News media often leverage documents to find ideas for stories, while being critical of the
frames and narratives present. Developing angles from a document such as a press release …

Universities have expanded their public relation (PR) departments in recent years. At the
same time, news media have had to cope with reduced resources. This has led scholars to …

Topics and frames are at the heart of various theories in communication science and other
social sciences, making their measurement of key interest to many scholars. The current …

While it is generally acknowledged that news agencies play a pivotal role in the current
news landscape, empirical insights into the extent of news media's reliance on agency copy …

The structural crisis of the news media and the according lack of resources for journalism
has led to several types of concentration in most Western media markets. Not only is …

Press releases disseminate selected information and promote particular issues. Although
several courts regularly publish press releases on decisions, it is unclear which policy …

This research note reports empirical observations on public communication of research
institutes within universities, using data from an international quantitative study in eight …

This article presents a novel typology for analysing the routinisation of news and daily
newsroom practices. Drawing inspiration from the work of Sigal, Tuchman and others, the …

Motivated by the debate around “churnalism” and online media, this paper develops,
evaluates, and validates a computational method for detecting shared text between different …

News agencies (press association, wire service) over the years have operated in almost
every country in the world. Many of them are now facing significant transformations, and …