The Tyndall Report is a
journalism
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newsletter which has been tracking and analyzing nightly newscasts since 1987. It is run and published by Andrew Tyndall, who is also the head of the New York-based company ADT Research. The website's stated goal is to analyze and contextualize all major network weekday evening newscasts on
ABC
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ABC World News
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CBS
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CBS Evening News
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NBC
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NBC Nightly News
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''). Tyndall Reports analyzing the amount of coverage given to certain people and issues have been cited in several media outlets during U.S. presidential election cycles. For instance, a 2015 Tyndall Report found that
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
was by far the most-covered candidate in the
2016 U.S. presidential election
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, receiving over a quarter of all election coverage on ABC, NBC, and CBS. The report was cited by
CNN Money
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and
U.S. News & World Report.
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1987 establishments in the United States
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