Shows evidence of media leadership of audience behavior that is consistent with the direction of coverage of a community controversy. (FL)

Case studies of a wire service bureau and a radio station revealed that information overload had less effect than anticipated on news processing procedures. (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)

Details a study showing that government sources in the United States are less credible than they were shown to be in a study conducted 19 years ago. (Author/FL)

A study of daily newspapers in 19 major cities indicates that Black government officials get slightly more news coverage but that that coverage is slightly less favorable than coverage of White officials. (Author/FL)

Found a clear and significant preference for photographs of men in waist, close-up, and full-length shots and of women in bust, waist, and three-quarter shots. (FL)

The paper identifies theoretical constructs and shows their application from 1955-1980 in media developments for teaching hearing impaired students. Changes are traced to such events as technological developments, social forces, and the advent of new theories, including behaviorism. (CL)

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)

This study showed that for college students, both on-camera authority/model figures and dramatizations can be effective for promoting affective learning via televised instruction. It also confirmed the importance of considering interactions between presentation method, learning characteristics, and subject matter. (Author/JEG)

Reports that public service advertising attributed to the Advertising Council elicited higher message ratings than did public service advertising attributed to a commercial source, a noncommercial source, or no source; however, it produced the lowest behavioral responses. (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)