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Nord, David Paul – 1982
The rejection of the "Great Forces" and "Great Man" theories of newspaper history allows a middle-range view that seeks to discover the uniqueness of the newspaper business and to explain how that uniqueness shaped the business values of the editors and proprietors. An examination of three Chicago, Illinois, newspapers--the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Business Responsibility, Content Analysis, Editorials
Kane, Peter E., Ed. – 1981
The 11 articles in this collection deal with theoretical and practical freedom of speech issues. The topics covered are (1) the United States Supreme Court and communication theory; (2) truth, knowledge, and a democratic respect for diversity; (3) denial of freedom of speech in Jock Yablonski's campaign for the presidency of the United Mine…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Bibliographies, Censorship, Civil Liberties
Hachten, William A. – 1979
The role of the black journalist in South Africa is contradictory, precarious, and permeated with politics. There is little freedom of expression for blacks in South Africa, yet white-owned newspapers have expanded their coverage of black news, and some have special editions for black readers. As a result, the English language press is using more…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black Influences, Black Leadership, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Nam, Sunwoo; Oh, Inwhan – 1973
The essential nature of political structures of developing nations appears to generate an opposition to criticism. Since most of the developing nations see no alternative but to regard freedom of the press as an antithesis to industrial development, many such nations suppress press freedom. The relationship between developmental efforts and…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Censorship, Democracy, Developing Nations
Nwankwo, Robert L. – 1973
Editorials in the "West African Pilot", an English-language newspaper published in Lagos, for the years 1945, 1957, 1960, and 1963 (years of crucial importance to Nigeria) were studied to determine the effects of modernity, tradition, fluctuating socioeconomic conditions, and particularly political influences exerted on the press. Each…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Field Studies, Government Role, Information Dissemination
Riley, Wallis H. – 1971
A journalism writing course which trains students in techniques of newsgathering and reporting, emphasizing objectivity, accuracy, clarity, and journalistic style, is described. The objectives of the course include: (1) recognition of nonverbal cues transmitted by a speaker; (2) description of conveyed meanings of emotive language in news articles…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, High School Students, Journalism, Journalism Education
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1992
The Newspapers section of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "News Items in the 'Shrinking Foreign Newshole': The Case of the New York Times" (Daniel Riffe and others); "Newspaper Coverage of Gays and Lesbians: Editors' Views of Its Longterm Effects" (Marilyn Greenwald and Joseph Bernt); "Effects of Staff…
Descriptors: Editorials, Foreign Countries, Headlines, Homosexuality
Jones, Felecia G. – 1986
Between the years of 1916 and 1918 southern blacks began populating the urban centers of the north in a movement known as the "Great Migration." This movement was significant to the development of the black press, for it was during this period that the black press became a protest organ and rose to its greatest level of prominence and…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black History, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Kelly, James D. – 1988
To provide a better understanding of the depictions of countries by the news media, it is necessary to determine whether similar portraits are presented in all types of reporting or whether there are different, or even contradictory, portrayals of foreign countries within individual newspapers considered nationally influential. A study examined…
Descriptors: Bias, Developing Nations, Editorials, Editors
Barwis, Gail L. – 1981
A study examined the coverage of the scientific aspects of the atomic bomb in four representative newspapers (New York "Times," New York "Herald Tribune," Chicago "Daily Tribune," and Boston "Daily Globe") and in 14 general mass circulation magazines in the time period immediately following the dropping of the bomb. Among the conclusions of the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Content Analysis, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
Merriam, Allen H. – 1987
Elijah P. Lovejoy, generally regarded as America's first martyr to freedom of the press, was killed by a racist mob in Alton, Illinois, in November 1837, after a brief but tumultuous career as an crusading antislavery newspaper editor and preacher. Born into a stern Maine Protestant family, he migrated to St. Louis, became a minister, and began…
Descriptors: Biographies, Civil Rights, Community Influence, Editors
Carragee, Kevin M.; Jarrell, Laura – 1987
Given the perspective of news as a significant cultural form, a study examined the symbolic world constructed by American newsmagazines, particularly investigating the dominant media frames (defined as consistent patterns of cognition and selection by which symbol handlers routinely organize discourse) employed by these news organizations. The…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Salwen, Michael B.; Garrison, Bruce – 1988
Although much is known about how governments and major media organizations stand on some world press problems, some important actors in the debate--small- and medium-size newspapers in the United States--have been ignored. The editors of these newspapers are gatekeepers who, like their counterparts on large elite newspapers, play a fundamental…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Editors, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Information
Marsh, Harry D. – 1985
Noting that Hodding Carter, Jr., editor and majority owner of the Greenville, Mississippi, "Delta Democrat-Times," was considered a spokesman of and to the South regarding racial matters during the two decades between the end of World War II and the escalation of the Vietnam war, this monograph examines Carter's newspaper in the two-year…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Content Analysis, Desegregation Effects, Editorials
McIntyre, Jerilyn – 1981
A study examined the news coverage given by the "Industrial Worker" to the San Diego free speech fight of 1912, the last of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union's free speech fights on the West Coast. The "Worker," a publication of the IWW, devoted columns of coverage to that conflict in the form of reports, letters,…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Identification (Psychology), Industrial Personnel, Journalism
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