The activities of the photography staff at three metropolitan newspapers were observed to identify those routines used in making photographic assignments, carrying them out, and selecting the best photographs for publication. Among the observations were the following: (1) assignments could originate from any "desk" or editorial…

Going beyond the loosely defined but evocative ideas of previous research linking newspaper readership with ties to the local community, the two studies described in this report carefully distinguish between readers' sense of identification and their actual involvement in the community. The first study discussed in the report examines the impact…

Analyzes the amount of space six American and four European newspapers give to local, national, and international news. Concludes that all of the newspapers have a localized point of view, but that each displays significant differences in the components and scale of localization. (FL)

Reports that newspaper readers rated precision journalism articles no better than traditional news articles on several dimensions of credibility. (FL)

Shows that two competing daily newspapers mirror each other in the inaccuracies perceived by persons mentioned in local news stories. (KS)

Discovers that religion stories tend to be longer, broader in scope, and more issue oriented than they once were. (FL)

Concludes that large newspapers give more coverage to robust Presidents. (FL)

Reveals that independent international gazettes provided coverage of major crises and had an important impact on the events of the late eighteenth century in Europe. (FL)

Newspaper editors in two Ohio communities cooperated in a counterbalanced design field experiment to test whether proportions of news items in seven content areas transmitted by wire services served to cue editors as to proportions that should be selected from each category. (FL)

Reports that more than a third of the 437 newspapers surveyed revealed that they have used polls to gather information for news stories and that most did so for the first time in the last decade. (Author/FL)

Reports the response of the German press to the threat of Nazism during the 1920s and early 1930s prior to Hitler's rise to power. (RB)

Concludes that the typical environmental reporter is a journalism graduate and experienced newsman, but has a minimal background in the related sciences. (RB)

Study finds a lower accuracy and higher error rate for science news coverage than for earlier studies of regular news coverage. (RB)