Media Presence Index of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, January–July 2025
Chart: Media Presence Index is based on Russian-language sources that include social media posts (e.g., Telegram, VK, Odnoklassniki), traditional news articles, blog posts, etc. The index measures how frequently and prominently an individual appears in the media each day. It combines two main factors: the scale of each media story (how many articles about the same event are grouped together) and the individual’s salience in that story (the proportion of articles explicitly mentioning the individual). These factors are then adjusted according to the total volume of media coverage on a given day, providing a relative measure of media prominence.
