Automatically generating text to accompany information graphics Mary Ellen Foster Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 1999 Generally, when quantitative information is to be presented, some form of graphical presentation is used, often with a textual caption to ensure that the audience notices particular aspects of the data. This thesis presents the pr...

The introduction of the e-newspaper, i.e. a newspaper based on e-paper technology brings new design challenges. In this paper we report from two parallel studies, an online questionnaire to newspaper readers and a questionnaire to newspaper designers. The aim was to find out what qualities to bring from print and online to the e-newspaper as initial input in the design process to design a usabl...

The newspaper industry is facing a new innovation, i.e. the e-newspaper published on e-paper technology, which holds the potential of replacing the printed newspaper in the future, heavily reducing production and distribution costs, thereby catching the interest of the industry. As the newspaper firms lately have experienced declining subscription and advertising revenues, they have been forced...

Making electronic newspapers available to users is an attractive business for newspaper editors. The production of electronic newspapers may a priori be realized at low cost using the editor's news base, while enabling to attain a larger audience. However, the success of an electronic newspaper in a commercial setting depends upon the provided quality of service. The newspaper must guarantee to...

In this paper, we analyze price competition in a duopolistic newspaper industry, where politically di¤erentiated newspapers compete in two distinct markets: circulation and advertising. We scrutinize the "theory of circulation spiral". This theory argues that the two-sided structure of the newspaper industry creates positive bidirectional cross-network externalities between readers and advertis...