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Hachten, William A. – 1979
The role of the black journalist in South Africa is contradictory, precarious, and permeated with politics. There is little freedom of expression for blacks in South Africa, yet white-owned newspapers have expanded their coverage of black news, and some have special editions for black readers. As a result, the English language press is using more…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black Influences, Black Leadership, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Nwankwo, Robert L. – 1973
Editorials in the "West African Pilot", an English-language newspaper published in Lagos, for the years 1945, 1957, 1960, and 1963 (years of crucial importance to Nigeria) were studied to determine the effects of modernity, tradition, fluctuating socioeconomic conditions, and particularly political influences exerted on the press. Each…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Field Studies, Government Role, Information Dissemination
Riley, Wallis H. – 1971
A journalism writing course which trains students in techniques of newsgathering and reporting, emphasizing objectivity, accuracy, clarity, and journalistic style, is described. The objectives of the course include: (1) recognition of nonverbal cues transmitted by a speaker; (2) description of conveyed meanings of emotive language in news articles…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, High School Students, Journalism, Journalism Education
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1992
The Newspapers section of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "News Items in the 'Shrinking Foreign Newshole': The Case of the New York Times" (Daniel Riffe and others); "Newspaper Coverage of Gays and Lesbians: Editors' Views of Its Longterm Effects" (Marilyn Greenwald and Joseph Bernt); "Effects of Staff…
Descriptors: Editorials, Foreign Countries, Headlines, Homosexuality
Jones, Felecia G. – 1986
Between the years of 1916 and 1918 southern blacks began populating the urban centers of the north in a movement known as the "Great Migration." This movement was significant to the development of the black press, for it was during this period that the black press became a protest organ and rose to its greatest level of prominence and…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Black History, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Kelly, James D. – 1988
To provide a better understanding of the depictions of countries by the news media, it is necessary to determine whether similar portraits are presented in all types of reporting or whether there are different, or even contradictory, portrayals of foreign countries within individual newspapers considered nationally influential. A study examined…
Descriptors: Bias, Developing Nations, Editorials, Editors
Barwis, Gail L. – 1981
A study examined the coverage of the scientific aspects of the atomic bomb in four representative newspapers (New York "Times," New York "Herald Tribune," Chicago "Daily Tribune," and Boston "Daily Globe") and in 14 general mass circulation magazines in the time period immediately following the dropping of the bomb. Among the conclusions of the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Content Analysis, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
Atlantic Information Centre for Teachers, London (England). – 1973
This Crisis Paper is thirty-third in a series which expands the analysis of the crisis under discussion to provide a multi-national view of the issue by quoting comment from a selection of newspapers and journals of several countries. A brief introduction outlines the history and background of the energy crisis, emphasizing the underestimated…
Descriptors: Course Content, Current Events, Economic Climate, Energy
Kent, Kurt – 1973
Based on the assumption that newspapers mirror the conceptions of economic development among major groups in society and that analysis of their content may aid in the clarification of group viewpoints, two dimensions along which groups might differ with respect to their conceptions of economic development issues were postulated: the need for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Schemes, Content Analysis, Economic Development
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Hahn, Dan F. – Communication Quarterly, 1987
Notes that relationships between the media and the presidency have been written about extensively, yet some conclusions have been misapplied and overvalued, while other potential conclusions have been overlooked or denied. Presents 10 propositions providing corrective hypotheses and new focus for presidential communication researchers. (SKC)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Media Research, News Media
Merriam, Allen H. – 1987
Elijah P. Lovejoy, generally regarded as America's first martyr to freedom of the press, was killed by a racist mob in Alton, Illinois, in November 1837, after a brief but tumultuous career as an crusading antislavery newspaper editor and preacher. Born into a stern Maine Protestant family, he migrated to St. Louis, became a minister, and began…
Descriptors: Biographies, Civil Rights, Community Influence, Editors
Salwen, Michael B.; Garrison, Bruce – 1988
Although much is known about how governments and major media organizations stand on some world press problems, some important actors in the debate--small- and medium-size newspapers in the United States--have been ignored. The editors of these newspapers are gatekeepers who, like their counterparts on large elite newspapers, play a fundamental…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Editors, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Information
Marsh, Harry D. – 1985
Noting that Hodding Carter, Jr., editor and majority owner of the Greenville, Mississippi, "Delta Democrat-Times," was considered a spokesman of and to the South regarding racial matters during the two decades between the end of World War II and the escalation of the Vietnam war, this monograph examines Carter's newspaper in the two-year…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Content Analysis, Desegregation Effects, Editorials
McIntyre, Jerilyn – 1981
A study examined the news coverage given by the "Industrial Worker" to the San Diego free speech fight of 1912, the last of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union's free speech fights on the West Coast. The "Worker," a publication of the IWW, devoted columns of coverage to that conflict in the form of reports, letters,…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Identification (Psychology), Industrial Personnel, Journalism
Gutierrez, Felix – 1978
Coverage of Chicanos by the news media, almost nonexistent until the mid-1960s, still has not achieved full balance or objectivity. It is important for media personnel to develop greater competence in handling Chicano coverage since the Latino group, of which Chicanos are the largest segment, are the nation's fastest growing population group…
Descriptors: Bias, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Stereotypes, Illegal Immigrants
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