Refers to critical issues marking the debate about political violence and the mass media in a democracy and in South Africa. Attempts to situate the political violence and mass media inquiry within recent calls for consensus journalism in South Africa. Suggests that the mass media needs to promote rational discourse in South Africa. (SKC)

In addition to investigative and interpretative reporting, journalists might adopt a new approach to the news--preventive journalism. Preventive journalism would concentrate on news and information that could be used to prevent crises and conditions upon which the mass media thrive. In one area, public health, preventive journalism could be used…

Discusses the tradition of rhetorical theory and scholarship to sketch the chief characteristics of public communication. Suggests some implications for the study and criticism of contemporary media discourses of a rhetorical nature. (JK)

Argues that the doctrine of presumed harm, which was not addressed in "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan," remains a major problem in libel law. (FL)

Argues for a more interdisciplinary approach to journalism scholarship to provide a fuller account of media power. Considers briefly the notions of performance, narrative, ritual, and interpretive community as alternative frames through which to consider journalism. (SR)

Argues that editor William Allen White was striving to set a social and political agenda that would advance business values and bring prosperity to his home state, Kansas. (FL)

Few individuals think of the theatrically exhibited motion picture as supported by advertising like other major forms of mass communications. Cinema screen advertising can be defined as the presentation of individual advertising messages on movie theatre screens in a distinct and discrete fashion. Screenvision ads run prior to the start of each…

Intended for newspaper managing editors, this collection includes the following topics and authors: (1) discovering how to reshape newspapers for the video age (Tom Holbein and Deanne Termini); (2) trends that will cause newspapers to change the manner of news collecting and delivery (Tom B. Mauro); (3) solid tips on research (Jenny Fielder); (4)…

Reports responses of professional journalists to a questionnaire that asked how high school journalism classes had influenced their decisions to enter newspaper careers. (DF)

An interview with Edwin Emery, journalism professor and co-author of the widely used textbook "The Press and America," in which he discusses his book, historians and historical schools that influenced his work, and areas of journalism and mass communication history that need to be researched and expanded upon today. (GT)

Changing from a non-profit foundation to a for-profit corporation, "Ms." magazine recently passed through a transitional phase, transforming its image to attract more advertisers. Four issues published after the fifteenth anniversary issue, when the new image was introduced, illumine both the hegemony of patriarchal capitalism and the…

States that the system of local political journalism has become fragile and that steps should be taken to remediate the situation, such as developing tax incentives that invite television news, distributed in nonbroadcast form, to enter the arena of local political information. (DF)

Reviews the progress of mass media effects research since the 1930s. (PD)

Argues that, in the case of Poland, media history is best seen as a series of expansions and retractions of press freedom. Advocates a new press culture, both on the part of journalists and their audiences, in addition to the establishment of freer press laws and financially sound institutions. (SR)

A study investigated how much attention mass communication scholars writing in "Journalism Quarterly" give to each of the mass communication industries, to what extent the various media segments are studied, and how data from diverse industry segments are used. All 1,135 articles from both the main and Research in Brief sections of…