A study reviewed coverage in 13 newspapers during 1989 of the issue of spraying the pesticide Alar on apples. Using VU/TEXT, a newspaper database, 297 articles in 13 newspapers that included the specified code words "Alar" with or without "apple" or "apples" were retrieved and analyzed using a 33-question coding…

Finds high usage of wire service stories by radio but refutes charges that the radio news is read straight off the wire without editing. (RB)

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

Analyzes the interviewing methods of reporter Fallaci and finds that she asks tough questions from a subjective perspective. (FL)

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

Concludes that the actual malice test emerging from the "Times v. Sullivan" decision is inadequate protection against the threat of seditious libel. (FL)

Examines the life of Englishman Emerson, explains why he has been neglected, and shows that his work is antecedent to photojournalism. (FL)

Reveals that 16 percent of stories carried on the United Press International A wire (which carries stories of national interest) were about women, and of these, 89 percent were hard news stories. (FL)

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

Reports that, overall, 80 percent of the national and international stories in "Time" and "Newsweek" contain anonymous attribution. (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 that the position in a news story of biasing information about a robbery suspect had little effect on judgments of the suspect's innocence or guilt. (GT)