The theoretical perspective presented in this monograph is intended to answer two fundamental questions: What accounts for the input of the gatekeeping institution in the newsroom? and What accounts for the output of the gatekeeping institution? The organizational role of gatekeeper is to monitor incoming information for its news content; to…

Lists and annotates articles dealing with such topics as advertising, audience analysis, broadcasting, criticism and defense of media, editorial policy and methods, journalism history, journalism education, magazines, media management, and press law. (GW)

A staff paper to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy examines the feasibility of a domestic communications satellite system. Although, with expected technological advancement, satellites may play a significant role in domestic transmission and are economically feasible right now, a number of remaining questions make the…

In this document separate articles deal with the following topics: recommendations for future British broadcasting policies that recently were proposed to the British Parliament by the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting; specific media goals set by the Swedish Committee on Broadcasting; communications policy making in Austria; a new…

One section of this journal is devoted to issues involving broadcast satellites. Separate articles discuss the need for international planning of satellite broadcasting, decisions made at the 1971 World Administrative Radio Conference for Space Telecommunications, potential problems in satellite broadcasting, a series of proposals drawn up by the…