Why German news covers some landslides but ignores others

This paper analyzes how German newspapers cover landslides globally, examining 60,000 articles about 5,500 events across 25 years. The authors geolocate and validate news coverage, then compare it against objective measures of landslide susceptibility by country. They find significant geographical bias: Southern and Western Europe receive disproportionate coverage relative to actual disaster risk, while other vulnerable regions are underreported. The work demonstrates how news datasets can be systematically analyzed to reveal inequalities in media attention to international disasters, with implications for disaster monitoring and understanding global information inequality.