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Singletary, Michael – 1980
This report provides a review of literature exploring accuracy in newspaper stories. The findings discussed do not reveal definite reasons for inaccuracy, but several possible error sources are delineated: amount of reporter involvement, type of news, psychological factors (stress, news reporters' fantasies, open/closed-mindedness, tendency to…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Evaluation, Journalism, Literature Reviews
Fico, Frederick – 1980
Employing a "resource dependency" model from organizational theory, this paper explains the growth of newspaper cooperation out of publisher competition in Chicago (Illinois) journalism during the period 1880 to 1910. It suggests that publisher cooperation in business matters also resulted in a changed news coverage style and emphasis. It argues…
Descriptors: Competition, Content Analysis, Cooperation, Journalism
Wingrove, Kendall – 1980
Three frontier newspapers in Michigan for the period July 1849 to July 1850 were analyzed to determine how women were depicted in the press of that time. The research concentrated on coverage in six areas: courtship and marriage; the role of women as wives and mothers; women depicted in literature; famous women; women's rights in the home, on the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Females, Feminism, Journalism
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Wilhoit, G. Cleveland; Weaver, David H. – 1977
This study uses natural data, primarily, to study patterns of news coverage of the United States Senate in major media of regional and national stature. The following questions are addressed: To what extent do institutional and structural aspects of the Senate (seniority, committee assignment, and senatorial staff size) affect the news potential…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Government (Administrative Body), Institutional Research, Media Research
Stone, Gerald; Hartung, Barbara W. – 1979
A two-part study was designed to measure the amount of good news and bad news in newspapers and to measure readers' recall of stories that represented good news and bad news. The stories used in the study appeared on the front pages and on one of the inside pages of eight California newspapers during October 1978. A total of 559 telephone…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Journalism, Media Research, News Reporting
Whittaker, Susan McDargh – 1975
The assumption, which has influenced broadcast news reporting hiring practices, that women broadcasters are not as believable, acceptable, or effective as men broadcasters is explored in this research report. Four network newscasters, two males and two females chosen on the basis of similar professional competency and stature audio tape in…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Credibility, Journalism, Media Research
Knudson, Jerry – 1974
This paper examines treatment by the U.S. press of the Mexican, Cuban, and Chilean revolutions from a historical perspective, both using original research and synthesizing the research of others. On balance, the U.S. media have reported or commented on Latin American social revolutions mainly by exploiting sensation and ridicule. Economic…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Communications, Journalism, Media Research
Culbertson, Hugh M. – 1975
In recent years, increasing concern with newspaper accuracy and credibility has led some people to question whether newspapers should use veiled, non-specific, attributions in news reporting. This study contains a content analysis of a sample of newspapers to determine the frequency and nature of veiled attributions as they are now employed. The…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Credibility, Higher Education, Journalism
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Endres, Kathleen L. – Journalism Quarterly, 1976
The median salary for women reporters is 52 percent of that for men. (RB)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Journalism, Males
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Becker, Lee B.; And Others – Journalism Quarterly, 1978
Reports findings of surveys of people's evaluations of press behavior during the Watergate period; concludes that the most important determinants of press criticism were in support of Nixon, party affiliation, and ideology. (GW)
Descriptors: Media Research, Negative Attitudes, News Media, News Reporting
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Orwant, Jack E.; Cantor, Muriel G. – Journalism Quarterly, 1977
Both male and female student ratings of audience interest in various types of news clearly reflected sex-role stereotyping. (KS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Mass Media, Media Research, News Reporting
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Tankard, James W.; Showalter, Stuart W. – Journalism Quarterly, 1977
Although the coverage that the press gave of the Surgeon General's report on television and social behavior was confused and indefinite, few papers ran follow-up stories that might have explained the ambiguity. (KS)
Descriptors: Media Research, News Media, News Reporting, Newspapers
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McNelly, John T.; Izcaray, Fausto – Journalism Quarterly, 1986
Concludes that exposure to mass media is associated with relatively positive, if not well-informed, images of foreign countries and to a perception of them as being successful. (FL)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Effects, Media Research
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Canino, Glorisa J.; Huston, Aletha C. – Journalism Quarterly, 1986
Discovers that the content of broadcast news in Puerto Rico is similar to that in the United States, with political and government stories commanding a relatively large amount of news time. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, News Media
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Izard, Ralph S. – Journalism Quarterly, 1985
Concludes that the public's negative attitude toward the news media is beginning to mellow. (FL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Journalism, Mass Media Effects
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