The association between exaggeration in health-related science news and academic press releases: a replication study. [PDF]
Wellcome Open Res, 2019 Background: Exaggerations in health news were previously found to strongly associate with similar exaggerations in press releases. Moreover, such press release exaggerations did not appear to attract more news.
Bratton L +6 more
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Exaggerations and Caveats in Press Releases and Health-Related Science News. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Background Exaggerated or simplistic news is often blamed for adversely influencing public health. However, recent findings suggested many exaggerations were already present in university press releases, which scientists approve.
Sumner P +9 more
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Press releases issued by supplements industry organisations and non-industry organisations in response to publication of clinical research findings: a case-control study. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 Background Dietary supplement use is increasing despite lack of evidence of benefits, or evidence of harm. Press releases issued by the supplements industry might contribute to this situation by using ‘spin’ (strategies to hype or denigrate findings) to ...
Wang MT, Gamble G, Bolland MJ, Grey A.
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Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases. [PDF]
BMJ Evid Based Med, 2023 Objective This study examined the extent to which trials presented at major international medical conferences in 2016 consistently reported their study design, end points and results across conference abstracts, published article abstracts and press ...
Rowhani-Farid A +6 more
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Partisan Bias in Message Selection: Media Gatekeeping of Party Press Releases. [PDF]
Polit Commun, 2017 Parties try to shape media coverage in ways that are favorable to them, but what determines whether media outlets pick up and report on party messages? Based on content analyses of 1,496 party press releases and 6,512 media reports from the 2013 Austrian
Haselmayer M, Wagner M, Meyer TM.
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Is the Market Swayed by Press Releases on Corporate Governance? Event Study on the Eurostoxx Banks [PDF]
, 2018 Are press releases on Corporate Governance price sensitive? What is the impact of Corporate Governance information on stock prices of banks? This paper addresses these questions by applying an event study methodology on 70 press releases published by the
M. Brogi, Valentina Lagasio
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When Medical News Comes from Press Releases-A Case Study of Pancreatic Cancer and Processed Meat. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 The media have a key role in communicating advances in medicine to the general public, yet the accuracy of medical journalism is an under-researched area. This project adapted an established monitoring instrument to analyse all identified news reports (n
Taylor JW +11 more
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BMJ, 2014 Objective To identify the source (press releases or news) of distortions, exaggerations, or changes to the main conclusions drawn from research that could potentially influence a reader’s health related behaviour.
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A scientometric-inspired framework to analyze EurekAlert! press releases [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Press releases about scholarly news are brief statements provided in advance to the press, including a description of the most relevant findings of one or more accepted scientific publications, usually under the condition that journalists will adhere to ...
E. Orduña-Malea, Rodrigo Costas
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Semi-Supervised Exaggeration Detection of Health Science Press Releases [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 Public trust in science depends on honest and factual communication of scientific papers. However, recent studies have demonstrated a tendency of news media to misrepresent scientific papers by exaggerating their findings.
Dustin Wright, Isabelle Augenstein
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