Interesting News Research Articles

News Popularity Prediction in West Sumatera Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average

The increasing public interest in reading online news is undoubtedly a challenge for news portals as online news providers. Therefore, this research was conducted to predict news popularity in West Sumatra through the FajarSumbar.com news portal using the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model. This research aims to develop a forecasting model that can assist in estimating the popularity of each news category so that news portals can devise more effective content strategies. The data used in this study includes the number of monthly news impressions from March 2021 to June 2024, which are grouped into various categories such as Religion Culture, Industrial Economics, Criminal Law, etc. Using the ARIMA method, which can handle time series data and overcome data non-stationarity problems through differencing and the use of grid search in optimization to find the best parameters based on the lowest evaluation metric. The results show that the ARIMA model can provide reasonably accurate predictions, although the level of accuracy varies between categories. The Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) values obtained are as follows: Religion Culture 26%, Industrial Economy 29%, Criminal Law 29%, Health 40%, Sports 38%, Tourism Entertainment 26%, Education 27%, Government Politics 31%, Social Environment 27%, and Technology 51%. The Technology and Health news categories show higher error rates than others, while Religion Culture and Tourism Entertainment have better accuracy rates. Thus, the ARIMA model can be used to predict future trends in news popularity, helping editors plan content strategies that are more relevant and interesting to readers. However, improvements are needed for news categories that have high variability.

Comparative Analysis of Mint vs Business Standard Newspaper in Ahmedabad

This newspaper caters to readers with a strong interest in business news, particularly in India. Leaning towards a national perspective, Mint prioritizes comprehensive financial journalism and market analysis. Their content is tailored for readers who want to stay informed about broader economic trends and make informed financial decisions. This might translate to a stronger pulse on the city's business environment and a quicker response to local developments. They likely have a print edition readily available in Ahmedabad and a digital edition with subscription options. Primarily a national publication, Mint's availability in Ahmedabad might be limited to the digital sphere. While they might offer print editions delivered to major cities, their local presence might be less pronounced than Business Standard's. They likely have a welldeveloped online platform with free and paid subscription options. Both newspapers have established reputations, but their writing styles can differ. Mint might have a more concise and analytical approach, while Business Standard could offer a more narrative style. This can give you valuable insights into how others perceive their strengths, weaknesses, and suitability for different reader preferences. If a national perspective on financial markets and concise analysis is your focus, Mint might be a better fit. If you prioritize in-depth business news and local coverage, Business Standard could be ideal

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This study is a qualitative study that presents the role and meaning of news comments and implications for elementary school news literacy education by deeply analyzing elementary school students’ acceptance of news comments. For elementary school students, news comments are a mechanism that stimulates interest and interest in news and social issues, and are an auxiliary device that helps them understand news. In addition, news comments frequently expose the context of free communication between people so that they can indirectly participate in social and political conversations and contact various disagreements. And for elementary school students, news comments are a role model for learning the competencies necessary as citizens, such as the attitude of being interested in and participating in social problems and how to express opinions on social problems. According to the results of the study, elementary school students are exposed to negative communication such as criticism and slander by encountering news in the online world, but even in them, they have screened jade stones and showed the possibility of accepting sound social discourse. Therefore, this study demanded serious reflection and reflection on the online news comments and comment spaces currently being produced, and suggested that it is necessary to find ways to use news comments educationally to foster healthy citizenship for future generations. In order to increase the effectiveness of news literacy education for elementary school students in the future, it is necessary to actively utilize news comments in the form of pros and cons and provide educational materials applying various news comment frames to supplement the cognitive abilities of elementary school students. And concrete educational measures should be prepared for practical use and critical acceptance of social approval clues.

Public money well spent? Unintended consequences and challenges arising from Trans-Tasman public journalism funds

ABSTRACT This paper identifies various issues associated with the increase in direct public funding of news media across Australasia. We conduct a comparative analysis of outcomes from two Trans-Tasman public interest journalism funds: the Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF) in New Zealand and the Public Interest News Gathering Fund in Australia (PING). By investigating the allocation of funding, the paper identifies risks and unintended consequences arising from the direct public funding of private media. It also raises issues that policymakers need to address when drafting media policies in the future as government support can lead to negative outcomes. While a substantial proportion of the public money of the two funds was aimed at retaining newsroom roles, redundancies and newsroom closures have continued, highlighting the limitations of these specific government interventions.

