Journalistic and Commercial News Values

News talk-show chaptering with journalistic genres

Modern TV or radio news talk-shows include a variety of sequences which comply with specific journalistic patterns, including debates, interviews, reports. The paper deals with automatic chapter generation for TV news talk-shows, according to these different journalistic genres. It is shown that linguistic and speaker-distribution based features can lead to an efficient characterization of thes...

RoCo-News: A Hand Validated Journalistic Corpus of Romanian

The paper briefly describes the Ro-Co project and, in greater details, one of its first outcomes, the RoCo-News corpus. Ro-Co- is a series of various registers corpora of Romanian that are developed within the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy. They are planned for public release to the research community as the underlying automatic annotations are v...

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News values on social media: News organizations’ Facebook use

This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total of 15,589 news stories are analyzed in order to examine the prominence of references to countries...

Social and Journalistic Changes