Journalists and PR experts cooperation principle

Electricity Customer Clustering Following Experts’ Principle for Demand Response Applications

The clustering of electricity customers might have an effective meaning if, and only if, it is verified by domain experts. Most of the previous studies on customer clustering, however, do not consider real applications, but only the structure of clusters. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the clustering results are applicable to real domains. In other words, the results might not coincide w...

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...

The Sector- Wide Approach organising principle for bilateral development cooperation

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...

Journalists in El Salvador

The typical journalist in El Salvador is male, in his mid-thirties and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 250 interviewed journalists, 101 were women, making for a proportion of 40.4 percent of the overall sample. On average, journalists in El Salvador were 32.00 years old (s=9.27); half of the journalists were younger than 28 years. Journalists tend to be well edu...