Data card 05
When a phrase appears, how fast do other papers pick it up?A question raised by Leskovec and colleagues (2009) and Smith and colleagues (2013)
A new slogan appeared in 21 newspapers on the same day
Date of each paper’s first article using 全球治理倡议, “Global Governance Initiative”
2 September 2025, the first day: 21 papers
- People’s Daily 人民日报
- Chongqing Daily 重庆日报
- Fujian Daily 福建日报
- Gansu Daily 甘肃日报
- Guizhou Daily 贵州日报
- Hainan Daily 海南日报
- Hebei Economic Daily 河北经济日报
- Heilongjiang Daily 黑龙江日报
- Henan Daily 河南日报
- Hunan Daily 湖南日报
- Inner Mongolia Daily 内蒙古日报
- Jiangxi Daily 江西日报
- Jiefang Daily 解放日报
- Nanfang Daily 南方日报
- Ningxia Daily 宁夏日报
- Shaanxi Daily 陕西日报
- Sichuan Daily 四川日报
- Tibet Daily 西藏日报
- Xinhua Daily 新华日报
- Xinjiang Daily 新疆日报
- Zhejiang Daily 浙江日报
3 September, one day later: 1 paper
- Tianjin Daily 天津日报
Collected on few days at the time; first matching article 15 October: 1 paper
- Yunnan Daily 云南日报
Not yet in the collection in September 2025: 4 papers
- Dazhong Daily 大众日报
- Guangming Daily 光明日报
- Hubei Daily 湖北日报
- Jilin Daily 吉林日报
Xi Jinping put the initiative forward on 1 September 2025. The next day the phrase was in People’s Daily and 20 other papers in the collection. Tianjin Daily’s first matching article is dated a day after that.
Source: PropagandaScope, data to 12 October 2026. First observed in this collection is not proof of origin: an outlet outside the collection may have used the phrase earlier. Long articles cut at 5,000 characters when collected may hide an earlier match.
Research sources: Leskovec et al. (2009), Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle (PDF) · Smith et al. (2013), Infectious Texts (PDF)