GIIE: A Graph-based News Recommendation Model with Intrinsic Interest Enhancement

News recommendation aims to offer potentially interesting news items to a specific user, guided by his historical browsing behaviors. Existing methods failed to effectively address the knowledge sparsity issue that the user may have sparse behaviors and the news may own sparse features. To address the problem, we propose a graph-based news recommendation model with intrinsic interest enhancement, named GIIE , leveraging intrinsic interests and neighbor information to enhance the representation of sparse users and news. Concretely, to fully take advantage of the intrinsic interests, we design an interest encoder based on an interest-type graph with a learnable structure, and explore the interest embeddings from news types. Then we inject the obtained interest embeddings into news, and represent the user by aggregating the clicked news under the same interest and across different interests sequentially. These interests can build a bridge between users, so that users with sparse behaviors can implicitly share knowledge with other users, thereby enhancing their representation. To properly introduce the neighbor knowledge, we propose a graph-based neighbor enhancing mechanism. First, we design a news relation graph and a user relation graph in encoders. Then based on these graphs, we take the attention module to aggregate additional knowledge from neighbors, enhancing sparse news and user representations. To avoid feature ambiguity, we adopt a way to represent the current item (user and news) and its neighbors separately, and then do adaptive aggregation. We evaluate GIIE on the public news recommendation dataset MIND-Large and MIND-Small. Experimental results show that our model can solve the knowledge sparse problem, and outperforms current state-of-the-art models in four indicators.

The Need for Nigerian Journalists to Re-Define News Values

Recent surveys show a decline in public interest in traditional news outlets like newspapers and television, possibly due to the constant exposure to negative stories that can lead to compassion fatigue. The major challenge is constituted by the adopted western news values which neglect our norms and focuses on praise singing the ruling elites. This article argues that, in order for Nigerian Journalists to effectively serve the nation's distinct socio-political context, traditional news ideals need to be redefined to fit our societal realities. Sensationalism and elitism are frequently given precedence over people-centered reporting in the current news values, which are primarily derived from Western media. Because of this misalignment, there is a gulf between the public and the media, which upholds social inequities and under-represents voices from marginalized groups. Nigerian Journalists should prioritize topics, stories and events that are important to their communities, support developmental or solution journalism, and hold authority figures accountable by reframing news principles. Adopting contextualized news values that represent Nigeria's political, cultural, and economic realities is necessary for this redefinition. The study suggests a framework for redefining news ideals that focus on social responsibility, local relevance, and people-centered reporting. Nigerian Journalists can recover their position as advocates for social change and catalysts for national advancement by implementing this approach. This would enhance development and audience engagement. Otherwise the public often diverts and avoids news when it makes them feel negative. And most of the western news values adopted relegate and places the masses in disadvantage disposition.

Digital News Audiences in Mexico: Age Segment Analysis

This study aims to determine whether news consumption, media trust, interest in news, and political affinity are correlated with the generational segment of the market, measured by the age of the digital audience. Furthermore, this study seeks to verify whether age is associated with digital audiences’ paying attention to journalists or news brands. This research is based on a survey of 2,005 people in Mexico by YouGov in 2022, commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford as part of its annual Digital News Report. The statistical method used was the chi-square test of independence between qualitative variables. The results showed that age correlates with consumption habits, media trust, interest in news, and citizens’ political affinity for digital audiences in Mexico. Moreover, age relates to whether digital audiences focus on journalists or news brands in Latin America. This study delves into the characteristics of digital audiences in Mexico and contributes from a media economics, media management, and media marketing perspective. It also helps media organizations assess their market strategy, market segmentation, and target markets based on the characteristics of digital news audiences in Mexico.

Integrating social media technology for the awareness of ancient manuscript preservation

Purpose This paper aims to explore opportunities for using social media technology to support the awareness in the digital environment of ancient manuscript preservation, as well as to share Indonesian libraries’ experiences in leveraging those media. Design/methodology/approach This paper relies on a literature review to discuss the implementation of social media platforms for preserving and raising awareness of cultural heritage in the form of ancient manuscripts. This paper also observes how some Indonesian libraries use their social media accounts to preserve and raise awareness of ancient manuscript collections. Findings Social media technology provides opportunities for libraries to help perform their cultural heritage preservation function in various and interesting ways. Multiple Indonesian libraries rely on social media technology to preserve and raise awareness of their ancient manuscript collections. Some of those interesting strategies are uploading posts related to the libraries’ ancient manuscript collections; posting “snapshots” of sections of ancient manuscripts; documenting ancient manuscript conservation practices; documenting the involvement of communities in preserving ancient manuscripts; announcing upcoming events and activities related to ancient manuscript studies; and posting interesting news, information and updates about ancient manuscript collections. Originality/value This paper contributes to the existing literature and empirical studies by providing insights into the adoption of social media technology to help preservation and raise awareness of ancient manuscripts in the digital environment. This paper can help those libraries wanting to use their social media accounts to increase and develop their preservation efforts, especially when it comes to ancient manuscript collections.

