Local Daily Newspaper Research Articles

Content or Design? Factors Influencing the Circulation of American and German Newspapers

What is it that helps newspapers gain or at least keep readers; is it the specific content they offer or measures of design? In an explorative secondary analysis, local daily newspapers in Germany are compared to daily newspapers in the US. The newspapers used in this study were analyzed twice, both in the 1980s and the mid-1990s. In the US, visualizing information and displaying it more generously were more important for positive developments in circulation than in Germany. In Germany, community orientation and an increased retrievability of content helped newspapers secure their sales figures. These different recipes for newspaper success point to cultural differences in what reading a newspaper means.

Evolución de los sistemas de almacenamiento y distribución de fotografías en el diario regional La verdad

Title: Evolution of the still image archive at the local daily newspaper La Verdad Abstract: By studying the evolution of a local newspaper's photographic archive, one can appreciate how new technologies have permitted improvements in the way archives function and are maintained. These changes are reflected in the flow of information at the daily paper La Verdad. The co-ordination and management of the entire process is under the control of the documentalist, who is responsible for administering and maintaining an efficient and effective photograph collection for the newspaper.

International Conflict Coverage in Japanese Local Daily Newspapers

This study examines international news coverage in local newspapers in Japan, a country with one of the most influential economies in the world. The study shows that local daily Japanese newspapers dependent on wire services for international copy devote more of their space to international news and produce more international news about conflict and disaster than do newspapers that do not depend on the services. International news coverage appears not to be related to circulation size. The authors compare the results to similar characteristics of U.S. dailies.

A Structurationist Interpretation of Community Activism during School Closures

Structuration theory is applied to produce a typology of rules and resources that community representatives could use in their activism to keep open a facility slated for closure. This typology is compared with the rules and the resources that the community representatives used during a school-closure review in Essex County, Ontario, Canada, as inferred from a computerized content analysis of 138 letters published in the local daily newspaper. The community representatives' primary authoritative resource was their knowledge about the students' education and their communities. Their primary rules were the political ones for influencing the local and the provincial politicians. This structurationist interpretation clarifies the point that their community activism with these resources and rules did not solely explain the reprieve of the schools from closure.

The analysis of rank ordered preference data based on Bradley-Terry Type Models

In this article we propose an approach to study the effect of consumer-specific information on (complete) rank ordered preference data by means of Bradley-Terry type models. The main idea is to transform the ranking data into paired comparison data, which can be modelled within the Generalised Linear Model framework by means of a log-linear model for a corresponding contingency table. Therefore, standard software can be used to estimate model parameters and a goodness-of-fit can be assessed in the usual way. This approach allows to simultaneously estimate object-specific parameters which, in the marketing context, can be interpreted as attractions of the analysed objects, as well as subject-object interaction parameters that represent the effects of consumer-specific variables on the attractions. The interaction parameters offer a statistically motivated approach for customer segmentation and market targeting. The outlined methodology is applied to preference judgements within a local daily newspaper market. It is shown that certain socio-economic characteristics of the consumers have significant influences on their preference structures.

Infecciones nosocomiales por hongos oportunistas: análisis de una serie de noticias publicadas en la prensa española

To study an outbreak of media news related to nosocomial infections due to opportunistic fungi in Spanish hospitals. any news related to possible nosocomial infection due to opportunistic fungi in Spanish hospitals, published in national or local daily newspapers, over the pre-epidemic (July-December, 1998) and epidemic periods (January-June, 1999). All news were reviewed and identified using global press reports summaries, prepared by two independent sources, and were analyzed by three different observers. Over the pre-epidemic period there were not any news related to nosocomial infections due to opportunistic fungi. Over the epidemic period, a total of 218 news were identified, 154 (71%) published in national newspapers and 64 (29%) in local ones. We analyzed separately 18 editorials or opinion articles related to this subject. The epidemic curve (distribution of news by week) showed an incidence news peak at week 5 (102 news, 46.7% of all news published). The media mentioned up to 19 different hospitals as institutions with possible cases of nosocomial fungal infections. After week 8, news incidence drop, and remain thereafter at minimum levels. The example provided by the analysis of this outbreak of media news, related to nosocomial infections by Aspergillus an other opportunistic fungi, is useful to allow us understand how some medical news arise, develop and were transmitted. The public alert situation created in Spain was remarkable, and it is likely that there was a transient loss of confidence in the safety of public health institutions. Today's medicine requires a great and better openness to the media, and a better cooperation between both parts.

