Twitter is widely seen as being the go to place for breaking news. Recently however, competing Social Media have begun to carry news. Here we examine how Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter report on breaking news. We consider coverage (whether news events are reported) and latency (the time when they are reported). Using data drawn from three weeks in December 2013, we identify 29 major news eve...

Next-generation news video consumption will be more personalized, device agnostic, and pooled from many different sources. The EigenNews system provides each viewer with a personalized newscast filled with stories that matter most to them. While personalized text-based news services already exist, personalized video news streams are still a critically missing technology. Our system records mult...

N ews stories about new treatments, tests, products, and procedures appear daily. Such reporting should ideally be accurate, balanced, and complete so that health care consumers are properly informed and ready to participate in decision making about their health care. If reporting is inaccurate, imbalanced, or incomplete, consumers may have unrealistic expectations and demand of their physician...

This paper examines journalists‘ changing sourcing practices in the context of globalisation and developments in media technologies. It departs from Heinrich‘s concept of ―network journalism‖ that theorizes contemporary news as a product of ―a complex collaborative network of national and transnational information gatherers, producers and disseminators (...) that allows the integration of a gre...

Increasingly, scholars have come to see the news media as playing a pivotal role in shaping whether social movements are able to bring about broader social change. By drawing attention to movements’ issues, claims, and supporters, the news media can shape the public agenda by influencing public opinion, authorities, and elites. Why are some social movement organizations more successful than oth...

During the period of exceedingly critical news coverage surrounding the Monica Lewinsky debacle, President Bill Clinton’s job approval ratings were at some of the highest levels they reached during his tenure in office. Given this public response, many pollsters, pundits, and scholars argued that news coverage of the scandal must have been largely irrelevant to the public. Our view counters the...

Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers navigate to news outlets that are government controlled (GC) and pro-government biased even in the presence of independent news outlets. Does this imply a demand for pro-government bias in the news? Or do consumers enjoy other aspects of GC news outlets such as quality or brand? To answer these questions, we examine consumers’ demand in the Russian online n...