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Fico, Frederick – Journalism Quarterly, 1985
Concludes that in Michigan, reporters focused on covering the governor and that state representatives received more coverage than did senators. (FL)
Descriptors: Journalism, Media Research, News Media, News Reporting
Lacy, Stephen; Fico, Frederick – 1989
To explore the theoretical relation of newspaper competition to overall news quality, a study used a model of newspaper competition based on economic assumptions to investigate whether the product quality of a newspaper is positively related to the financial expenditure on it, and whether newspaper circulation is positively related to quality.…
Descriptors: Competition, Content Analysis, Economic Factors, Investment
Fico, Frederick – 1980
Employing a "resource dependency" model from organizational theory, this paper explains the growth of newspaper cooperation out of publisher competition in Chicago (Illinois) journalism during the period 1880 to 1910. It suggests that publisher cooperation in business matters also resulted in a changed news coverage style and emphasis. It argues…
Descriptors: Competition, Content Analysis, Cooperation, Journalism