Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a ‘wordpair’. Three wordpair sets, manual wordpairs extraction (ME), manual wordpairs addition (MA), and a...

This paper analyzes the impact of news aggregators on the quantity and composition of internet news consumption. In principle, news aggregators can be a substitute or a complement to the news outlets who invest in the creation of news stories. A policy debate centers around the decrease in the incentives for news creation that results if readers choose to consume their news through aggregators ...

This paper investigates how, in the delivery of diagnostic news, participants to the delivery may engage in meaning assessment or interpreting the news. It draws on data from 24 conversations in developmental disabilities clinics, internal medicine clinics and HIV counselling and testing clinics in the USA. The analysis shows that participants initiate meaning assessment sequences whereby one p...

background: the manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. despite the fact that clinicians are responsible for breaking bad news, it has been shown that they lack skills necessary to perform this task. objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore iranian mothers’ experiences to receive bad news abou...

how does a journalist or an editor decide which news is worthy and which is not? according to some media researchers, they refer to a set of news values. one of the best known lists of such news values have been supplied by johan galtung and marie h. ruge. an analytical discussion on news values always refers to this list, which initially intended to cover international events. these factors i...

Reports on what users experience when interacting with currently available news aggregator services. Five news aggregator services were chosen as the most representatives of emerging trends in this area of research and a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods were used for data collection involving users from the academic and research community. Forty-five responses were received f...

Purpose: The aim of present research was the comparative study of white marriage news based on effective news components in the Persian section of Al-Alam, Persian BBC and Voice of America news sites. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research community was the white marriage news of Persian section of Al-Alam, P...

Credit ratings convey credit risk information to participants in financial markets, including investors, issuers, intermediaries and regulators. This paper proposes an automatic text analysis system for financial news and analyzes the effects of news coverage and sentiment factors on credit ratings. Our experiment results show that firms with higher news coverage received worse ratings in the n...