The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that implements what we call “editorial algorithms” to find possible news events. This fully functional system collects real time geo-tagged information from social media, finds key stories, makes an editorial decision whether...

The proliferation of social media is undoubtedly changing the way people produce and consume news online. Editors and publishers in newsrooms need to understand user engagement and audience sentiment evolution on various news topics. News consumers want to explore public reaction on articles relevant to a topic and refine their exploration via related entities, topics, articles and tweets. I wi...

News related content is nowadays among the most popular types of content for users in everyday applications. Although the generation and distribution of news content has become commonplace, due to the availability of inexpensive media capturing devices and the development of media sharing services targeting both professional and user-generated news content, the automatic analysis and annotation...

A BSTRACT We propose a context-dependent approach to the study of political information. Combining a content analysis of broadcast news with a national survey measuring public awareness of various events, issues, and individuals in the news, we show that properties of national media systems influence both the supply of news and citizens’ awareness of events in the news. Public service-oriented ...

In a democracy, news information is vital information which affects people’s thinking process and their opinions. This study will evaluate the perceived IPQ (Information Product Quality) of news as it is disseminated via various media. When we consider the quality of news products, we examine not only news content, but also the form in which news products are delivered and presented. In this st...

Purpose To offer greater insight in the role of blogs in the creation of a more transparent news media system and a more democratic political reality. Design/methodology/approach Framing theory is employed as a conceptual tool to re-interpret existing evidence of the performance of news blogs during situations of political conflict and war. A theoretical analysis is developed setting out the pr...

BACKGROUND The Union-Bloomberg Initiative tobacco control projects were implemented in Himachal Pradesh (a hilly state in North India) from 2007 to 2014. The project focused on the establishment of an administrative framework; increasing the capacity of stakeholders; enforcement of legislation; coalition and networking with multiple stakeholders; awareness generation with focus on earned media ...

Current research is mixed with regard to the question of how the credibility of information published on news websites compares with the credibility of information offered by the traditional news media, although evidence is scarce at this point. The main goal of this paper is to verify whether the rise and expansion of news websites brought about a change in journalists’ perceptions of media cr...

The focus of computer mediated communication research has been lying on the dialogical aspect of Internet communication while the presentation and consumption of online news have been understudied. In this chapter, we make a strong plead to not studying the Internet as one, homogeneous medium, but instead as a meta-medium that carries various divergent news media with specific formal and struct...

News and blogs are two types of media that generate and offer informational resources. News is any information whose revelation is anticipated to have an intellectual or actionable impact on the recipient. The dominant type of news in text analysis is that pertaining to current events. Originally referring to print-based news from press agencies or end-user news providers (like individual newsp...