"The responsibility needs to be with the press," Berners-Lee responded firmly. "Journalists need to be data-savvy. He reckoned the future of journalism lies in analyzing data in his speech. In his view, journalists could use software to discover the story lurking in datasets released by governments, local authorities, agencies, or any combination of them – even across national borders. "Data-dr...

This paper presents two examples of how nonverbal communication can be automatically detected and interpreted in terms of social phenomena. In particular, the presented approaches use simple prosodic features to distinguish between journalists and non-journalists in media, and extract social networks from turn-taking to recognize roles in different interaction settings (broadcast data and meeti...

Disclosure, the revealing to others of normally confidential or private information, is the most ubiquitous response to financial relationships and conflicts of interest in all sectors of society. Rules govern disclosure in many domains that impact the public. For example, in journalism, the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (2005) states that journalists should “disclos...

Gary Schwitzer In “The Commercialisation of Medical and Scientifi c Reporting” [1], Caulfi eld calls on journalists to ask researchers about the nature of their funding and the fi nancial relationship of the researchers to the sponsor. This is just one principle addressed in a much broader “Statement of Principles” I wrote this past year for the Association of Health Care Journalists (http:⁄⁄ww...

Gary Schwitzer In “The Commercialisation of Medical and Scientifi c Reporting” [1], Caulfi eld calls on journalists to ask researchers about the nature of their funding and the fi nancial relationship of the researchers to the sponsor. This is just one principle addressed in a much broader “Statement of Principles” I wrote this past year for the Association of Health Care Journalists (http:⁄⁄ww...

This theoretical article introduces the construct of CEO celebrity in order to explain how the tendency of journalists to attribute a firm’s actions and outcomes to the volition of its CEO affects such firm. In the model developed here, journalists celebrate a CEO whose firm takes strategic actions that are distinctive and consistent by attributing such actions and performance to the firm’s CEO...

The paper describes the design of a system that is informed by an empirical study of radio journalists. When reporting news it is important to frame the problem and give an appropriate background so that an understandable and representative picture is provided. To frame the problem, or rather to shape how something is going to be reported, is done in continuous discussion among the journalists....

Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have dream job: opportunity get paid do what they love. The present study explores an under-discussed but material aspect of job; namely, how undertake issues hostility. Through lens theory hostility towards press and in-depth interviews with (n = 24), this argues that tend cover hate against their audi...

The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that implements what we call “editorial algorithms” to find possible news events. This fully functional system collects real time geo-tagged information from social media, finds key stories, makes an editorial decision whether...

We present a prototypical content curation dashboard, to be used in the newsroom, and several of its underlying semantic content analysis components (such as named entity recognition, entity linking, summarisation and temporal expression analysis). The idea is to enable journalists (a) to process incoming content (agency reports, twitter feeds, reports, blog posts, social media etc.) and (b) to...