A municipal newspaper

HyperNews: a commercial electronic newspaper

MEDIA1 is a platform that allows the commercialization and dissemination of electronic documents under similar conditions as printed documents using an agent-based, distributed and secure platform. Documents in the MEDIA system are encapsulated within agents which the reader must execute in order to access their contents. The developed pilot application of MEDIA is HyperNews, a commercial elect...

Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Newspaper Editorials

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

Etel: A Newspaper-Based Distributed Information System

SCMP.com: strategic repositioning of a newspaper

In 1996, the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a Hong Kong-based English-language news daily, established PostNet (an electronic publishing division) to experiment with the on-line medium. In mid-1999, SCMP’s Board of Directors observed the Internet’s meteoric rise and considered PostNet’s e-commerce opportunity. In order to leverage e-commerce’s growth, they resolved to reposition the SCMP from...

Clustering in Newspaper Pages

In the analysis of a newspaper page an important step is the clustering of various text blocks into logical units, i.e., into articles. We propose three algorithms based on text processing techniques to cluster articles in newspaper pages. Based on the complexity of the three algorithms and experimentation on actual pages from the Italian newspaper L’Adige, we select one of the algorithms as th...