Campaign workers paid significantly greater heed to both newspaper and television advertising of political candidates than did the voting public. (RB)

Thirty-six newspapers under joint printing agreements were analyzed for space allocation of ten different news categories, indicating no evidence of pressures to effect content. (RB)

Concludes that Nepal's press shows more concern with domestic issues and uses a greater variety of news sources during a period of relative freedom. (FL)

Concludes that the representation of the elderly in Israeli newspapers is consistent with their proportion in the population, but that the way they are portrayed tends to support stereotypes. (FL)

Interviews with ombudsmen at 18 of the 22 United States daily newspapers that have ombudsmen programs reveal that programs were created for a variety of reasons: to raise the confidence of the reading public in newspapers, to help readers understand the intricacies involved in creating and maintaining the press, and to provide access to the press…

Concludes that while news about the Third World is not underemphasized in the "New York Times" and the "Chicago Tribune," negative news is played up more in both than is news from other areas. (FL)

Reports that while "personalism"/surveillance and competence/trust ratings predict user satisfaction with newspapers, bias ratings do not. (FL)

Results of a survey of 359 editors of nondaily newspapers indicates that most nondaily editors see their editorials and editorial pages as important segments of their newspapers and believe they can use them to help influence readers, particularly on local issues. (Author/GT)

Describes how Uganda's newspaper industry started slowly in the early twentieth century, expanded rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and then declined; notes that by 1976 only 14 of 84 newspapers established over a period of 79 years still existed. Provides information about each newspaper published between 1900 and 1976. (GT)

Reports that during the week of the 1979 crisis at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the "New York Post" gave less factual information than "The New York Times" in both its main headlines and subheadlines; also notes that the information the "Post" did give was more sensationalized. (GT)

Reports that editors and readers could agree on "worst" newspapers, but concludes that editors may not share reader criteria concerning what constitutes the "best" journalistic product. (RL)

Concludes that there are two subgroups in the newspaper nonreader population: typical nonreaders (the young, old, poor, and undereducated) and atypical nonreaders (middle-aged, upper income, highly educated adults who ignore the daily newspaper because of lack of time and dissatisfaction with content). (GT)

Notes that the percentage of daily newspapers that also produce a weekly or semiweekly edition has dwindled since 1876; outlines reasons for the continuance of the approximately 50 daily-weekly combinations in existence in 1978. (GT)

A study of the accuracy of news stories in ten professional newspapers and a university newspaper provided data on many aspects of accuracy and revealed that the student newspaper had more than twice as many errors per story, and a much higher percentage of factual errors, than did the professional newspapers. (GT)