Print newspapers in South Africa are the oldest formal mode of news and information dissemination but which has come under tremendous pressure with the advent and spread of technological innovation involving information communication infrastructure and processes, but specifically the internet. The main challenge facing print newspapers in terms of circulation growth of print and advertising revenue is speed to market. The internet has not only provided a new avenue for news and information dissemination but has the distinct advantage of tremendous speed to deliver news and information to readers. Meanwhile, print newspapers whose production is still almost entirely dependent on traditional structures, processes and physical mode of delivery are battling to stay afloat as the chase for readers' attention is gaining more ground on digital platforms. This new competition landscape has now cast focus fully on traditional print media‟s production processes competency levels as well as their suitability for the nature of competition posed by digital news platforms. The processes involved in the production of a print newspaper can be described as hybrid (Davis and Heineke. 2005: 220) in that they involve different types of processes at different stages to produce the final product. The focus of this study at Avusa Media (Port Elizabeth) was on the post production processes involving the printing and distribution of printed newspapers with the objective of gaining an understanding of the extent and impact of the information technology advancement in the post production phase of printed newspapers. v In pursuing the goal, the case study research followed a phenomenological paradigm involving exploratory and descriptive research processes as described by Yin (1994) in Collis and Hussey (2003: 69) and Clifford Geertz (1973) in Babbie and Mouton (2005: 272) The research found that the traditional business structure for printed newspapers is increasingly becoming unviable due to poverty of technological innovation in critical parts of the production value chain; namely post production processes that encompass printing and distribution of printed newspapers. The research established and revealed that while there are some technological innovations and advances in the print newspaper publishing industry value chain worldwide, they are not only severely limited and disjointed but are also seemingly moving apart rather than towards consolidation in terms of the speed to market need faced by print newspaper publishers.

Locally generated content comprises nearly 80% of front page content for most American newspapers, with Associated Press and other wire service content comprising between 15% and 20% across various circulation categories. However, newspapers with daily circulation between 30,000 and 50,000 provide a sharp distinction – a “curve” or “groove” – publishing an average of barely 60% locally generated content on their front page, pulling nearly 40% from wire services. The anomaly declines somewhat for publications with daily circulation between 50,000 and 100,000. This statistical content analysis of 42 American newspapers of diverse circulation sizes also reveals a universal focus on domestic politics, which comprises nearly a third of all locally generated and wire content, and reveals key commonalities across circulation categories and regional boundaries. / text

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To obtain the most complete picture of the Kentucky Resolutions, and the times which produced them, a careful study was made of contemporary newspapers for the period from March, 1798, to December, 1799.

A research report submitted to the faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science by combination of coursework and research. Johannesburg, 2016. / The aims of the study were to provide an overview of how online newspapers portray astronomy news in terms of framing and tone. The “tone” is used as a way to analyse and reflect on the mood of the article, whether the journalist reports about positive or negative news. The study sought to understand what aspects of astronomy news are covered by South African online newspapers because using real world examples and stories as a way of learning has a magnetic attractiveness to the majority of students. This is one of the reasons why a newspaper is the perfect teaching and learning tool because it is regarded as a medium that can heighten students’ knowledge, enhance students’ vocabulary skills, conceptual understanding and encourage a positive attitude towards learning. The study was underpinned by framing theory which suggests that presentation can influence the choices people make; it is a procedure where people improve a specific conceptualisation and change their perception about it. A mixed method was used since it combines both qualitative methods and quantitative methods to deal with different questions of the research study. A data collecting instrument was not required to conduct the study because the data was already available on the internet, however, the researcher developed and modified an instrument to analyse the available data. The Nisbet framework and a modified story analysis form were used as coding instruments. Newspapers articles were retrieved from the internet using search terms such as “SKA, astronomy, planets”. The samples were two online newspapers, the Mail & Guardian and News24 from 1st January 2012 to 31st July 2015. The quantitative results were divided into two, firstly for the Mail & Guardian and secondly for News24. Items that were analysed for each online newspaper were: news origin, news treatment, geographical focus, photos and graphics, framing techniques, the Nisbet framework, word average, and general reaction. The Mail & Guardian has longer news article lengths than News24. This might suggest that New24’s news articles are better to use since they are shorter and the aim of using newspapers is to make teaching and learning science fun and productive. The qualitative results indicated that astronomy articles in newspapers are flooded with scientific terms that are not explained. Teachers need to assess and make students think about the content from the newspaper story and to recognise that stories in the newspaper are written differently from school textbooks. The research study indicated that newspapers can be used and are useful in science class if they are used correctly and, at the same time, textbooks and other teaching materials are also used. The use of newspaper when teaching science is undoubtedly one of the effective ways of teaching science whether in an informal or formal learning context. Using newspapers increases students’ knowledge and improves students’ vocabulary skills to enhance conceptual understanding. Key words Astronomy, Mail & Guardian, News24, Story Analysis Form, Nisbet Framework, Informal Learning, formal learning and Science. / LG2017

