Connecting Activists and Journalists

Journalists or activists? Self - identity in the Ethiopian diaspora online community

This study investigates the role of the diaspora online media as stakeholders in the transnational Ethiopian media landscape. Through content analysis of selected websites and interviews with editors, the research discusses how the sites relate to recognized journalistic ideals and how the editors view themselves in regard to journalistic professionalism. It is argued that the journalistic idea...

Activists and “difficult people”

CONNECTING T AND LATTICE-VALUED CONVERGENCES

$top$-filters can be used to define $top$-convergence spaces in the lattice-valued context. Connections between $top$-convergence spaces and lattice-valued convergence spaces are given. Regularity of a $top$-convergence space has recently been defined and studied by Fang and Yue. An equivalent characterization is given in the present work in terms of convergence of closures of $top$-filters.  M...

Journalists and the Stock Market ∗

We find that a small set of financial columnists has a causal effect on short-term aggregate stock market prices. For some journalists (“bulls”) the market reaction is consistently positive, whereas for others (“bears”) it is negative. Because bulls and bears are rotated exogenously in our setting, we can make causal inferences about the media’s impact on aggregate market returns. Journalist ef...

Mapping Nonverbal Communication into Social Status: Automatic Recognition of Journalists and Non-journalists in Radio News

This work shows how features accounting for nonverbal speaking characteristics can be used to map people into predefined categories. In particular, the results of this paper show that the speakers participating in radio broadcast news can be classified into journalists and nonjournalists with an accuracy higher than 80 percent. The results of the approach proposed for this task is compared with...