News
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Study: Fake news shows less important in learning about politics
Sep 08, 2008 |
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A new study suggests that entertainment news shows such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought.
Negative perception of blacks rises with more news watching, studies say
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Watching the news should make you more informed, but it also may be making you more likely to stereotype, says a University of Illinois researcher. In a pair of recently published studies, communication professor Travis Dixon ...
US newspaper owners are 'mad as hell'
Apr 08, 2009 |
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US newspaper owners, their advertising revenue evaporating, their circulation declining and their readership going online to get news for free, are fighting mad.
'Lipstick on a pig' -- tracking the life and death of news
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By observing the global flow of news online, Cornell computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" - the way stories rise and fall in popularity.
Internet search process affects cognition, emotion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...
Imaging study illustrates how memories change in the brain over time
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A new brain imaging study illustrates what happens to memories as time goes by. The study, in the January 28 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that distinct brain structures are involved in recalling recent and ol ...
Uproar over 'news story' ad on front page of LA Times
Apr 10, 2009 |
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An advertisement dressed up as a news story on the front page of the Los Angeles Times has reporters at the newspaper fuming and the publisher defending the move.
Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary
Sep 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums have been experiencing technical problems on the eve of Sept. 11, finally going offline a day before the 8th anniversary of the al-Qaida ...
Google to let publishers limit free website access (Update)
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.
Google News mistakes Jackson queries for attack
Jun 27, 2009 |
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A deluge of search queries for Michael Jackson led Google News, the news aggregator of Web search engine Google, to initially believe it was under attack, the Internet giant said on Friday.
Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...
Media bias can net mistakes at the ballot box
Jun 25, 2008 |
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The media slant political news to the left or right to increase ratings and profits, spinning up an information vacuum that can lead to mistakes at the ballot box, a new study by three University of Illinois economists says.
Murdoch leads charge to get readers to pay online
May 09, 2009 |
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As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Google puts songs a click away in search
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. Wednesday will bring its U.S. searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song.
Google hopes readers will 'flip' over new format
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is testing a new format that is supposed to make reading online stories as easy as flipping through a magazine, a shift that eventually could feed more advertising sales to revenue-starved ...
