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Pasqua, Tom; And Others – Journalism Quarterly, 1975
Two computerized searching techniques each prove to be about 80 percent accurate, thus offering better assistance to reporters searching for background information in newspaper morgues than are currently available. (RB)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Higher Education, Information Storage, Journalism

Starck, Kenneth – Journalism Quarterly, 1974
Finds that the journalist and the public frequently differ on issues regarded as important to the well-being of the press and society. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Journalism, Media Research, News Media

Myers, David S. – Journalism Quarterly, 1974
Results support the hypothesis that foreign affairs issues decided the outcome of the 1972 Presidential election and even in papers which endorsed George McGovern the editorials on foreign affairs favored Richard Nixon. (RB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Editorials, Elections, Higher Education
Towers, Wayne M. – 1987
A study tested the applicability of gratifications research to magazines. Telephone surveys with 543 adults in a large western urban area ascertained their media usages and their agreement with 14 gratifications statements drawn from morphostatic research into the surveillance-diversion-personal identity triad in relation to newspaper and radio.…
Descriptors: Adults, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Need Gratification
Miller, M. Mark; And Others – 1987
In July 1986 the "Knoxville Journal" (a Gannett newspaper) changed its publication time from morning to afternoon and the "Knoxville News-Sentinel" (a Scripps-Howard newspaper) changed from afternoon to morning. One month later, researchers surveyed by telephone 505 newspaper subscribing households to examine reader opinions…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Newspapers
Picard, Robert G. – 1987
The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 makes it possible for competing newspapers to combine advertising, production, circulation and management functions into a single newspaper corporation. For the attorney general and the courts to authorize a joint operating agreement (JOA) for a "failing newspaper," certain conditions must be met…
Descriptors: Competition, Court Litigation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Koski, Steven D.; Kahan, Robert S. – 1987
A study was conducted to determine whether a relationship existed between the agricultural slump of 1924 and the economic vitality of rural weekly newspapers in Missouri. "Rural weekly newspaper" was defined as any weekly newspaper in a predominantly agrarian locale with a city population of fewer than 5,000 and a county population of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Farmers, Media Research, Newspapers
Chao, Edward Yi – 1977
A study examined the treatment of Chinese affairs in four American newspapers during December 1949, when China fell to Communism. Content analyses were conducted on issues of the "New York Times,""The Christian Science Monitor,""The Chicago Tribune," and "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch." Each of the 416…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Relations, Journalism
Giffard, C. Anthony – 1986
A study examined newspaper coverage of the United States' withdrawal from Unesco to determine whether the public was given a balanced picture of the issues involved and to examine the degree of impartiality of the coverage of one specific issue, the New World Information Order. The study analyzed reports that appeared in American daily newspapers…
Descriptors: Bias, Content Analysis, International Relations, Media Research
McCombs, Maxwell E.; And Others – 1988
A study investigated whether three types of journalistic material--news stories, news articles, and news reports--could be reliably distinguished from one another, and whether these genres had differential appeal to audiences. News reports are defined as succinct reports of facts, while news articles represent a more analytic form of reporting,…
Descriptors: Media Research, Newspapers, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Vasquez, Francisco; Eveslage, Thomas – 1983
A study examined the different approaches that daily newspaper and weekly newspaper editors take toward letters to the editor. It was believed that (1) editors of weekly newspapers would regard as more important letters referring to the community positively, while (2) editors of daily newspapers would regard as more important letters dealing with…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Size
Stamm, Keith; Weis, Robert – 1983
Three questions bearing on M. Janowitz's community-integration hypothesis were pursued in a study for which community ties and newspaper subscribing were the focal dimensions. The questions addressed were the following: (1) Are community-church ties positively associated with subscribing to a local church newspaper? (2) Are church ties positively…
Descriptors: Catholics, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Role
Associated Press Managing Editors. – 1983
Intended for newspaper managing editors, this collection includes the following topics and authors: (1) discovering how to reshape newspapers for the video age (Tom Holbein and Deanne Termini); (2) trends that will cause newspapers to change the manner of news collecting and delivery (Tom B. Mauro); (3) solid tips on research (Jenny Fielder); (4)…
Descriptors: Change, Futures (of Society), Journalism, Media Research
Bernstein, James M. – 1985
A study was conducted to determine how readers regard the accountability of newspapers that employ ombudsmen. Subjects were 393 readers of Kentucky's "Louisville Times" and "Courier Journal." Both papers, the first American papers to hire ombudsmen, publicize the existence of the ombudsman in a daily column, and from 1974 to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, Newspapers
McDonald, Daniel G.; Reese, Stephen D. – 1985
A study was conducted to explore whether Fishman and Roslow's concept of adjacent listening could be adapted to studying television viewing behavior and used as an indicator of audience interest and information-seeking behavior. A second hypothesis was that different types of news programs might be preferred by groups reporting primary reliance on…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Media Research, Media Selection, News Media