The broadcast media have awesome powertoday, and. as a result, nurses no longer have a choice as to whether or nOI they will use the radio and television media to enhance their professional image. Wcll-dcvclopcd radio and television communication skills can increase a nurse's own success. the success of health care institutions nurses work in. and the success of the nursing profess ion overa ll...

The incredible spreading of mobile phones and recently even of camera phones throughout society is preparing a new kind of news publishing culture. It could enable everybody to be a reporter of events as they happen. Events can be recorded and commented on and finally published immediately to a large audience by the witnesses themselves. Such a grass roots news reporting network over everybody'...

We introduce SAPIENS, a platform for extracting quotations from news wires, associated with their author and context. The originality of SAPIENS is that it relies on a deep linguistic processing chain, which allows for extracting quotations with a wide coverage and an extended definition, including quotations which are only partially quotes-delimited verbatim transcripts. We describe the archit...

By combining news coverage and survey data from the BP oil spill of 2010, this study demonstrates how the media played an important role in connecting the disaster to President Obama. Rather than criticizing Obama from the outset, the spill reporting escalated from a period of event-based, factual coverage to a highly politicized phase of governmental blame attribution. We utilize a natural exp...

BACKGROUND In high-income nations mainstream television news remains an important source of information about both general health issues and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, research on news coverage of health in LMICs is scarce. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The present paper examines the general features of Australian television coverage of LMIC health issues, testing the hypotheses ...

The accelerated news cycle and constantly emerging news-worthy events have led to ‘citizen journalism’ where people who are non-journalists collect, analyze and disseminate news pieces. This paper seeks to leverage tags drawn from iReport, an active citizen journalism Website to detect major news events. The goal is to examine the coverage and efficacy of news detected in iReport vis-à-vis thos...

This study tests the hypothesis that cross-national differences in public awareness of international affairs are attributable to differences in the supply of international news and citizens’ demand for information. Simultaneously, the authors compared the level of news coverage accorded specific “target” subjects in major Swiss and U.S. news organizations and the level of attentiveness to news ...

Stressing relation-building and participatory communication approaches, the Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence worked with journalists to develop a best practices handbook on news coverage of domestic violence murders. This study compares print coverage of domestic violence murders prehandbook (1996-1999) and posthandbook (2000-2002). Significant changes include increased labeling...