit{Same Story, Different Lens} is an experimental research prototype for comparing these choices. It collects world and politics coverage from 17 outlets, groups reports about the same event, and produces structured analyses of sentiment, political lean, framing, loaded language, possible omissions, and model-estimated proportions of factual claims and opinion. Loaded-language entries include quotations and neutral rewordings. Three model roles (agents) handle article analysis, assessment of source support, and cross-outlet briefing generation. Analyses are stored in a JSONL archive. The evaluation compares outlet-level lean estimates with approximate, predefined reference ratings and summarizes the Critic's model-assigned grounding scores. These measures provide preliminary diagnostics. A grounding score reflects the model's assessment of support in the supplied text and does not establish factual accuracy or constitute independent verification.

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arXiv (Cornell University)
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2026-10-26
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.35208
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Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
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Same Story, Different Lens: A Multi-Agent System for Cross-Outlet News Framing Analysis

Affan Yasin, Rubia Fatima, Yueqi Lyu, Keyi Li, Weinchen Zhong
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Abstract

News outlets covering the same event differ in what they emphasize and omit. \textit{Same Story, Different Lens} is an experimental research prototype for comparing these choices. It collects world and politics coverage from 17 outlets, groups reports about the same event, and produces structured analyses of sentiment, political lean, framing, loaded language, possible omissions, and model-estimated proportions of factual claims and opinion. Loaded-language entries include quotations and neutral rewordings. Three model roles (agents) handle article analysis, assessment of source support, and cross-outlet briefing generation. Analyses are stored in a JSONL archive. The evaluation compares outlet-level lean estimates with approximate, predefined reference ratings and summarizes the Critic's model-assigned grounding scores. These measures provide preliminary diagnostics. A grounding score reflects the model's assessment of support in the supplied text and does not establish factual accuracy or constitute independent verification.

arXiv (Cornell University)
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
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