NewsAgent is an intelligent type of agent that has the capability of generating personal newspapers from particular user preferences extracted by observation and feedback. This agent generates personal newspapers using static word analysis for extracting a global classification and case-based reasoning for dynamic subclassification. The agent observes users by an applet with capabilities of det...

K nowledge of the image of minority nurses that is projected to the public via the mass media is crucial to the advancement of these groups. To determine the image of minorities in nursing as it was expressed in American newspapers in 1978, we asked the following questions: • Where and to what extent are minority nurse groups made visible to the public through the newspapers? • To what extent d...

UK general practitioners (GPs) are self-employed entrepreneurs running small businesses with commercial considerations. In this situation there is no clear distinction between information, self-promotion and advertising. In response to the growing public demand for more information about medical services, the medical profession should voluntarily accept the notion of soft self-promotion in the ...

Communication perspectives are presented on the challenges posed to traditional newspapers by social media and citizen journalism, with special reference to the United States. This is an important topic given the critical role investigative reporting, long the domain of newspapers, plays in fostering democratic practices. New Media and social networking technology are evaluated in terms of thei...

We consider a model of daily newspapers’ competition to test the validity of the so called “theory of the circulation spiral”. According to it, the interaction between the newspapers and the advertising markets drives the newspaper with the smaller readership into a vicious circle, finally leading it to death. In a model with two newspapers, we show that, contrary to this conjecture, the dynami...

We model the market for news as a two-sided market where newspapers sell news to readers who value accuracy and sell space to advertisers who value advert-receptive readers. In this setting, monopolistic newspapers under-report or bias news that sufficiently reduces advertiser profits. Paradoxically, increasing the size of advertising eventually leads competing newspapers to reduce advertiser b...