Fighting for funding: UK newspapers editors talk about the pressures on local newspapers in Britain today

Local Swedish Newspapers Approaching E-Business?

Most Swedish newspapers have experienced receding advertising revenues during the last years and are now searching for new ways to profit from their online editions. We have conducted three future workshops with both management and end users to envision possible new services that could be profitable for the local newspapers. Furthermore we have conducted an online survey with users selected fro...

The Europeana Newspapers - A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

Pivaj: an Article-centered Platform for Digitized Newspapers Newspapers Layout

PIVAJ is a platform for archived digitized newspaper emphasizing articles: extracting them from digitized documents by automated page layout analysis, OCRing them, indexing their text transcription to allow users to search for content. Crowdsourcing is used to improve the quality of the indexing, by correcting the transcription and by tagging articles with keywords. The platform has been used t...

The Internet and the Market for Local Newspapers

The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of distributing information goods quickly over large areas, and a growing economics literature documents that electronic media have drawn consumers from traditional media markets. Less work has been done to examine how the internet has altered either the audience for traditional media or the products themselves. Using zipcode-level data on newspape...

What the newspapers say about medication adherence: a content analysis

BACKGROUND This study investigates the coverage of adherence to medicine by the UK and US newsprint media. Adherence to medicine is recognised as an important issue facing healthcare professionals and the newsprint media is a key source of health information, however, little is known about newspaper coverage of medication adherence. METHODS A search of the newspaper database Nexis®UK from 200...