Sudden death in Cork and Kerry - results of a one year survey and a review of the literature

The aims of this survey were to determine the prevalence of premonitory symptoms and the cardiac risk factor profile in persons dying suddenly and also to assess the awareness of their relatives of cardiac symptoms and risk factors. Five hundred and ninety three questionnaires were sent to relatives of persons announced as having died suddenly in the local daily newspaper. Of 336 replies received, 319 replies were used for analysis. One hundred and thirty seven persons were identified who died within one hour of symptom onset or during sleep suggesting probable sudden cardiac death. Forty three of these experienced recent onset chest pain and 18 percent onset ‘indigestion’, and a further five experienced both prodromal symptoms.

Abolition and Reinstatement of Capital Punishment during the Progressive Era and Early 20th Century

Ten American states abolished the death penalty between 1897 and 1917, but by the end of the 1930s, eight of these states had reinstated capital punishment. Not surprisingly, many of these abolitionist states were relatively homogeneous. Information ranging from individual motivations and tactics to the economic trends and the demographic characteristics of an area were drawn on to analyze developments in each state. Existing records indicate that most of the initial abolition laws had the support of the state's governors or a major local daily newspaper. While abolition was associated with economic boom, reinstatement occurred during economic recession and depression. Along with such issues of social context, reinstatement was triggered by the threat of lynchings and political radicals, since abolition gave those outside of government a monopoly on lethal violence.

Correction

Due to an error in typesetting, some material was omitted from an article by Paul J. Lavrakas and Jack K. Holley, “The Image of Daily Newspapers in Their Local Markets,” which appeared on pages 51–60 in the Spring 1989 issue of Newspaper Research Journal (10:3). Copy on page 55 should have appeared as follows. The editors apologize to the authors and to readers. Measures of Newspaper Image Using select questionnaire items from the 1985 ASNE national credibility study, perceptions regarding different aspects of newspaper image were gathered in each of the six newspaper markets. Items were asked of all respondents, not merely readers. The first item was a forced-choice dichotomy that asked respondents to judge the concern held by local reporters about the effect of their writing on the persons written about. Respondents were asked which ofthe following they agreed with the most: “Most (name of local daily) reporters are just concerned with getting a good story and don't worry very much about hurting people,” or “Most (name of local daily) reporters worry about how their stories may hurt people.” The second item was a forced-choice dichotomy that asked respondents to judge whether the local daily newspaper protected the interests of all people or of just a certain segment of the public. Respondents were asked which of the following they agreed with most: “The (name of local daily) looks out for ordinary people,” or “The (name of local daily) looks out mainly for powerful people.” The third item…

Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Alternatives as Portrayed in UK Local Press Coverage

A content analysis was conducted of all UK local daily newspaper articles appearing in the first half of 1981, concerned with nuclear power or renewable alternatives. Evaluative coverage of these technologies was compared on dimensions found to characterise energy issues (economic, environmental, technological, future/political, physical and psychological risks). In addition, comparisons were drawn between coverage in areas ‘threatened’ with the potential siting of a new nuclear power station and that in ‘unaffected’ areas. The development stage of the two technologies and the degree of ‘factual’ as opposed to ‘polemical’ coverage they attracted were also recorded. In evaluative terms, nuclear power was evaluated overwhelmingly negatively, and alternatives positively. Moreover, this pattern showed a degree of consistency irrespective of the dimension of evaluation. The ‘threatened’ subsample was most negatively disposed towards nuclear power. Polemical coverage was greater for nuclear power than for alternatives and greatest in the ‘threatened’ sample. This category also contained articles more likely to attract attention because of their greater headline size and length. Whereas most coverage of nuclear power concentrates on preoperational or operational stages, coverage of alternatives is more concerned with its formative and planning stages. These findings were related to people's attitudes concerning nuclear power, and the growth in antinuclear feeling in particular.

Daily Newspaper Advertising Rates, Local Media Cross-Ownership, Newspaper Chains, and Media Competition

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Effects of Editorial and Production Practices on Satisfaction with the Use of Local Daily Newspapers

Effects of Editorial and Production Practices on Satisfaction with the Use of Local Daily Newspapers

The Basic Newspaper Pattern

paper situation: Competition no longer exists among the local daily newspapers in at least 87.3 per cent of the cities in which dailies are now published, and the number of contested fields diminishes annually. This tendency-and parallel tendencies in the weekly newspaper and the press-radio fields-has confronted editors and publishers with new responsibilities. Editor & Publisher, the leading trade paper in the field, has characterized this situation's serious danger as follows: