Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? by Estelle Bunout Maud Ehrmann Frédéric Clavert

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? by Estelle Bunout Maud Ehrmann Frédéric Clavert

Author:Estelle Bunout, Maud Ehrmann, Frédéric Clavert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2022-11-28T11:28:41.617000+00:00


Fig. 7: Annual daily evolution of sports content in Le Matin in 1928.

This time, the selection focuses on one genre, namely sport, considering texts classified as such with more than 30% probability. The Monday spikes remain visible throughout the year. Yet, this pattern is supplemented by a larger trend made visible by the polynomial regression line (in dark green): sports contents are more prevalent in summer than in winter. In the French society of the first half of the 20th century, sport is largely synonymous with outdoor activities. This outdated definition is stressed by the early sports supplements appearing in the daily press in the 1910s, like La Vie en plein air (Outdoor life) in Le Petit Journal.



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