Finds more nonreaders of newspapers than a study done ten years ago, but the background of the nonreaders are highly similar. (RB)

Concludes that with several exceptions that there was no bias on the part of the news media in covering the 1972 election campaign. (RB)

Concludes that the style of a story is less important than the content in determining whether the reader will stop to think about it. (RB)

Describes the philosophy and practices of the newspapers published in the Pacific Islands. (RB)

Confirms the hypothesis that persons with a high level of anxiety about their health will tend to read an article with a reassuring headline; does not sustain the hypothesis that persons with low anxiety tend to read frightening headlines more than reassuring headlines. (RB)

Suggests that the kinds of graphics needed by the print media depend on the cues crucial to the intended meaning of the message. (RB)

Results of two studies indicate that word messages carry more impact than pictures and an analysis of variance reveals that iconicity and sensationalism each related positively to both evaluative-ethical and interest-vitality ratings. (RB)

Supports the hypothesis that the news values of journalism students are strongly influenced by instructors in the course of only a single newswriting class. (Author/RB)

Concludes that the public's right to know affects the public employee's attitude toward information in his organization. (Author/RB)

Content analysis of seven newspapers during the 1972 Canadian federal election finds no evidence of collusion among editorialists of the chain-owned newspapers. (RB)

Supports the hypothesis that political caricatures are not static but can evolve over a relatively short period of time to reflect more positively or negatively on the person being caricatured. (RB)

Concludes that American newspaper editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from elite social backgrounds, which is contrary to the rags-to-riches image fostered by previous historians. (RB)

A comparison of the readability of best selling novels and sample newspapers for the years 1904, 1933, and 1965 revealed that readability scores for the newspapers were significantly lower than those for novels across all time periods. (GW)