Examines major episodes in the reporting career of Paul Y. Anderson, Washington, D.C., newspaper correspondent and magazine columnist, to see how he helped maintain the practice and standing of enterprise journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. (FL)

Traces the events that followed International Paper Company's purchase of interests in 14 American newspapers in 1928-29. Reveals that a Federal Trade Commision probe led to a quick divestiture. (FL)

Defines mobilizing information (MI) as any information that allows people to act on the attitudes and desires they already have. Concludes that MI is missing in news of political controversy at least in part because journalists decided to withhold it. (FL)

Argues that press attention paralleled the rise and fall of popular radio priest, Charles E. Coughlin. (FL)

Analysis of eight magazine articles on tropical rain deforestation indicates that almost half the pertinent information concerning the subject is missing. (FL)

Reports that the traditional ways of handling datelines, figures, political designations, and second references hinder reader understanding of newspaper stories. (FL)

Reports on diffusion studies following major and minor papal encyclicals. The results suggest that the relevance and salience of the information is more predictive of diffusion than is news value. (TO)

Shows that youth's image of TV police is not correlated with his image of actual police; television images held by delinquents and middle-class adolescents do not differ. (TO)

Discusses the question of defining government documents as property and the consequent conflict with the First Amendment rights of the press. (TO)

Reports three experiments supporting the inference that the powerless are more sensitive to content that explains than to content promising reward. (TO)

Reveals that content analysis shows that media coverage of the environment tends to deal with problems of a community at a distance rather than with local issues. (TO)

Presents a critical discussion of two news value indices and makes some suggestions for considering social psychological variables in the development of such indices. (TO)