Online social media has recently irrupted as the last major venue for the propagation of news and cultural content, competing with traditional mass media and allowing citizens to access new sources of information. In this paper, we study collectively filtered news and popular content in Twitter, known as Trending Topics (TTs), to quantify the extent to which they show similar biases known for m...

This natural-history approach to investigating media reports concerning health can reveal the complex process whereby health research becomes news. Using television and newspaper reports of a press event taken from a larger project, this article examines the inception and mediation of obesity research in the Canadian news media. By exploring questionnaire data, a media release, telephone interv...

The AMASS++ project is a project sponsored by Flemish public interests aimed at increasing the usefulness and usability of multimedia archives notably combined text, audio and visual data through the application of natural language and image processing technologies. To this end, we are collecting digital print media news reports, and television news programming. This data will be thematically o...

Given the importance of the news media in managing the symbolic arena of society, a sizeable body of research has accumulated that considers how that arena is constructed. Klaus Schönbach has touched on this area in his recent entry in the Encyclopedia of Communication, in which he questioned how news organizations were led to " synchronize " their news reports to conform to editorial policy, g...

We examine the effect of media coverage on firm innovation. Using a comprehensive dataset of corporate news coverage from 2000 to 2009, we show that there is a negative relation between media coverage and firm innovation. Our identification tests suggest that the effect of media coverage on innovation is causal. We further find supports for two economic mechanisms underlying the negative innova...

The purpose of this study is to find the difference of the information diffusion between the news and rumors in the social media network. We use the tweets from South American, and analyze the social medial network and the information propagation property based on the false rumors and real confirmed news. Our result shows that the social media network of the false rumor has some unique features...

With a large number of stories emerging from the newsrooms, media websites need to curate interesting news for their readers. Although traditionally news was curated solely by human editors, increasing news volume has led media outlets to adopt editorial algorithms. However, such algorithms are often proprietary, and smaller outlets do not have the resources to build them from scratch. In this ...

Analysing the representation of gender in news media has a long history within the fields of journalism, media and communication. Typically this can be performed by measuring how often people of each gender are mentioned within the textual content of news articles. In this paper, we adopt a different approach, classifying the faces in images of news articles into their respective gender. We pre...

Mainstream U.S. newspapers since the 1890s moved away from event-centered news of local persons and places and toward interpretative news of more distant issues, a trend called the new long journalism that continued when the press moved online. By the mid 2000s social media and web interactivity were common, and print news had not yet entered the profitability and jobs crisis-to-come. A study i...