Reports that immigrants to Hawaii use the news media to assist in acculturation and to retain cultural pluralism. (FL)

Concludes that people with cable television tend to use all news media more extensively than those without it, but that cable greatly reduces the audience for news on local television stations. (FL)

Details a study that investigated how middle-aged housewives responded to different age portrayals for different age-oriented products in advertisements. Concludes that there was a clear interaction between age-orientation of product and age of model in an advertisement, but no pervasive "younger is better" effect. (FL)

Concludes that while the interest in science news has been increasing, the coverage of such news by most newspapers has not significantly increased in two decades. (FL)

Analysis of the coverage given by 35 newspapers to United States-Soviet Union relations during 1934-41 reveals that newspapers with the most interest in foreign affairs expressed the opinion that Stalin had abandoned the idea of world revolution, while those with less interest viewed him as an imperialist. (FL)

An analysis of the professional orientations of 116 male and 91 female news photographers suggests that women news photographers are as professional as their male colleagues. (GT)

Describes conflicting findings about whether print advertisements are generally informative or persuasive; suggests research needs in this area. (GT)

A comparison of the data from the 1976 "Editor and Publisher" poll regarding newspapers' editorial endorsements with data from a survey of the nation's voters suggests that the poll overstates the partisanship of the press and its Republican bias. (GT)

Discusses conceptual problems with the traditional approach to the study of news bias; reports on a study conducted with 73 college students, which yielded data supporting the thesis that what news consumers see as biased news is often material that is discrepant with what they already believe. (GT)

Presents brief reports of research conducted in the following areas: media credibility, network television news audiences, influences of television newscasters' on-camera image, Blacks in introductory advertisements, children's television preferences, messages in Depression-era photographs, and journalism education issues covered in two…

Secondary analyses of data gathered in a national study of United States journalists yielded information about variables that predict professional and organizational commitment. The factors selected for analysis were found to explain organizational commitment better than professional commitment. (GT)

A study of the diffusion of news about the Mormon Church's approval of Blacks for the priesthood revealed that "shocking" good news can ignite the interpersonal communications system, that news has more credibility when obtained from media than when obtained interpersonally, and that people use mass media to verify news obtained…

Although the position of women on weekly newspapers appears to be better than in some other sectors of journalism, women still occupy a lower position than men within the weekly newspaper structure: they generally are paid less, have less control over their newspapers, and are not as likely to hold management positions. (GT)

Content analyses of a Massachusetts and an Oregon daily newspaper revealed that the newspapers covered causes of death in very similar ways, overreporting violent, often catastrophic causes of death and underreporting diseases. These biases in coverage corresponded closely to people's judgments of causes of death, as determined in a previous…

Reports that the coverage of women's sports in "Sports Illustrated" did not increase from 1956 to 1976, although women's active participation in sports did. (GT)