Reports that, overall, 80 percent of the national and international stories in "Time" and "Newsweek" contain anonymous attribution. (FL)

Presents the findings of a survey of members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors revealing that they were ambivalent about the use of veiled attribution. Notes that editors of larger rather than smaller papers were more likely to see the need for it. (FL)

One issue each of "Time" and "Newsweek" from each month of 1982 was selected at random and content analyzed to determine the use of anonymous attribution. Stories from the "National/Nation" and "International World" sections were analyzed for use of anonymous sources, that is a direct or paraphrased quote…

Reports that Connecticut's daily newspapers demonstrated a significantly higher utilization of local and regional wire services in 1967 than in 1976, and that there was a significantly higher utilization of wire service than of staff originated copy regardless of year. (GW)

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)

Details a study showing that government sources in the United States are less credible than they were shown to be in a study conducted 19 years ago. (Author/FL)

Concludes that the extent of reporters' agreement with messages from an information source affects the choice of supportive items. (RB)

A study investigated the possibility that news sources account for the pattern of journalistic topic selection. It was hypothesized that the proportions of content in raw news materials made available to reporters by sources would be similar to the proportion of content found in published stories, and that the proportions of sources for these raw…

In focusing on the epistemology of journalism, this paper seeks to determine how reporters, particularly investigative reporters, know what they know. It begins by distinguishing between the validity of knowledge claims and their everyday justification, assuming the latter to be the proper focus for a phenomenological study of what passes as…

One method of identifying important areas and books within a field is through citation counts--noting the number of times a work is referred to in the literature. These counts can be supplemented with citation networks, in which links between articles are formed by such methods as direct citation and cocitation. Citation counts and networks were…

Content analysis of three newspaper advice columns (Ann Landers, Abigail Van Buren, Joyce Brothers) shows that they refute myths about mental health and marriage more often than they support them. (FL)

Presents a critical discussion of two news value indices and makes some suggestions for considering social psychological variables in the development of such indices. (TO)