Making electronic newspapers available to users is an attractive business for newspaper editors. The production of electronic newspapers may a priori be realized at low cost using the editor's news base, while enabling to attain a larger audience. However, the success of an electronic newspaper in a commercial setting depends upon the provided quality of service. The newspaper must guarantee to...

In this paper, we analyze price competition in a duopolistic newspaper industry, where politically di¤erentiated newspapers compete in two distinct markets: circulation and advertising. We scrutinize the "theory of circulation spiral". This theory argues that the two-sided structure of the newspaper industry creates positive bidirectional cross-network externalities between readers and advertis...

Online content publishers often use catchy headlines for their articles in order to attract users to their websites. These headlines, popularly known as clickbaits, exploit a user’s curiosity gap and lure them to click on links that often disappoint them. Existing methods for automatically detecting clickbaits rely on heavy feature engineering and domain knowledge. Here, we introduce a neural n...

Studies report that users avoid looking at areas they consider to display advertising. The objective of the present study was to systematically investigate the influences of task demand, and web information type on recognition of verbal emotional advertising when people focus on a primary task. Our findings contribute important insights into preattentive procssing research. First, the empirical...

In this paper, we present the HybridTrim system which uses a machine learning technique to combine linguistic, statistical and positional information to identify topic labels for headlines in a text. We compare our system with the Topiary system which, in contrast, uses a statistical learning approach to finding topic descriptors for headlines. The Topiary system, developed at the University of...

Headlines play a crucial role in attracting audiences’ attention to online artefacts (e.g. news articles, videos, blogs). The ability to carry out an automatic, largescale analysis of headlines is critical to facilitate the selection and prioritisation of a large volume of digital content. In journalism studies news content has been extensively studied using manually annotated news values – fac...