Reports that residents of a midwestern community perceived local newspapers to be fairer than newspapers in general but that their attitudes were affected by structural factors. (FL)

This replication of a 1968 study confirms that there are uniform patterns of campaign coverage practiced by daily newspapers, regardless of partisan orientation or other differences among the papers or their audiences. (Author/RB)

Presents a study of the amount of air-time black-oriented radio stations devote to news and public service broadcasting. (TO)

Reports that the New York "Times" and the Washington "Post" correct relatively few mistakes and that most corrections are of objective mistakes. (FL)

Concludes that reporters desire more participation in decision making than editors want them to have. (FL)

Reports that middle-level Chinese government officials are given almost verbatim translations of selected news stories and commentary from around the world in a publication called "News for Reference," which is widely distributed in China by the Hsinhua news agency. (FL)

Reports that criticism of news and editors dates back to before the first daily newspaper appeared in 1660. (FL)

Concludes that United States press coverage of the Quebec separatism referendum concentrated on the results and on constitutional reform rather than on the background aspects of the issue. (FL)

Concludes that Canadian newspapers serving a specific geographic area or region exhibit many similarities. (FL)

Summarizes research dealing with: (1) the first daily newspaper in English, (2) ownership trends in cable television, (3) how women's magazines cover living alone, (4) city/regional magazines, (5) developing criteria for a farm magazine, and (6) media coverage of political events and issues. (FL)

Reports the findings of a nationwide survey of newspaper editors, revealing that most thought that the Janet Cooke hoax had been poorly handled by the "Washington Post." Notes that most of the editors said their newspapers had systems of review for stories coming from anonymous sources. (FL)

Analyzes business news coverage by three major daily newspapers in the United States and concludes that they now emphasize the stock market less and international business more than they did in 1931. (FL)

An analysis of the coverage given to foreign industrial disputes in "Time" and "Newsweek" from 1966 to 1973 reveals that a nonlinear relationship exists between the number of times an event occurs and the amount of coverage it receives. (FL)

Factor analysis of 50 editors' responses to a questionnaire eliciting information about objectivity found general agreement on the subject but clear differences of emphasis on various aspects of it. (FL)

An analysis of three newspapers' coverage during the last four weeks of the 1968 and 1976 presidential campaigns indicates that in 1976 there was a higher proportion of attention given to issues and to candidates' personal qualities than to the campaign as a dramatic contest, and a decrease in total campaign coverage. (GT)