Examines the accuracy of newspaper headlines as compared with the corresponding story content for four Philadelphia daily newspapers. Results indicate that dailies with the tabloid format had a higher percentage of misleading and ambiguous headlines than the standard papers. (JMF)

Reports on the use of videoscreens at daily newspapers in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Discusses the unchanged role of reporter, the changing role of the editor, and the changing relationship between newsroom staff and the back shop. (JMF)

Reports on the frequency and manner in which various crime and noncrime news topics were presented in selected newspapers and television newscasts in 1976. Examines news flow data to determine whether news output was inflexible, and whether crime news coverage distorted the amount of real-life crime. (PD)

Examines factors within newspaper organizations that affect how hard reporters work in covering campaigns: (1) the influence of organizational structure and (2) the journalist's concept of professionalism. (PD)

Highlights the development of objective news reporting in commercial newspapers and the rise of journalism as a profession, legitimating its major institutional role as the self-announced protector of the public good. (JMF)

Examines three groups of studies that demonstrate what communication research has to say about the relationship between peace and news, between war and the media. Presents a model of five discourses used in the coverage of war and peace in the news media. (MS)

Examines the effects of media coverage of biomedical innovations, such as industrial recombinant DNA, on public opinion and public awareness of scientific events. (JMF)