Online journalism has developed in several directions and rhythms, taking different shapes in different online news projects. Scholars have offered empirical evidence that these directions are, in many occasions, far from the utopias envisioned in the 90s. We are still inventing online journalism. A comparative research focused on four case studies of Catalan online newsrooms traces the materia...

BACKGROUND Previous investigations regarding the effects of suicide reports in the media on suicide incidence in Japan have been limited and inconclusive and, although Internet use has greatly increased, its influence on suicide is completely unknown. Thus, the relationship between newspaper articles about suicide, Internet use, and the incidence of suicide in Japan was examined. METHODS A li...

with the advent of constitutional revolution in iran and the increase in people’s knowledge, women’s status changed and ultimately improved. publishing newspaper was one of the women’s attempts to keep their rights. lady somayyeh kahhal was the first woman in this field, as well as ophthalmology in iran. she published the first specialized newspaper for women in iran under the title of danesh (...

The use of websites and web applications to advertise, inform and to execute business transactions has become a standard practice in our modern economy. Customers expect every form of organization that they interact with to develop a web presence. Newspaper organizations cannot afford to overlook this phenomenon for two reasons. First, these organizations compete in the marketplace by being the...

In the context of misinformation and inaccuracies in reporting, knowledge understanding news production processes conditions are crucial for users’ perceptions content. However, research on perception errors influence corrections individual factors is scarce. two online experiments, we investigated corrections, newspaper type, media literacy error severity frequency. Corrections decreased perce...

Can established newspapers leverage their offline brand equity to the online edition in order to create visits and page views? This question is key for publishers, as they are now facing a change only comparable to the advent of the printing press in the fifteenth century. In the present study, both a cross-sectional and a time-series analysis are applied to 12 Spanish newspapers. Our findings ...

This paper adds to the overall understanding of new media adoption in general and the promotion of the enewspaper in particular by empirically studying the preferences and demands of the potential users. The enewspaper is a newspaper published on e-paper technology. The findings in this paper is based on the results from two studies, i.e. an online questionnaire with 3626 respondents and an eva...

Nowadays, technologies involved in Web information distribution services are evolving to adapt themselves to new user requirements. Usually, these new technologies are used separately. This paper presents ELIN (Electronic Newspaper Initiative) project, an European Commission funded project, that tries to integrate the newest standards and technologies involved in multimedia delivery. It has as ...

A large and growing literature confirms that well-designed web-based programs can be effective in preventing or treating several chronic diseases. This study examined how the Internet can deliver information and train community activists and specifically tested the effects of web-based technical assistance on local tobacco control coalitions' efforts to use media advocacy to advance their agend...