We develop an equilibrium model to analyze the role of the media in electoral competition. Policy payoffs in the model are state dependent. We show that voters cannot infer the state directly from off-equilibrium party policies. As a result, party policies do not converge to the median voter’s ideal policy when the media report only party strategies. News analyses that convey information about ...

This study examines whether, as competition for readers and viewers increases among news producers, media organizations are focusing on hiring individuals whose talents most reflect the specific communication strengths and style of a particular medium, or whether news executives still seek more traditional journalistic skills in applicants. The study also examined differences in the types of ap...

The phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World newspaper in Britain has prompted international debate about media practices and regulation. It is timely to broaden the discussion about journalistic ethics and conduct to include consideration of the impact of media practices upon the population's health. Many commercial organisations cultivate relationships with journ...

News On Demand System using speech technology usually employs automatic speech transcriptions to retrieve the news data. In the retrieval, users specify a few keywords or sentences as a query and the related news data can be retrieved using the speech transcription. However when users can’t give a query clearly, a video shot of news program which users are watching will become a good query to r...

Given the rapid growth of participatory media content such as blogs, user created videos, and podcasts, there is a need to understand and answer the following kind of questions: What is participatory media good for? Does it improve the effectiveness of news media? If so, then why? What are the underlying processes of human communication that can explain how people perceive and interpret the inf...

As media organizations embrace the Internet as a viable media, new models of publishing are being investigated. This is due both to the need to find a new economics of customerdriven publishing services and to the emergence of a more demanding and technologically empowered customer. Traditional media channels have not been suitable to efficient customization. News content has been produced for ...