Stop the 'Asian tobacco connection' by Abd Razak, Dzulkifli

“…This contradicts an earlier news report that the company will experience an increase in sales volume by at least one per cent over last year, according to an industry analyst, Moreover, the same company also announced its highest share price increase over the last five months, that is, since September 2004.…”
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Infection rate models for COVID-19: Model risk and public health news sentiment exposure adjustments. by Ioannis Chalkiadakis, Hongxuan Yan, Gareth W Peters, Pavel V Shevchenko

“…This is achieved through the development of an exposure adjustment to the force of infection comprised of a purpose-built sentiment index, which we construct from various authoritative public health news reporting. The news reporting media we employed were the New York Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Reuters global blog, as well as national and international health authorities: the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organisation. …”
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EFEITOS INICIAIS DA PANDEMIA SOBRE O AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO EM REPORTAGENS NACIONAIS / INITIAL EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON BRAZILIAN AGRIBUSINESS IN NATIONAL REPORTS by Alexandro Moura Araujo, Caroline Pauletto Spanhol Finocchio, Handerson Molin Brun, Hélio Augusto Maschio

“…We obtained 184 news reports, whose content was analyzed with the help of the QDA Miner software. …”
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Challenges with using popular entertainment to address mental health: a content analysis of Netflix series 13 Reasons Why controversy in mainstream news coverage by Hua Wang, Zhiying Yue, Divya S

“…There is an urgent need to train news reporters about established health communication guidelines and promote best practices in media reporting on sensitive topics such as suicide.…”
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How COVID-19 News Affect Older Adults’ Mental Health—Evidence of a Positivity Bias by Ng, Zoe Ziyi, Li, Grace, Flynn, Suzanne, Yow, W. Quin

“…Importantly, older adults who read positive news reported stronger responses than those who read negative news. …”
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Exploring the effects of polls on public opinion: How and when media reports of policy preferences can become self-fulfilling prophesies by Benjamin Toff

“…Taken together, these results underscore why news reporting about public attitudes deserves greater attention as an important factor in the policy process.…”
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Indonesian Identities Abroad: International Engagement of Colonial Students in the Netherlands, 1908-1931 by Klaas Stutje

“…Living in the centre of the Dutch empire multiple factions of Indonesians, each in their own words and actions, interacted with the world beyond the confines of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Foreign news reports in Dutch-Indonesian journals and concrete journeys of Indonesians abroad will be examined to describe the variety of worldviews within the Indonesian migrant community.   …”
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Comparing Waterbeds and Sand Beds for Cows: A Study at the UF/IFAS Dairy Unit by Klibs N. Galvão, Ori Eizenberg

“…Waterbeds for cows have recently gained popularity because of advertisements, news reports in outlets such as CNN. The UF/IFAS Dairy Unit (DU) provides a good opportunity to compare sand beds and waterbeds at optimal conditions. …”
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Assessing EU perception in Kazakhstan's mass media by Bakyt Ospanova, Houman A. Sadri, Raushan Yelmurzayeva

“…The authors examine news reports and periodical articles from four major national Kazakh newspapers using three measurement points. …”
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Disability, Deadly Discourse, and Collectivity amid Coronavirus (COVID-19) by Thomas Abrams, David Abbott

“…Focusing on the consequences of the latter, we utilize news reports from Canada and the UK to argue the current language of pre-existing conditions represents disability as non-life, explaining away the material realities facing disabled persons. …”
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CITIZEN MOVE TO JOURNALIST? DINAMIKA PRAKTIK JURNALISME WARGA MELALUI MEDIA BARU by Anada Dwitha Yuniar

“…The rise of new media and ubiquitos of technology encourages the practice of news reporting by citizens. Public space crisis in mainstream media, making new media elucidate to revitalize the opportunities that citizens be apart of social changes. …”
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Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified by Richard Rogers

“…Ushering in the contemporary ‘fake news’ crisis, Craig Silverman of Buzzfeed News reported that it outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the three months prior to the 2016 US presidential elections. …”
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Omission and other sins: Tracking the quality of online machine translation output over four years by Lotz, Susan, van Rensburg, Alta

“…We investigated the distribution of errors in two sets of translations (slide-show text and news report text) that we had Google Translate produce annually over a period of four years, 2010–2013. …”
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Does presenting perpetrator and innocent suspect faces from different facial angles influence the susceptibility of eyewitness memory? An investigation into the misinformation effe... by Kara Deering, Melissa F. Colloff, Tia C. Bennett, Heather D. Flowe

“…IntroductionThis study investigated the effects of face angle congruency across stages of a misinformation paradigm on lineup discrimination accuracy.MethodsIn a between-subjects design, participants viewed a mock crime with the perpetrator’s face from the front or profile angle. They then read a news report featuring an innocent suspect’s image from the same or different angle as the perpetrator had been shown. …”
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"If I'm contagious, I may infect other people" by Marco Bagli

“…Since the early months of the pandemic, the attention of scientists, politicians and citizens has been drawn to the spreading of the virus, thus making the concept of contagion salient in daily news reports. In Italian, expressions such as ‘il numero dei contagi’ became popular, as well as preoccupations regarding the number of contagiati, i.e., people who contracted the virus. …”
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Indonesian Identities Abroad: International Engagement of Colonial Students in the Netherlands, 1908-1931 by Klaas Stutje

“…Living in the centre of the Dutch empire multiple factions of Indonesians, each in their own words and actions, interacted with the world beyond the confines of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Foreign news reports in Dutch-Indonesian journals and concrete journeys of Indonesians abroad will be examined to describe the variety of worldviews within the Indonesian migrant community.   …”
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Mask Diplomacy? Understanding China's Goals in Delivering Medical Aid in the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Yixian Sun, Bowen Yu

“…We seek to examine whether China's medical aid was used as a strategic tool, or it remained reactionary and fragmented, by combining a new dataset on the global distribution of Chinese in-kind medical aid with a qualitative analysis of government and news reports during the first wave of the pandemic. Our findings show that although COVID-19 aid did have the potential to strengthen China's influence over recipients and promote Chinese knowledge of health governance, Chinese policymakers were underprepared to use aid strategically during the pandemic. …”
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‘MORE THAN JUST HUMAN HEROES’ THE ROLE OF THE PIGEON IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Hendrik Snyders

“…Responding to current debates that question animal memorialisation in general, this article, which is largely based on contemporary news reports, reports on an investigation of the early war pigeon memorials, their nature, form symbolism and meaning for the affected community within the context of animal and war memorialisation generally.…”
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Desocializing Social Media: The Visual and Media Ideologies of Stock Photography by Giorgia Aiello, Crispin Thurlow, Lara Portmann

“…This core analysis is complemented with reference to (a) keywords used to categorize photos in image banks, and (b) two indicative samples of photos reproduced in international English-language news reports. We find that a visual “regime of truth” is produced in stock photography (and then circulated by the news media) that is gendered, affectively flattened, and “corporatized.” …”
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ANALYSIS OF SCIENCE POPULARIZATION TEXTS IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATICS by Tânia Maria Moreira

“…The analysis results indicate that Journal Zero Hora popularizes scientific findings through three genres: note, news and news report. Besides these results, in SP notes, three rhetorical moves were identified: identification of the SP note, summary of the SP note and complementary information.…”
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