What is news? Exploring differences in how younger and older cohorts use news in today’s media environment

ABSTRACT This study investigated how younger and older cohorts used news to meet their needs. It used diaries and focus groups with 25 New Zealanders to examine their news sources, characteristics of news they valued, and factors influencing their consumption. Using content analysis, this information was analysed through the lenses of news values and uses and gratifications theory. The findings showed news maintained a critical role in giving people information they wanted to know. Younger participants spent more than half of their time consuming news from non-traditional news sources and valued timeliness and shareability of news. Older participants generally used traditional news sources and had greater interest in elite persons, local news, and news that elicited emotion. Participants emphasised news credibility, suggesting veracity and live news are potential new news values. However, this study suggests personalised news consumption will disrupt the direct journalist/audience relationship and impact understanding of news value frameworks.

News participation is declining: Evidence from 46 countries between 2015 and 2022

Digital media are often praised for having offered new ways to participate with news. But how has participation with news changed in recent years? A pre-registered analysis of survey data from 2015 to 2022 in 46 countries ( N = 577,859) shows that participation with news has declined. This decrease is observed in most countries and for most forms of participation, including liking, sharing, commenting on news on social media and talking about the news offline. The only form of participation that has increased is news sharing via private messaging apps. Overall, participation with news was higher among younger people, the university-educated, those with high interest in news and those with low trust in news. Over time, participation has declined more for those with lower trust in news, those without a bachelor’s degree and for women. Within countries, increases in political polarization were associated with lower participation.

A Servant of the Authorities or an Ally of Civil Society? The Role Perceptions and Role Performance of Local Interloper Media

ABSTRACT The study explores the journalistic role perceptions and role performance of local interloper media practitioners in Finland. The examined media include non-commercial outlets funded by a city administration or other local authorities as well as commercial online-only outlets. The outlets are conceptualised as interlopers because they apply journalistic forms, styles and methods in their content but do not necessarily consider themselves as journalists or adhere to the ethical guidelines of journalism. The outlets’ role performance is analysed in their published content, while the practitioners’ role perceptions are analysed via semi-structured interviews. The analysis reveals that the non-commercial practitioners primarily perceive and perform the loyal facilitator role, whereas the commercial practitioners serve the disseminator role. The watchdog role is virtually absent among all the examined outlets. The lack of critical perspectives indicates a selective and strategic adoption of journalistic roles aimed at enhancing public relations efforts and appearing more trustworthy and interesting to audiences or advertisers. The investigated outlets and practitioners therefore challenge the monopoly of local legacy news media over local news. Their adoption of certain journalistic roles while abstaining from critical scrutiny of local authorities shows a tendency to disguise political or private ambitions as public interest news.

Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news topic and news engagement in social media

Nations engage in a nuanced competition to achieve soft power through social media on a global scale. Exploring the intricate dynamics, research endeavors focus on unraveling the mechanisms by which national media endeavors not only captivate a diverse international audience but also amplify their influence through carefully crafted narratives. However, extant research falls short in both theoretical and empirical examinations of the intricate interplay between news content and news engagement. This research examines in depth the news content strategy employed by China's national media for global communication, focusing on 6632 YouTube videos of CGTN (China Global Television Network) from May 2021 to August 2023. Specifically, utilizing BERTopic machine learning techniques, we identified 16 distinct news topics and associated with news engagement metrics (e.g., number of views, likes, and comments). Our results reveal a pattern of selective engagement and avoidance by international audiences, particularly in their significant interest in geopolitical and technological topics, while showing less interest in Chinese cultural and social news. This study offers valuable insights into the effectiveness of national media's digital storytelling strategy, shedding light on audience preferences and areas for potential recalibration in content dissemination.

