Synergies between print and online activity in the newspaper industry are not fully understood. Nor is their influence on newspaper circulation rates. Both issues are investigated using data from a small survey of regional newspapers. In particular, we show how cross-media synergies for print and online interaction can be estimated against a simple conceptual model. Also how different combinati...

Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on online news journalism, thereby neglecting the magnitude of new styles and genres that are currently emerging in online journalism. In this paper the findings of a longitudinal e...

The Internet plays a major role as a source of news. Many publishers offer online versions of their newspapers to paying customers. Online newspapers bear more similarity with traditional print papers than with regular news sites. In a close collaboration with Mediengruppe Madsack publisher of newspapers in several German federal states, we aim at providing a semantically enriched online newspa...

This paper addresses the growth and development of the concept of interactivity in online newspapers from the perspectives of computer-mediated communication, journalism, advertising, and information system. This paper discusses the concept of interactivity that originated in the work of Heeter. The study maps Heeter’s dimensions (content, availability and choice, communication opportunity, eff...

abstract thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. the theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. the present study aimed to examine how iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...

Information extraction is the task of extracting relevant information from unstructured data. This paper aims to ‘mine’ (or extract) crime information from online newspaper articles and make this information available to the public. Baring few, many countries that possess this information do not make them available to their citizens. So, this paper focuses on automatic extraction of public yet ...

Abstract This is the age of information explosion. A massive quantity of information is being generated, a large portion of which is found in newspapers. It is posing a unique challenge for information managers for processing information and providing required information to information seekers. This article discusses a newspaper information retrieval system named Vidyasagar University News Arc...