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

Call for Papers : Conference on Radio and Newspapers 2026

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the international conference on the theme ‘Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?’.

Blog posts

Impresso Datalab
Thu, 18.09 2025

Major Release: Introducing the Impresso Datalab, Corpus Expansion and New Data Access Management

Over the past months we have been busy preparing this major release which includes the Impresso Datalab for programmatic access to our corpus and models, the integration of new newspaper titles from the National Library of France and our Swiss partners, and the roll-out of a completely revised data access management system which paves the way for future corpus expansions.

Mon, 15.09 2025

Call for Papers : Conference on Radio and Newspapers 2026

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the international conference organissed by the Impresso project and the History Department of the University of Lausanne, to be held on June 30 and July 1, 2026 on the theme ‘Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?’.