Figure 5. Median Percentile of First Mention of Latinos in Articles, March 2020 to October 2023

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Note: Articles that mention Latinos earlier in the text are assigned a higher score. We use this as an estimate for the centrality of Latinos to the content of the story.

Source: Analyses of representative samples of English-language daily newspaper articles, published in the United States from March 2020 to October 2023, that contain the terms “COVID*” and “Latino” or “Hispanic,” searched in Newsbank, Inc.’s Access World News full-text database of news sources.Created with Datawrapper