Examines the news values professional photographers bring to their assignments. Concludes that timeliness is the most important news element of award-winning photographs. Reports also that the vast majority of award-winning pictures were of accidents, disasters, crimes, or violence. (FL)

Suggests that while endorsements seem to sway a few voters, the effect is so small that such endorsements are unlikely to influence the outcome of an election. (FL)

Describes how research published in periodicals can provide journalism instructors with instructional resources. (RB)

Describes a survey of news sources' judgments of three television stations' accuracy in reporting. (KS)

Uses Q-analysis to study the motives that reporters and mass communication students bring to the resolution of ethical issues. Finds that most were "mainstream" ethicists, whose ethical concerns centered on credibility, their personal sense of morality, the public's need to know, and the standards of their field and their employer. (SR)

Analyzes the questionnaire responses of 84 writers of letters to the editors of nondaily newspapers, which provided information on such areas as number of newspapers written to, topics addressed by the letters, reasons for writing letters, and writers' individual characteristics. (GT)

Reports that coders were able to judge adequately the difference between immediate reward and delayed reward in news stories but not the difference between subcategories. (FL)

Relates measures of the central-peripheral dimension of the belief system and measures of attitude toward music and radio. Supports the idea that radio audiences constitute subcultures whose members use radio music for validating personal identity, and suggests that such use is related to a person's belief system. (RAE)

Reports on an analysis of front page photographs in six major newspapers in 1936, 1956, and 1976; the study examined photographs with respect to size, subject, source, location on the page, racial and sex composition, and whether accompanied by an article. (GW)