Two Canadian studies show large losses in all media in immediate, unaided recall for simulated news presentations with the broadcast media showing greater loss than the print media. (RB)

Finds editorial writers highly educated, well satisfied with their positions, well paid, and active in community and public affairs. (RB)

Results demonstrated that color affects females more than males but increases positive judgement of aesthetic value and overall quality of commericlas for both sexes.

Findings indicate that media managers consider the environment not to be newsworthy, see polution as a real problem, and accept advertisements from polluters. (RB)

Concludes that traditional and modern, renamed women's pages are not meeting the contemporary needs of American women. (RB)

The median salary for women reporters is 52 percent of that for men. (RB)

Reports findings of surveys of people's evaluations of press behavior during the Watergate period; concludes that the most important determinants of press criticism were in support of Nixon, party affiliation, and ideology. (GW)

Both male and female student ratings of audience interest in various types of news clearly reflected sex-role stereotyping. (KS)

Content analysis of editorials in 16 large-city newspapers reveals a pattern of support for free expression. (KS)

Although the coverage that the press gave of the Surgeon General's report on television and social behavior was confused and indefinite, few papers ran follow-up stories that might have explained the ambiguity. (KS)

Concludes that exposure to mass media is associated with relatively positive, if not well-informed, images of foreign countries and to a perception of them as being successful. (FL)

Discovers that the content of broadcast news in Puerto Rico is similar to that in the United States, with political and government stories commanding a relatively large amount of news time. (FL)

Concludes that the public's negative attitude toward the news media is beginning to mellow. (FL)

Concludes that government spokespersons, ranking politicians, and leaders of organized groups have better access to Canadian TV news outlets than do other people. (FL)