Factor analysis of responses of newspaper editors and broadcast news directors reveals professionalism as the dominant factor. (KS)

Reporters with little bias--"low participants"--produced the fairest and most accurate, objective, and comprehensive stories about John Dean. (KS)

Subjects perceived the increase in message length as an increase in importance of content. (KS)

Application of Shneidman categories of logical structure to network newscast coverage was shown feasible in this study of the 1972 presidential campaign. (KS)

Reports that the Supreme Court has dealt with related issues, but not specifically with rights of prison presses. (FL)

Investigates recent developments in the right to access by analyzing three Supreme Court decisions, as well as several relevant cases in federal appellate courts. (FL)

Looks at the life of the reporter, novelist, foreign correspondent, and feature writer who lived from 1867 to 1911. Places him in the center of various important journalistic movements and in the company of important figures in journalism history. (FL)

Notes that the influential periodical has shifted its emphasis from informative articles to theoretical ones and has become more parochial and less cosmopolitan. (FL)

Presents a case study to illustrate how journalists, trained in a paradigm-based field, participate in the production or "repair" of routine news. Calls for scholarly attention to this news reconstruction process that may provoke reform within journalism schools. (PD)

Explores the circumstances under which tort liability can be imposed for secretly recording a conversation or for publishing the contents of one which was surreptitiously recorded. (FL)

Compares predicted motivation profiles for several newspaper management jobs to the actual profiles of men and women holding those jobs. Finds an above average need for power and a below average need for achievement in managers. (FL)

Traces the evolution of the actual malice standard from a l884 Kansas court decision to the l964 decision in "'New York Times' v. Sullivan." (FL)

Analyzes news stories over a 30-year period to determine the extent of criticism of Mexican government officials by the press in that country. Concludes that cabinet ministers receive more criticism than the president, but that criticism of the latter is increasing. (FL)

Concludes that the amount of newspaper space given to the 1980 presidential campaign was less than that for any of the campaigns of the 1960s. Finds also that candidate John Anderson received less coverage than did George Wallace in 1968. (FL)

Concludes that the increased "borrowing" of news from foreign news agencies may not be due to the declining number of United States foreign correspondents but to Third World restrictions on access to news. (FL)