Impact of excessive interest in news related to the war on mental health in conditions of big invasion and information war: experience of Ukraine

IntroductionAn important component of the russian-Ukrainian war is information war. russia conducts psychological diversions the purpose of which is harming and disorganization the population’s mental health by reducing the ability of criticality thinking and formation of various stress-associated, anxiety-depressive, phobic, etc. disorders.ObjectivesTo study the impact of information about the war on the mental health of Ukrainian population.Methods186 Ukrainian people voluntarily completed the questionnaire in Google format. It contains tools for assessing the level of stress PTCI, anxiety response GAD-7, depression PHQ-9, the intolerance to the uncertainty (IUS-12 in G.Gromova’ adaptation) and developed by us “Test for the detection of disorders related to the obsession with news about the russian-Ukrainian war” (M.Markova et al, 2022).ResultsMost of the civilian population of Ukraine demonstrate excessive fascination with news associated with the war, with almost 50% have all the signs of clinically formed addiction.Psychopathological anxiety and depressive manifestations of varying intensity are characterized by more than 30% of the population. Almost 80% suffer from the effects of psycho-traumatic factors, of which 45% are observed by post-stress maladaptation, 25% - by signs of PTSD (23%) or PTSD (2%). The presence of anxiety-depressive response does not depend on the level of obsession of the news: among persons with signs and/or clinical psychopathological symptoms, there are persons both excessively passionate about information and with a safe level of use.Any high level of interest of news (addiction/dangerous/risky) has a close direct correlation with the intensity of pathological stressful response and the level of tolerance to uncertainty.All persons with anxiety-depressive and pathological stressful response symptoms, and 58% of people with excessive fascination with news are characterized by low tolerance to uncertainty. This can serve as a prognostic marker of development of maladaptation and testify to the leading role of a lack of tolerance to uncertainty in its development in wartime.42 % of people who have an excessive interest in news, haven’t signs of maladaptive response. They use the interest of information as a stress management’s resource, which has a positive effect on the mental state and increases the ability to successfully function in uncertainty.Conclusions The development of information and psychological stability by increasing tolerance to uncertainty is a perspective area of research in the field of mental protection of the population of Ukraine.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Where It Really Matters: Few-Shot Environmental Conservation Media Monitoring for Low-Resource Languages

Environmental conservation organizations routinely monitor news content on conservation in protected areas to maintain situational awareness of developments that can have an environmental impact. Existing automated media monitoring systems require large amounts of data labeled by domain experts, which is only feasible at scale for high-resource languages like English. However, such tools are most needed in the global south where the news of interest is mainly in local low-resource languages, and far fewer experts are available to annotate datasets on a sustainable basis. In this paper, we propose NewsSerow, a method to automatically recognize environmental conservation content in low-resource languages. NewsSerow is a pipeline of summarization, in-context few-shot classification, and self-reflection using large language models (LLMs). Using at most 10 demonstration example news articles in Nepali, NewsSerow significantly outperforms other few-shot methods and can achieve comparable performance with models fully fine-tuned using thousands of examples. With NewsSerow, Organization X has been able to deploy the media monitoring tool in Nepal, significantly reducing their operational burden, and ensuring that AI tools for conservation actually reach the communities that need them the most. NewsSerow has also been deployed for countries with other languages like Colombia.

Examining Active News Avoidance Across Countries: A Multilevel Moderation Analysis of News Interests, News Trust, and Press Freedom

Previous studies have identified various individual factors explaining news avoidance, but the understanding of how these factors function within the broader political information environment is limited. This study, leveraging a large-scale cross-national survey, reveals that the relationships between individual news interests, news trust, and news avoidance differ across countries with varying levels of press freedom. In nations where the press is strong and free, personal preferences minimally influence individuals’ active avoidance of hard news. News avoidance is not solely a product of individual-level attributes. Rather, the impact of these individual factors is significantly shaped by the overarching political information environment.

STIGMATIZATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL MENTAL DISABILITIES THROUGH THE MENTION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

Stigma against persons with psychosocial disabilities in the mass media causes people to be afraid to seek help and open up in public spaces. Stigmanisai in the mass media occurs through the designation ODGJ or People with Mental Disorders which should since the Law on Persons with Disabilities be referred to as persons with psychosocial mental disabilities. The study used the CADS method or Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies with the keywords mention of OGDJ and the relationship between word frequencies that appeared in the mass media whose results showed that the word ODGJ was dominated by news related to law enforcement through the institution of police power at various levels as bourgeois actions in the public sphere. The news also shows more about actions that in theory stigma as behavior that is strongly disapproved of by the social normal that is full of normal. This is a form of mass media framing of psychosocial mental people by serving the value of society as an interesting news article for readers and viewers to enjoy rather than advocating for people and disability issues as social justice issues that require broad access to appropriate treatment.

