Disseminating News Releases by Clip Sheets: Sometimes the Old Ways Still Work

In an era of electronic information delivery, this article examines the effectiveness of a low cost clip sheet produced since 1920 as a way of providing Missouri-based media news and feature stories about the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

Proses Penyuntingan Berita Pada Perusahaan Jawatan Televisi Republik Indonesia (Tvri) Bengkulu

In line with times, television news center has been equipped with a variety of sophisticated tools, such as the ones used in the production and editing process of the Company Bureau (PERJAN) TVRI Bengkulu. Some of the tools used were: ENG (Electronic News Gathering), a large movie camera (Sound On Film) electronic editing tools, broadcasting space, VTR space, and various other supporting tools that are used to improve the quality of broadcasting. In this research, researchers used a qualitative descriptive approach by interview, observation and documentation, followed by data analysis. The result of this research found that the process of delivering news on TVRI Bengkulu, particularly on program Bengkulu dalam Berita, has been carried out by adjusting the news delivery technique through two ways: ie the way the British were serious and formal and casual events of the United States. Both methods have been implemented in the event of this program

Preferences toward news sources of international news among Malaysian academicians

The present world has been influenced and changed very rapidly by the technological development. The electronic media have become as phenomena of transitions which have opened new possibility for delivery of news and information to people.The main objective of this study was to determine the news sources that Malaysian academicians depended on to gain news and information about Arabs World and international world.Another objective is to examine the differences of news source according to the demographic data of the respondents.The study is based on a survey.A total of 300 respondents were Malaysian academicians in five public universities which were located in Klang valley.The findings indicated that the internet was the first or primary source for them to gain news (58.7%) followed by Astro (55%)

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2 - July/August 2009

This second issue of Law Library News highlights the dynamic nature of life and work in the Kresge Law Library. Amongst the many pictures of the construction phases of Eck Hall, you will find helpful material gleaned from professional conferences and staff experiences with the continuing evolution of electronic access to information. To me, though, the focus this summer continues to be on our continual quest to provide excellent service to all of our patrons in our transitional environment. That transitional environment includes the impact of our construction project and the changing nature of information delivery. On the construction side, we completed our first semester without many of the print publications that the staff, both now and in the past, labored for many years to acquire, catalog, and shelve as the foundation to our efforts to teach students how to find and use information effectively. Students found study space in Eck Hall or elsewhere when January completely changed everyone’s surroundings. We wait in anticipation of the completion of Biolchini Hall, and we are planning the stack arrangements this summer. On the changing nature of information delivery, I offer one small glimpse into one of the many research activities we are supporting this summer. I am spending time with news-based sources from 1968 through today. This involves “oldfashioned” microfilm (and I thank the research assistants who are doing this), electronic access through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Westlaw and LexisNexis sources, and the newspaper archives on Google News. I felt I was well informed about the Google Books project, but I knew much less about Google News. I encourage you to take a look at this resource if you are hunting for news accounts that predate the electronic sources on Westlaw and LexisNexis. Many times the daily newspapers in smaller cities provided greater coverage of an event than what you would find in the major markets. To be thorough, however, I need access to all of this information. So, as always, the challenge is to balance old methods with new ones

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2 - July/August 2009

This second issue of Law Library News highlights the dynamic nature of life and work in the Kresge Law Library. Amongst the many pictures of the construction phases of Eck Hall, you will find helpful material gleaned from professional conferences and staff experiences with the continuing evolution of electronic access to information. To me, though, the focus this summer continues to be on our continual quest to provide excellent service to all of our patrons in our transitional environment. That transitional environment includes the impact of our construction project and the changing nature of information delivery. On the construction side, we completed our first semester without many of the print publications that the staff, both now and in the past, labored for many years to acquire, catalog, and shelve as the foundation to our efforts to teach students how to find and use information effectively. Students found study space in Eck Hall or elsewhere when January completely changed everyone’s surroundings. We wait in anticipation of the completion of Biolchini Hall, and we are planning the stack arrangements this summer. On the changing nature of information delivery, I offer one small glimpse into one of the many research activities we are supporting this summer. I am spending time with news-based sources from 1968 through today. This involves “oldfashioned” microfilm (and I thank the research assistants who are doing this), electronic access through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Westlaw and LexisNexis sources, and the newspaper archives on Google News. I felt I was well informed about the Google Books project, but I knew much less about Google News. I encourage you to take a look at this resource if you are hunting for news accounts that predate the electronic sources on Westlaw and LexisNexis. Many times the daily newspapers in smaller cities provided greater coverage of an event than what you would find in the major markets. To be thorough, however, I need access to all of this information. So, as always, the challenge is to balance old methods with new ones

The Development of an Electronic Newspaper at the Deseret News and a Survey of its Users

This thesis looks at the history of electronic newspaper delivery systems at several newspapers and provides an in-depth study of how one Utah daily newspaper, the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, developed its own electronic newspaper over a period of years and convinced its board of directors to support it. It outlines the process of defining goals, policies and processes for creating and managing the system. It contains results of a survey conducted of subscribers to the electronic edition, called Crossroads. The survey provides demographic profiles of Crossroads users, shows how often the electronic edition is used in their homes by users in various age groups and for what purposes. The survey results indicate which services of Crossroads are most and least popular among users and allows respondents to recommend changes and improvements in Crossroads. The concluding chapter provides a look ahead at what electronic information systems are currently emerging, particularly the World Wide Web. Indications are that the Web is replacing earlier electronic newspaper editions as a simpler way to receive information. The Deseret News plans to eliminate Crossroads and concentrate its efforts on its Web page. The newspaper has plans to charge a fee for some information it currently makes available on the page

Payment models for digital news content in the US

The economic recession of 2008 and the growth of digital news content delivery has changed the revenue model in the newspaper industry. For example, some news publishers favor charging readers for online content, while others do not. Those who have already built pay walls and those who plan to build them in the near future can use several methods to do so. The purpose of this research was to assess the payment models for digital content in news organizations that publish a daily newspaper in the US. A survey of 1,100 daily newspaper publishers in the US—all members of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA)—was conducted in June 2010 to assess the policies of charging for digital news content across a variety of digital delivery platforms. The response rate was 10%. The results revealed that 70% of the news organizations provided free access to news on their websites. However, 42% of respondents indicated that they planned to change their payment model. Of those planning to change their payment model, 80% (34% of the total sample) said they would start charging for online, mobile, or electronic products. Regarding planned changes for the coming year, 21% of respondents said they planned to increase the price for their mobile and online products, and 47% of respondents said they planned to increase the price of their printed products

A language for information commerce processes

Automatizing information commerce requires languages to represent the typical information commerce processes. Existing languages and standards cover either only very specific types of business models or are too general to capture in a concise way the specific properties of information commerce processes. We introduce a language that is specifically designed for information commerce. It can be directly used for the implementation of the processes and communication required in information commerce. It allows to cover existing business models that are known either from standard proposals or existing information commerce applications on the Internet. The language has a concise logical semantics. In this paper we present the language concepts and an implementation architecture