A study examined newspaper coverage of the United States' withdrawal from Unesco to determine whether the public was given a balanced picture of the issues involved and to examine the degree of impartiality of the coverage of one specific issue, the New World Information Order. The study analyzed reports that appeared in American daily newspapers…

A study examined the advertising of Japan and the United States to determine if commercial messages reflect the cultural values of a particular society, thereby indicating the need for specialized campaigns. It was hypothesized that the majority of Japanese advertisements would use the traditional appeals of group, consensus, soft sell, veneration…

A study examined how presentation of men and women by selected internal business publications changed from 1978 to 1982. A visual content analysis of three major industry publications was conducted. The total number of individuals shown in the 22 magazines studied was 1,551. Of these individuals, 83% were male and 17% were female. After…

A study was conducted to contrast the news coverage of developed and developing nations, and of the United States specifically, as transmitted to Asia by the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI). A total of 556 AP reports and 453 UPI reports drawn from a 6-week period were coded for more than 100 variables and 47 topics. The…

The flow of international news was traced from the Associated Press (AP) interbureau and United Press International (UPI) state wires into 11 Indiana newspapers to determine (1) the comparative frequency of wire service news about nations of the more developed northern hemisphere and those of the less developed southern hemisphere, and (2) whether…

A study investigated the nature and extent of diversity in news sources used by newspapers and the extent to which those sources were identified by the newspapers. A content analysis was conducted of 846 front page, straight news stories that appeared during two randomly constructed weeks in two national newspapers (the "New York Times"…

This study examines the reasons for cancellations of the newspaper, who makes the decision to stop the newspaper in each household, why the subscriber initiated service and who makes this decision, and why people read a newspaper. The sites selected for this study were Evansville, Indiana ("Evansville Press"), Raleigh, North Carolina…

Reports on a study indicating that veiled attribution occurs in approximately three-fourths of news stories in both "Time" and Newsweek," and that the attribution phrases used emphasize partisan ties, suggest expertise, and tend to personalize, to add apparent scope to a story, and to be especially vague in international stories.…

Reports on a comparison of coverage of the Democratic and Republican parties by 12 Ohio metropolitan newspapers in the 1971 Ohio municipal election campaigns. (GW)

Content analysis of broadcasts by Voice of America, Radio Liberty, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Deutche Welle to the Soviet Union revealed differences in political environments and purposes of sponsoring nations. (KS)

Consensus practices, modes of operation that a newspaper develops which promote community unity, were not found to be related to news coverage or profits but were found to be a function of the size of the community in question. (KS)

Uses content analysis of three newspapers to determine favorable and unfavorable mentions of public relations activities. Findings indicate that public relations is equated solely with publicity, and that publicity is generally considered beneficial. (MS)

Found that, after Argentina, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, and Turkey hired U. S. public relations consultants, their news image in the "New York Times" improved in positive coverage and portrayal as more cooperative nations. (PD)

Concludes that coverage of Blacks in five newspapers remained high even after the civil rights movement had subsided. (FL)

Shows how production formats can be compatible with ideological statements without explicitly intending to be so. (FL)