Offers brief descriptions of research concerning (1) media bias toward business, (2) foreign affairs coverage in elite and mass periodicals, (3) how emphasis on people affects coverage of crime, (4) antisocial and prosocial behavior on prime-time television, (5) network news coverage of Iran, and (6) magazines' reporting on insects. (FL)

Stepwise regression yielded a 13-variable model for predicting writing performance that included psychological, stylistic, and demographic variables. (FL)

A 1977 survey of reporters represented by The Newspaper Guild and publishers holding contracts with the Guild suggested that publishers are less concerned than their employees with ensuring privilege protection and that they are reluctant to incorporate privilege in contracts. (GT)

Secondary analyses of data from surveys conducted in Peru and Ecuador suggest that there is a relationship between media use and education in squatter settlements, but that there is a less definite tie between media use and political activism. (GT)

Concludes that, although both Blacks and Mexican Americans were generally negative in their evaluations of media portrayals of their ethnic groups, Blacks were more critical than Mexican Americans. (GT)

Lists and annotates more than 180 articles on mass communication, grouped according to topic. Topics include audience and communicator analysis, broadcasting, courts and law, journalism education, history and biography, management, and visual communications. (GT)

Characterizes the differences in the content of local newspaper's coverage (including political advertisements) of municipal and school board elections. Finds that local newspapers can raise consciousness of these elections and can increase voter turnout. (RS)

Measures how much voters learned about the issue positions of the 1988 presidential candidates and the images formed from campaign coverage and other information. Finds the debates influential on knowledge; higher levels of education and campaign interest related to more issue knowledge; and image knowledge predicted by party loyalty. Concludes…

Concludes that models in American magazine ads are older than those in Korean ads and are more likely to be smiling. (FL)

Offers summaries of research dealing with (1) judges' perceptions of the fair trial-free press issue, (2) ethical journalism, (3) media agenda setting with environmental issues, (4) local predictors of basic and pay cable television subscribership, and (5) restaurant critics. (FL)

Concludes that members of the Public Relations Society of America want to participate in company decisions and have clear concern for the public interest. (FL)

Reveals that identification as a liberal publication was a significant factor in media treatment of Jackson's candidacy in only one of nine comparisons, while identification as a conservative publication was a factor in only three of nine. The most important independent factor was the identification of the publication as a newspaper. (FL)

Summarizes research dealing with a number of topics, including the following: (1) political communication and voter volatility, (2) daily newspaper publishers' preferences on reporter decision making, (3) media use by foreign students, and (4) coverage of discrimination cases in the "New York Times." (FL)

Brief research reports discuss Latin America as seen on United States network television; television news coverage of federal regulatory agencies; community perceptions of media impressions; active television viewing and cultivation hypothesis; the impact of cable on traditional television news viewing; George Kibbe Turner; advertising; and…

Reports that graduate student research compares favorably to that of faculty research in many respects but that it has less emphasis on theory and on measuring affects. (FL)