In recent times, newspapers have been considered to be an important medium for providing people with news, views and many other sources of information from all over the world related to their daily lives. The language of any given newspaper is acknowledged as a modern form of any language which may unavoidably bear the influence of another language/s, particularly English in the modern era. Many studies have been carried out to investigate the influence of English on the language of newspapers in different languages from different perspectives. The current study is one of these studies. It is mainly concerned with investigating the influence of English on Arabic in the context of Saudi Arabian newspapers within a period of five years between 2010 and 2015, and in exploring the use of English borrowings during this period and how they unfolded over the years. Three Saudi newspapers were selected to be surveyed and all relevant English borrowings were extracted and classified according to five semantic categories: politics, economics, culture, sports, and science and technology. In addition, the study included a questionnaire to draw on the attitude and perceptions of a number of Saudi newspapers‟ readers and writers (377 participants) towards this linguistic practice. The result of the study suggests that English borrowings are diffused in the context of the selected Saudi newspapers and their use was applied to all designated semantic categories in both years; 2010 and 2015, with different levels of quantity and frequency under each semantic category. Also, the result suggests that there is a tendency among the Saudi participants to resist this linguistic practice.

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Shi Xiaodong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-117). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / 摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2. --- Research Motivation --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3. --- Research Objective --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of Thesis --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Problem Analysis and Definition --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1. --- "Definitions of Story, Event and Topic" --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2. --- Characteristics of News Stories --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1. --- Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2. --- Document Clustering Techniques --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3. --- Event Evolution --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2. --- Event Timestamp and Temporal Relationship --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3. --- Event Evolution Graph --- p.42 / Chapter 5.4. --- Event Threading and Event Joining --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Extracting News Events --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1. --- Clustering Approach --- p.48 / Chapter 6.2. --- Utilizing Clustered Stories from News Infomediaries --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 7. --- Modeling Event Evolution Relationships --- p.62 / Chapter 7.1. --- Measuring the Confidences of Event Evolution Relationships --- p.63 / Chapter Chapter 8. --- Constructing Event Evolution Graphs --- p.68 / Chapter 8.1. --- Static Thresholding --- p.68 / Chapter 8.2. --- Static Pruning --- p.69 / Chapter 8.3. --- Dynamic Pruning --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 9. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 9.1. --- Evaluation Measure --- p.72 / Chapter 9.2. --- Data Set --- p.77 / Chapter 9.3. --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 10. --- Case Study --- p.89 / Chapter Chapter 11. --- Story Segmentation and Its Effects --- p.93 / Chapter 11.1. --- Story Segmentation --- p.95 / Chapter 11.2. --- Event Generalization --- p.97 / Chapter 11.3. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 12. --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.112 / Chapter 12.1. --- Conclusions --- p.112 / Chapter 12.2. --- Future Work --- p.113 / References --- p.114