OBJECTIVES To investigate the quality of nutrition articles in popular national daily newspapers in the UK and to identify important predictors of article quality. SETTING Newspapers are a primary source of nutrition information for the public. DESIGN Newspaper articles were collected on 6 days of the week (excluding Sunday) for 6 weeks in summer 2014. Predictors included food type and heal...

Using data for Canadian daily newspapers we find that price changes of papers owned by the same firm are synchronized. On the other hand, independently owned newspapers do not appear to change their prices together.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

BACKGROUND In February, 2007, the Associated Press (AP) conducted a poll of 1,002 adults in the United States about their attitudes towards the war in Iraq. Respondents were remarkably accurate estimating the current death toll of US soldiers, yet were grossly inaccurate in estimating the current death toll of Iraqi civilians. We conducted a search of newspapers reports to determine the extent ...

In this paper, we explore the task of automatic text processing applied to collections of historical newspapers, with the aim of assisting historical research. In particular, in this first stage of our project, we experiment with the use of topical models as a means to identify potential issues of interest for historians. 1 Newspapers in Historical Research Surviving newspapers are among the ri...

This paper investigates how newspaper consumption a ects political engagement. To circumvent potential endogeneity issues, I use variation in European languages as an instrument for newspaper consumption. Speci cally, I consider variation in how much physical space languages require to express some given information content. I rst estimate such language e ciency from large bilingual text compil...

The neoliberal trend in spatial planning seemingly causes the loss of control plans for destination developments mountain regions southern Norway. predominant local discourse, as seen newspapers and other media, was originally positive to development second homes. Changes have, Skeikampen-destination case, incited strong counter-discourses based on concerns pasture rights, nature values, access...

The distribution of ministerial portfolios in the formation government coalitions Brazilian presidentialism is a crucial factor determining governability political system. Objective measurement relevance ministries to parties offers means shedding light on relations between executive and legislative branches Brazil’s government. This research note aims improve empirical Federal negotiations pre...

Good governance is an essential practice which brings sustainable good living standards and remains a pipedream to various countries. As such, the quest for service delivery has prompted need leaders at different levels, from apex national government level lowest local level, exercise governance. In year 2021, over 5 464 complaints of poor were recorded in South Africa 257 African municipalitie...