Examines the media's influence on the political information available to the public and its impact on voting behavior in state and local elections. (RB)

Concludes that newspaper audience interest in reading a syndicated column on anthropology is high. (RB)

Reports that Connecticut's daily newspapers demonstrated a significantly higher utilization of local and regional wire services in 1967 than in 1976, and that there was a significantly higher utilization of wire service than of staff originated copy regardless of year. (GW)

Demonstrates that canonical correlation is superior to other multivariate methods for analyzing the relationships between two variable sets in mass communication investigations. (GW)

Content analysis of 12 metropolitan newspapers revealed a great similarity in reporting; coverage focused on what the candidate was, rather than on what he or she said. (KS)

While far short of the total percentage of the population, the percentage of blacks employed compares favorably with national figures. (KS)

Summarizes the results of content analyses of six journalism periodicals appearing during 1955, 1965, and 1975. (KS)

Concludes that journalists and sources share notions about what aspects of a bureaucratic process are worth their attention and that journalists select information in a patterned way, with that pattern determined by the frames of reference of the sources. (FL)

Shows that two of three videotex services had substantially more stories than their companion newspapers, and that all three tended to get stories earlier than the papers. (FL)

Analyzes the press coverage of the Finkbine abortion case in 1962. Concludes that it brought about a marked changed in the way the press reported and the public viewed abortion. (FL)

Concludes that thanks to Nigeria's 1979 Constitution and to its independent courts, the press in that country has escaped serious mauling in spite of political and human frailties. (FL)

Reports that editorial page editors and cartoonists agree on most aspects of the cartoonist's role, but differ on the amount of freedom allowed the cartoonist. (FL)