This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition between South Korean citizens (N=123) from different educational backgrounds. Moreover, the high education group comprehended news with the same level of efficiency across online...

During the past two decades computer technology has revolutionized newspaper production work. As technology for the distribution of journalistic information in various forms has become more easily available, and with the Internet and the World Wide Web’s introduction into companies and households, the tendency has been for the larger media organizations and companies to have several publication...

Objective. We apply economic theories of news to explain differences between Englishand Spanish-language newspaper coverage of immigration. Methods. Using content analysis and contextual data, we examine newspaper coverage of immigration as a function of economic incentives of news organizations and the language of the newspaper outlet. Results. The results indicate that Spanish-language news o...

The Stuttgart-Tübingen Tag Set (STTS) (Schiller et al., 1995) has long been established as a quasi-standard for part-of-speech (POS) tagging of German. It has been used, with minor modifications, for the annotation of three German newspaper treebanks, the NEGRA treebank (Skut et al., 1997), the TiGer treebank (Brants et al., 2002) and the TüBa-D/Z (Telljohann et al., 2004). One major drawback, ...

I undertook the main field work in the summer of 2007. The external data were coded mainly in the summer of 2009, with financial support from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. From 2007 to 2009, I conducted numerous formal and informal interviews with reporters, managing editors, chief editors and CEO of the Newspaper, a number of journalists from other Chin...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of newspaper coverage and a media campaign about Dutch smoke-free legislation on smokers' support for smoke-free bars and restaurants and on secondhand smoke (SHS) harm awareness. DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A content analysis was conducted of 1041 newspaper articles on the smoke-free legislation published in six Dutch newspapers from March 2008 to April...

OBJECTIVES Much research suggests that the general public relies on the popular media as a primary source of information about mental illness. We assessed the broad content of articles relating to mental illness in major Canadian newspapers over a 6-year period. We also sought to assess if such content has changed over time. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of Canadian newspaper ...

A Unix-based system is presented which automatic collects newspaper articles from the web, converts the texts, and includes these texts in a newspaper corpus. This corpus can be searched from a web-browser. The corpus is currently 70 millions words and increases by 4 millions words each month.

This paper describes a lightweight method for capitalizing speech transcriptions. Several resources were used, including a lexicon, newspaper written corpora and speech transcriptions. Different approaches were tested both generative and discriminative: finite state transducers, automatically built from Language Models; and maximum entropy models. Evaluation results are presented both for writt...