Media Monitoring of the Past — Beyond Borders

Leveraging an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past is an interdisciplinary research project that uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration, and study of historical media across modalities, time, languages, and national borders.

Announcements

Impresso Seminar 2025: Latest Developments in Press History Research

We are pleased to share the program for the upcoming Impresso Seminar 2025.

Blog posts

Journalists in the Radio-Canada/CBC newsroom in Montreal, 30 November 1944 (Conrad Poirier, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Wikimedia Commons).
Mon, 30.03 2026

Conference Program: “Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?”

We are pleased to announce that the program for the “Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History” conference, organized by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne, is now available on the conference website.

Scenes of everyday life in Athens, Greece. A man reading a newspaper at a café terrace (28.05.1979), Jean-Louis Debaize, Audiovisual Service of the European Commission, Wikimedia Commons.
Thu, 19.03 2026

Impresso Seminar 2026: Latest Developments in Press History Research

Keen to stay up to date with initiatives in the field of computational media history, the Impresso project is organizing a short series of conferences this spring, inviting colleagues to present their current research in order to gain inspiration, share ideas, and build bridges between our ongoing efforts. This series is the second season of Impresso Seminars: see the fall 2025 program.