this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

Abstract Rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. This study examines how the Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in Azzaman, an online Iraqi newspaper. To this purpose, twelve opinion articles from Azzaman Iraqi newspaper, published from January 2013 to June 2013 were analyzed. The findin...

Research has indicated that although online interactive features are not used by the visitors of different web sites, such features might be appreciated by the visitors. This paper examines the use and appreciation of interactive features by visitors on Swedish newspaper web sites. Utilizing an online survey focusing on different traits and habits of newspaper web site visitors, the study prese...

In 2015, the Danish newspaper industry continued its decade-long decline of the printed newspaper circulation. The main cause of the decline is the change in preferences of readers, who prefer online news sources. This change in preferences and the resulting decline in circulation have created economic uncertainty for the legacy newspaper firms: while the business model of printed media provide...

The development of the internet has drastically changed the newspaper industry, and the way people read news stories [3]. Newspapers are shifting from print to online version, with some unexpected results [1, 2, 6]. Good news for the newspaper industry? The proliferation of news aggregators such as Google News1 is blamed for killing the “old media”. With these aggregators, people visit a newspa...

The newspaper industry is facing a new innovation, i.e. the e-newspaper published on e-paper technology, which holds the potential of replacing the printed newspaper in the future, heavily reducing production and distribution costs, thereby catching the interest of the industry. As the newspaper firms lately have experienced declining subscription and advertising revenues, they have been forced...

In this paper we address the problem of analyzing web log data collected at a typical online newspaper site. We propose a two-way clustering technique based on probability theory. On one hand the suggested method clusters the readers of the online newspaper into user groups of similar browsing behaviour, where the clusters are determined solely based on the click streams collected. On the other...