Minat Baca Berita Generasi Y dan Z Melalui Headline Instagram Carousel Liputan6.com

There are various personal reasons someone is interested in reading the news. Apart from the level of education, the abundance of information, generational differences, even production strategies and the appearance of news publications shape people's new habits in consuming news. There are those who believe that the appearance of news packaging influences interest in reading news and in other side interest in reading news depends on the substance of the content. This research tests whether there is an influence of the Liputan6.com headline carousel on generation Y and Z's reading interest in news content. Liputan6.com carousel content is posted on its official Instagram account. Carousel content is one of the results of technological developments in the field of journalism in terms of news publications. The carousel platform is relatively new because it was released in 2017 and is still used today. The theory used in this research is SOR proposed by Hovlan, Janis and Kelley. This theory assumes that the stimulation provided by the mass media in the form of news has an effect on the communicant. The research uses a quantitative approach with a questionnaire instrument. The data results were processed using Simple Linear Regression Test statistics to find the influence of the carousel headline and the quality of the carousel content on the reading interest of generations Y and Z, both partially and simultaneously. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that there is an influence from carousel headlines on generation Y and Z's reading interest in Instagram @liputan6 carousel content of 39.4%.

Social-Educational Factors of Children’s Citizenship Education in Basic School: the Context of Lithuania

Citizenship education is a relevant issue of education and international policy in many countries, including Lithuania, especially due to the current tense geopolitical situation. In 2022-2023, after updating general education curricula, citizenship education competence is included in all subjects of general education. According to the updated Fundamentals of Citizenship programme for grades 9–10, students can develop citizenship competences by participating in nonformal education and engaging in other activities related to citizenship education. To achieve the aim of the research presented in the article – to analyze the social-educational factors of children’s citizenship education in basic school – an empirical study was carried out, for which the Diagnostic Questionnaire for the Situation of Citizenship Education by Valuckienė et al. (2017) was used. The study made it possible to distinguish the social-educational factors important for citizenship education: the child’s trust in the school staff, the child’s relationship with community events, adults’ respect for the child’s opinion, the child’s interest in news and the child’s participation in school self-government. The results of the empirical study confirmed the hypotheses: 1) respect for the child’s opinion is moderately positively related to the child’s involvement in the life of the school community, participation in school self-government and 2) adults’ respect for the child’s opinion is weakly positively related to the child’s trust in the school staff.

Conversation in the News: Comparing News Coverage of Fukushima Water Dispute in AP and CGTN

This research paper examines and compares the coverage of the Fukushima water dispute by the Associated Press (AP) and China Global Television Network (CGTN). The study utilizes framing theory analysis to identify differences arising from biases and priorities in news reporting. The paper analyzes the framing used by both outlets and discusses variations in perspectives on Japan's plan and responsibility. It examines the attributions of different narratives and their impact on the audience in each country. Possible causes for these differences are explored, including geopolitical factors, political polarization, and cultural influences. The findings highlight the significant role of media in shaping public opinion and the importance of understanding the diverse influences that contribute to news coverage. The paper concludes that recognizing these influences and seeking diverse viewpoints is crucial for developing a comprehensive understanding of complex issues. However, it acknowledges the limitations of the analysis and highlights the need to consider editorial biases and commercial interests in news reporting.

News Waves: Hard News, Soft News, Fake News, Rumors, News Wavetrains.

We discuss the spread of a piece of news in a population. This is modeled by SIR model of epidemic spread. The model can be reduced to a nonlinear differential equation for the number of people affected by the news of interest. The differential equation has an exponential nonlinearity and it can be approximated by a sequence of nonlinear differential equations with polynomial nonlinearities. Exact solutions to these equations can be obtained by the Simple Equations Method (SEsM). Some of these exact solutions can be used to model a class of waves associated with the spread of the news in a population. The presence of exact solutions allow to study in detail the dependence of the amplitude and the time horizon of the news waves on the wave parameters, such as the size of the population, initial number of spreaders of the piece of the news, transmission rate, and recovery rate. This allows for recommendations about the change of wave parameters in order to achieve a large amplitude or appropriate time horizon of the news wave. We discuss five types of news waves on the basis of the values of the transmission rate and recovery rate-types A, B, C, D, and E of news waves. In addition, we discuss the possibility of building wavetrains by news waves. There are three possible kinds of wavetrains with respect of the amplitude of the wave: increasing wavetrain, decreasing wavetrain, and mixed wavetrain. The increasing wavetrain is especially interesting, as it is connected to an increasing amplitude of the news wave with respect to the amplitude of the previous wave of the wavetrain. It can find applications in advertising, propaganda, etc.