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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"newsworthy"”.
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Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… retrieval and filtering system for surfacing newsworthy legislative data. Within STRAINER we define and implement a process pipeline by which information regarding legislative bill discussion events can be collected from a variety of sources and aggregated into feature sets suitable for …
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Four Essays on Managerial Incentives
… estimators rejects the ""news is no longer newsworthy"" idea."
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The social construction of acid rain: The paper says it looks like rain today.
… 6, 1979, when the press considered the subject newsworthy. The press constructed acid rain using familiar symbolism and imagery that would get the attention of the readership. However, due to the newsgathering techniques of journalists, more specifically their selection of sources, the …
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The Impact of Campaign Visits on Predicted Voter Choice in the 2016 Presidential Election
… to first determine the impact of particular newsworthy events on predicted voter choice. The data show that the impact of these events dissipates prior to Election Day, leading to a minimal impact on voter decision making. Additionally, data were analyzed on the occurrence of both candidate …
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An association rule dynamics and classification approach to event detection and tracking in Twitter.
… issue of computational challenges of extracting newsworthy contents from Twitter noisy data. Considering the enormous volume of data Twitter generates, users append the hashtag (#) symbol as prefix to keywords in tweets. Hashtag labels describe the content of tweets. The use of hashtags also …
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The mediatization of educational policies in Chile: discourses and governance in a neoliberal education field
… in order to examine how they fashion their newsworthy criteria about educational policies. This dissertation suggests that the walls maintaining the boundaries around contemporary educational systems have all but collapsed under the weight of powerfully commodifying discourses generated via …
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Advancing sustainability indicators through text mining: a feasibility demonstration
… Some chronic problems that are considered less newsworthy proved more difficult to track with news articles and may be better monitored using other types of online media, such as blogs and reports. Such use of online media can improve the incorporation of society’s values in the process of …
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News Values and Information Subsidies: How Organizations Build the Agenda on Social and Traditional Media
… there is a set of news values that make a story newsworthy. This study attempts to link these bodies of research on agenda building and news values by examining how the presence of news values in information subsidies affects subsequent media coverage. It also extends these concepts and theories …
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A Performer's Analysis of Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel: Song Cycle for High Voice and Piano; a Lecture Recital Together with the Role of Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites by F. Poulenc and Two Recitals of Selected Works by H. Purcell, F. Schubert, S. Prokofieff, E. Chausson, W. A. Mozart, R. Schumann and G. Fauré
… in Paris and her accomplishments were considered newsworthy during her lifetime (1893- 1918). She obtained a much sought-after publishing contract with Ricordi. Her more famous sister, Nadia Boulanger, felt that Lili was the better composer of the two, and her peers and music professors clearly …
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Using the Local News: Campaigns, Newspapers, and Accountability
… establish a regional presence and conduct newsworthy events, allowing them to cultivate relationships with reporters and earn coverage more easily. I use an original dataset of local newspaper coverage in three elections to demonstrate that local newspapers in areas where campaigns invest …
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'Taking things personally' : young Muslim women in South Australia discuss identity, religious racism and media representations
… used, and the kinds of stories deemed newsworthy. Numerous examples of such racism are presented in the discourse analysis of representations of Muslims and Islam in the two newspapers. This thesis also addresses the direct impact of such representations on the participants in the …
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Factors influential in the coverage of environmental issues by the South African press
… coverage (to determine what made the issues newsworthy), and the existence of editorial bias toward or against the environment. Interviews were conducted with a small sample of news personnel and individuals active in the Sappi effluent spill issue to contextualise the results of the content …
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Beyond the milk carton: strategies for creating and allowing a space for engaging with personal narratives from family members about missing persons
… race, gender and ethnicity can influence how 'newsworthy' certain crimes or stories are considered to be (Pritchard and Hughes 1997, Gruenewald, Pizarro and Chermak 2009). Although social media allows a flow of information that is immediate (So, 2011), the information is still mostly centred …
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Strategi media relations activity dalam mencapai publisitas program Karcher Cleans Monas di Jakarta
… the information they will share to public is newsworthy. Thus, this research wants to reveal the Media Relations Activity used in achieving the maximum publicity on Karcher Cleans Monas program and its positive impacts from the strategies used. This research used qualitative approach to be …
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In the Funhouse Mirror: How News Subjects Respond to their Media Reflections
… in an event or issue, often only later deemed newsworthy by journalists, and extends to the repercussions of the coverage in their lives, including feedback they receive from others and effects on their digital reputations. Subjects interpret their news coverage, including its accuracy, in …
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The performance of the Saudi Arabian press during the Gulf conflict, 1990-1991
… movement news was regarded as most 'newsworthy' followed by crime, law and justice, economic and religious news relating to the Gulf conflict. The majority of news tended to be positive in tone and to support the UN resolutions in relation to the Iraqi regime. The leading articles, …
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Outeurskapidentifikasie en mikroblogs : 'n eksploratiewe forensiese analise in 'n digitale era
… now be viewed as an online profile through which newsworthy occurrences can be shared in no time. Communication now also has to be short, the reader wants to know what is happening at a glance. The development of these new technologies is consequently not only changing the ways in which …
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Visual variations of violence – The metonymic framing of violence in the featured images of online news about Africa
… and negative events have always been considered newsworthy, they have always represented news values, and this will certainly remain so in the future as well.
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Examining the Demographic and Situational Characteristics that Predict News-Media Coverage of Bias Homicides:
<p>Recent trends indicate that incidents of hate crime have become increasingly more violent since 2017, resulting in an overall increase in incidents of bias homicide specifically. Knowledge of bias crime among the general public largely derives from news media sources and, unfortunately, research …