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The Tyndall Report is a journalism newsletter which has been tracking and analyzing nightly newscasts since 1987. [1] It is run and published by Andrew Tyndall, who is also the head of the New York-based company ADT Research. [2] [3] The website's stated goal is to analyze and contextualize all major network weekday evening newscasts on ABC ( ABC World News ), CBS ( CBS Evening News ), and NBC ( NBC Nightly News ). [4] [5] 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. [6] [7] For instance, a 2015 Tyndall Report found that Donald Trump was by far the most-covered candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, receiving over a quarter of all election coverage on ABC, NBC, and CBS. The report was cited by CNN Money and U.S. News & World Report. [8] [9]

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