The article deals with the place of commentary genre in journalistic heritage a Crimean Tatar journalist, publisher, and educator, Ismail Gasprinsky. authors prove that work I. Gasprinsky reveals an inclination towards “journalism ofopinion”. One leading roles it is played by genre, which editor publisher newspaper, “Perevodchik-Terdzhiman”, expressed his attitude to pressing problems our time....

Using a case study of The Post newspaper in Cameroon, this article examines an alternative model through which a media organization located within the ‘have not’ side of the digital divide is publishing online.A skills inadequacy in the newsroom and a relatively weak telecommunications infrastructure in the country have prompted the newspaper’s online version to not only target a diasporic audi...

Newspaper companies all over the world are faced with the challenge of how to react to digital convergence and reformulation of the media field. The study describes the transfer from paperbased publishing to multi-channel publishing in a Finnish newspaper publishing company and how this was experienced by the participants. The case analysis covers the news products of the company, the editorial...

Authority defines the formal structure of an organization, and is essential for the allocation of resources inside the firm. This paper develops a theory of authority in a multiple layer hierarchy, in which the distribution of authority alleviates incentive incompatibilities. To examine the theory, I collect monthly personnel data from about 200 journalists over three years in a Chinese newspap...

As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and structural principles of classification. We propose a theory of genres as bundles of facets, which correlate with various surface cues, and argue that genre detection based on surface cues is as successful as detection b...

When freedom from Communism largely eliminated overt government censorship of newspapers, other political and business pressures appeared. Consequently, Southeastern European newspaper publishers faced threats to financial viability and editorial integrity. The editor-in-chief of one newspaper in the former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia claims to have found freedom from political and adverti...

While a vast amount of editorial metadata is being actively gathered and used by music collectors and enthusiasts, it is often neglected by music information retrieval and musicology researchers. In this paper we propose to explore Discogs, one of the largest databases of such data available in the public domain. Our main goal is to show how largescale analysis of its editorial metadata can rai...