Indicates that readers were in substantial agreement on their impressions of the subjects of news stories, as were other readers who viewed only the mugshots associated with those stories. Finds that these judgments correlated significantly with one another. (JD)

Concludes that large newspapers give more coverage to robust Presidents. (FL)

Reveals that independent international gazettes provided coverage of major crises and had an important impact on the events of the late eighteenth century in Europe. (FL)

Concludes that, while group ownership of newspapers and television stations continues to grow, common ownership of a station and a newspaper in the same market is declining. (FL)

Finds 12 to 15 reader interest clusters across newspaper markets. (FL)

Newspaper editors in two Ohio communities cooperated in a counterbalanced design field experiment to test whether proportions of news items in seven content areas transmitted by wire services served to cue editors as to proportions that should be selected from each category. (FL)

Concludes that supermarket tabloid readers are not one homogeneous group with one set of needs and wants from newspapers. (FL)

Reports that changing the cutlines of 22 controversial photographs significantly affected the response of readers for only four of the pictures. (FL)

Finds that the "settling loop" characterized by home buying affects newspaper subscription rates. (FL)

Reports the findings of a survey conducted to determine the level of understanding of the news business by the general public in a midwestern community. Concludes that the respondents knew more about television news than about newspapers. (FL)

Reports that more than a third of the 437 newspapers surveyed revealed that they have used polls to gather information for news stories and that most did so for the first time in the last decade. (Author/FL)

Reports on a study that sought to determine the point of diminishing returns in newspaper per-copy price increases. Concludes that, at a time when 15 cents was the most common price, an increase to 20 cents would have produced more revenue, but an increase to 25 cents would not. (FL)

Concludes that choice of lifestyle is related to reading interests but that newspapers are of little importance to persons in each of the four lifestyles identified. (FL)

Reports the results of an analysis of appearance characteristics of a sample of joint ownership newspapers, which yielded information about factors related to the adoption of modern newspaper design. (GT)

Reports that a majority of the 208 newspaper-sponsored magazines in the United States and Canada depend on freelance submissions to fill their pages. (GT)