Secondary analysis of 1971 and 1977 surveys by the Newspaper Advertising Bureau suggests that newspaper editors underestimate public interest in sicence news. (GT)

Concludes that the only significant factors explaining the amount of political news published by the Arkansas daily press during the 1972 senatorial primary election campaign were the size of the daily news hole and the number of wire services a newspaper used. (GT)

Investigates the relationship between education and knowledge of energy issues. Finds some evidence of such a relationship, especially among the more educated readers of newspaper energy stories. Finds some tendency for an initial knowledge gap--the more educated seem to learn more than the less educated at first. Notes that the difference…

Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports…

Market data in 34 different markets around the country provided the background for a comparison of newspaper subscribers and nonsubscribers. Essentially the market reports provided information on what kinds of people subscribe to a newspaper and why. Among the findings are the following: (1) subscribers tend to be older, to have higher incomes,…

Choosing six Mexican newspapers representing an ideological range from liberal to conservative, a study analyzed the content of the newspapers' editorials and political columns from 1951 through 1980. Data established that Mexican newspapers, contrary to many critics' judgments, criticized government policies and political figures. They did,…

Concludes that the freedom granted to Arab newspapers under Israeli occupation serves the interests of both the Israelis and the Palestinian populace. (RB)

Concludes that changes in the makeup of the Chinese community in New York city are now being reflected in the contents of the daily newspapers written in Chinese. (RB)

Concludes that with short news stories presented in modern style repetition is equally as important to the broadcast journalist as to the newspaper journalist. (RB)

Describes a method for determining the accuracy of science news coverage. (RB)

Finds more nonreaders of newspapers than a study done ten years ago, but the background of the nonreaders are highly similar. (RB)

Concludes that with several exceptions that there was no bias on the part of the news media in covering the 1972 election campaign. (RB)

Describes the philosophy and practices of the newspapers published in the Pacific Islands. (RB)

Results of two studies indicate that word messages carry more impact than pictures and an analysis of variance reveals that iconicity and sensationalism each related positively to both evaluative-ethical and interest-vitality ratings. (RB)

A longitudinal study sought to determine whether American newspapers shifted from foreign to domestic news content at the end of the War of 1812, as journalism historians traditionally believe, or if the shift in fact occurred before then as a result of a heightened American self-consciousness. A sample was drawn from newspapers from 1808 through…