About Us

Killthecliche.com aims to illustrate how smart data analysis can help us improve media. Every hour our tracker queries sites of major newspapers for new content and searches for cliches in it. At the moment, we have about 175 cliches in our database; this is by no means exhaustive and we hope to expand it overtime.

Currently, we track articles from six sources (The Boston Globe, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Financial Times and Los Angeles Times). Whenever we could, we tried to process the International News or World sections of these newspapers; we do not claim to process EVERY single article they publish (although we may, in the future).

If you want to help us add more sources to our tracker, please send us an email at clichewars[at-sign]networkedfuturelab.com. Some knowledge of parsing and data mining wouldn't hurt :-)

If you happen to be one of the journalists who happened to get on our list, there is a great site to spread your anger (AngryJournalists.com). Please complain there and not here :-)

The project has been developed by NetworkedFutureLab at a budget of 0(zero) US dollars.