Hi everyone A student of mine (who for some reason has not been able to subscribe to this list) is looking for a (possibly open source) software to do content analysis of newspaper articles from an online database. She is also looking at the trail version of WordStat, and is curious to know whether anyone can recommend it. See her email below (to speed things up, I agree to post her request for her. Please reply to Puck directly (p.j.m.koene@tilburguniversity.edu)). Thanks for any suggestions and advice you might want to share with us Stefania Milan ---- From Puck Koene [p.j.m.koene@tilburguniversity.edu] Hey everyone, In order to graduate I am currently writing my master thesis. The plan is to examine thousands of news articles extracted from an online database. However, so far I have no knowledge of any good software to automate this process. I was hoping y?all could help me answer the question as to whether you know any software to do proper content analysis. Does any of you by any chance have experience with WordStat? I'm particularly interested in the trial version as I need to be able to have access to the results of my analysis after the trail version has expired. The software I?m looking for needs to be able to detect types of sources used by journalists and add them together, so basically I need the software to look for certain key words. If you know any good software (especially free software or trial versions) to run a proper content analysis I would love to hear from you. Thank you in advance. Best, Puck Koene, Student Communication and Information Sciences Tilburg University (Netherlands) p.j.m.koene@tilburguniversity.edu