This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) Kansas scholastic newspaper content and management practices in a First Amendment context; (2) a historical analysis of new journalism; (3) how North Carolina's major newspapers covered their state university's desegregation controversy; (4) coverage of the Arab world and Israel in American news magazines between 1975 and 1981; (5) factors associated with the selection of stories from an international religion news service by daily newspapers; (6) global news flow issues; (7) the attitudes of news directors toward the fairness doctrine; (8) the agenda setting effect of crime news on prosecutors; (9) some effects of the repetition of environmental news stories; (10) the derived image of the supermarket tabloid; (11) negativism as a news selection predictor; (12) the "New York Times," U. S. foreign policy, and the Iranian revolution; (13) an analysis of newspaper coverage of the disaster at Love Canal; and (14) the social construction of journalistic reality. (HOD)