The worldwide span of the microblogging service Twitter gives an opportunity to make international comparisons of trending topics of interest, such as news stories. Previous international comparisons of news interests have tended to use surveys and may bypass topics not well covered in the mainstream media. This article uses 9 months of English tweets from the UK, USA, India, South Africa, New ...

Fifty years of news coverage on the link between media violence and aggression have left the U.S. public confused. Typical news articles pit researchers and child advocates against entertainment industry representatives, frequently giving equal weight to the arguments of both sides. A comparison of news reports and scientific knowledge about media effects reveals a disturbing discontinuity: Ove...

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...

Twelve U.S. states were tasked with developing nutrient reduction strategies to help address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. To better understand kinds messages different stakeholders these are likely encounter about such strategies, we conducted a content analysis focused on Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy (INRS). We examined 483 articles two agricultural and non-agricultural news outlets. fou...

Background. The news media provide significant health information to the American public. Although the public turns to and trusts local television news, news about cancer has not been systematically examined. Methods. In this content analysis, we examined 40,112 news stories aired in the 3rd, 25th, 87th, and 150th sized market in the country, all located in the Midwest. Results. In total, 386 s...

News media often engage in strategy framing when covering politics, including strategic press and publicity coverage coined to express the focus on the media’s role in the game of politics, as well as politicians’ calculated publicity and public relations efforts in relation to the media. This study examines the effect of strategic press and publicity coverage on perceptions of political PR onc...

Ontologies are commonly used for annotating textual data mainly based on human language technologies [1]. This research focuses on manual extensions of ontologies to support the annotation of business news. Experiments were conducted on a well known Cyc ontology and using Cyc annotator on two business news datasets. We show that the proposed extensions of ontology results in annotation with bet...

OBJECTIVE to describe the coverage of news concerning the nursing profession in the Portuguese media: informative sites on the Internet and in print media. METHOD a total of 1,271 health news items were collected in September and October of 2011 (956 online news items and 325 news items originating from the press review of the Portuguese Order of Nurses). Statistical analysis was used to char...