Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers navigate to news outlets that are government controlled (GC) and pro-government biased even in the presence of independent news outlets. Does this imply a demand for pro-government bias in the news? Or do consumers enjoy other aspects of GC news outlets such as quality or brand? To answer these questions, we examine consumers’ demand in the Russian online n...

Title of Document: THE EMOTIONS SOCIAL MEDIA BRING TO NEWS: THE EMERGENCE OF EMPATHY AND COMPASSION FOR ELEMENTS OF NEWS MESSAGES. EunRyung Chong Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: John E. Newhagen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Philip Merrill College of Journalism This study is an experiment examining qualitative differences of social media as an emerging news platform from traditional main s...

Social media for news consumption is becoming popular nowadays. The low cost, easy access and rapid information dissemination of social media bring benefits for people to seek out news timely. However, it also causes the widespread of fake news, i.e., low-quality news pieces that are intentionally fabricated. The fake news brings about several negative effects on individual consumers, news ecos...

background: breaking bad news to cancer patients is one of the important responsibilities in the oncology setting. the purpose of this study is develop and validate a new theoretically based tool for measurement of attitude and practice of physicians toward breaking bad news. methods: the psychometric properties of the scale were established by following the guidelines of clark and watson. in t...

Relying on a comprehensive data set of news releases, we construct monthly firm-level news sentiment scores during the 2000–2014 period and document a news momentum phenomenon that stocks with more positive news in the past generate more positive news in the future. We propose two hypotheses to explain this phenomenon and find that news momentum is driven by the persistence of firms’ fundamenta...

T objective of this paper is to better understand the factors that competitive news providers consider to design or deliver news programmes. The focus is broadcast news where, in any programming time period, a viewer watches (or consumes) one programme. We assume that each viewer is interested in a limited set of topics and that her utility only comes from the “most interesting” news she observ...