Reports that middle-level Chinese government officials are given almost verbatim translations of selected news stories and commentary from around the world in a publication called "News for Reference," which is widely distributed in China by the Hsinhua news agency. (FL)

Discusses "Min Shun Bao" ("The People's Living Daily"), a daily newspaper in Taiwan that carries only features appealing to a wide audience. Reports on a survey finding that the paper has not been as successful as its publishers had hoped. (FL)

Concludes that United States press coverage of the Quebec separatism referendum concentrated on the results and on constitutional reform rather than on the background aspects of the issue. (FL)

Concludes that Canadian newspapers serving a specific geographic area or region exhibit many similarities. (FL)

Concludes that Nepal's press shows more concern with domestic issues and uses a greater variety of news sources during a period of relative freedom. (FL)

Concludes that the representation of the elderly in Israeli newspapers is consistent with their proportion in the population, but that the way they are portrayed tends to support stereotypes. (FL)

Describes how Uganda's newspaper industry started slowly in the early twentieth century, expanded rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and then declined; notes that by 1976 only 14 of 84 newspapers established over a period of 79 years still existed. Provides information about each newspaper published between 1900 and 1976. (GT)

An analysis of the coverage by four United States daily newspapers of the collapse of Nationalist China to the Communists in the 1940s reveals that, for all four newspapers, news out of and about China was just important enough to warrant some commentary, but not sustained analysis. (GT)

Coverage of China in six leading newspapers showed similarities, but American papers viewed Mao's power as waning. (KS)

Reports that coverage of preelection polls by the Israeli press has increased markedly since 1948, as has media sponsorship of them. (FL)

Notes that Canadian journalists accepted censorship during World War I with a minimum of complaint, viewing it as a necessary sacrifice for the war effort. (FL)

Analyzes press coverage of the 1979 British general election to determine if reporting concentrated on the "dramatic contest" aspects of the campaign or on issues. Concludes that while coverage of the "dramatic contest" aspects of the election increased as the campaign went on coverage of the issues remained the major focus.…

An analysis of selected Mexican daily newspapers suggests that travel information is not gathered, processed, and disseminated systematically by Mexican newspapers. (GT)

Choosing six Mexican newspapers representing an ideological range from liberal to conservative, a study analyzed the content of the newspapers' editorials and political columns from 1951 through 1980. Data established that Mexican newspapers, contrary to many critics' judgments, criticized government policies and political figures. They did,…

A study analyzed the coverage by 15 American newspapers of a single foreign news story, the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986. Issues of the newspapers for the first week after the murder were examined and total coverage of the event, measured in number of words, was calculated for each paper. In addition,…