This article examines the rhetoric of resistance used by South African anti-apartheid journalists to expose the links between the apartheid government and death squads. By utilizing allusions, repetition, and a concept I refer to as "subversive enthymemes," these journalists managed to reveal publicly information about death squad…

Concludes that by distancing themselves from highly competitive but tainted phenomena, newsworkers and their organizations are able to meet their fundamental role obligation to create news while minimizing threats to their professional autonomy. Presents three examples of such attempts. (PD)

Presents the results of an exercise investigating the representation of women in national and regional newspapers. Discovers that stories about women consistently focus on victimization and gender oddities. They also routinely include personal information excluded in stories about men (physical descriptions and familial status). Includes…