Using data for Canadian daily newspapers we find that price changes of papers owned by the same firm are synchronized. On the other hand, independently owned newspapers do not appear to change their prices together.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

BACKGROUND In February, 2007, the Associated Press (AP) conducted a poll of 1,002 adults in the United States about their attitudes towards the war in Iraq. Respondents were remarkably accurate estimating the current death toll of US soldiers, yet were grossly inaccurate in estimating the current death toll of Iraqi civilians. We conducted a search of newspapers reports to determine the extent ...

In this paper, we explore the task of automatic text processing applied to collections of historical newspapers, with the aim of assisting historical research. In particular, in this first stage of our project, we experiment with the use of topical models as a means to identify potential issues of interest for historians. 1 Newspapers in Historical Research Surviving newspapers are among the ri...

This paper investigates how newspaper consumption a ects political engagement. To circumvent potential endogeneity issues, I use variation in European languages as an instrument for newspaper consumption. Speci cally, I consider variation in how much physical space languages require to express some given information content. I rst estimate such language e ciency from large bilingual text compil...

read newspapers or other printed material. (1988).

Information delivery is undergoing profound changes. The established media such as radio, television, and newspapers are faced with a variety of new digital content formats. New dimensions of publishing can be exploited in the case of newspaper production. This paper investigates the changes in the production models of newspaper organizations caused by the introduction of information technology...