Currently online news sites have greatly satisfied the expectations of the readers, and there has been a decrease in the circulation of print newspapers. Proliferation of various e newspapers has given a lot of choices to people so that there is a growing competition between the two. Here an attempt is made to gather all the available literature resources so that the research will enable the pr...

Newspapers are rich records of U.S. history. Due to the deterioration of older newspapers, the National Endowment for the Humanities is archiving 19th century newspapers on microfilm. Although microfilm is a good preservation method, it provides limited access to researchers and the general public. We are building a system to provide universal access to digital images and full-text content of h...

The TV oak (Television Oak) conflict concerned felling an old tree in a wealthy area of Stockholm. The case received great public attention in different media formats with different scopes (e.g., newspapers, television, internet). The TV Oak issue involved actors with different, partly conflicting perceptions. Assuming that the relevance of urban tree management issues in particular leads to in...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the nature of newspaper reporting about online health information in the UK and US. Internet users frequently search for health information online, although the accuracy of the information retrieved varies greatly and can be misleading. Newspapers have the potential to influence public health behaviours, but information has been lacking in relation to how news...

Formaldehyde, an economically important chemical, is classified as a human carcinogen that causes nasopharyngeal cancer and probably leukemia. As China is the largest producer and consumer of formaldehyde in the world, the Chinese population is potentially at increased risk for cancer and other associated health effects. In this paper we review formaldehyde production, consumption, exposure, an...

By combining the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach with the corpus linguistic method, this study compared the lexical choices employed by two English newspapers, i.e. China Daily and the New York Times, in their coverage of Sichuan earthquake. This study aims to probe into the different political stances and ideology concealed under the news reports. The comparative analysis of the two...