Examines how corrections are handled for both daily and weekly Arkansas newspapers. Finds that, although most papers publish corrections, less than one fourth have written correction policies. (RS)

Reports the findings of a survey of newspaper editors and managing editors concerning their views on accuracy in news reporting. (Author/GW)

Concludes that public relations people view editors' newspaper positions fairly accurately but that the reverse is not true. (FL)

Details a study showing that copyeditors working on newspapers that have had video display terminals for at least two years edited more slowly, but made fewer errors than those who edited on paper. (FL)

Finds high usage of wire service stories by radio but refutes charges that the radio news is read straight off the wire without editing. (RB)

Describes the career of America's first woman journalist, who was the editor and manager of the "South Carolina Gazette" from 1739 to 1746. (KS)

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)

Reports that the New York "Times" and the Washington "Post" correct relatively few mistakes and that most corrections are of objective mistakes. (FL)

Tells how data from readership surveys have been combined to create a decision model that provides newspaper editors with a systematic procedure for evaluating standard newspaper features; reports on a study that examined one set of subjective decisions a researcher is faced with when using the decision model. (GT)

Describes the disillusionment of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon who edited a Kansas daily newspaper for one week as Jesus Christ would have done it and unwittingly became the victim of the newspaper publisher's money-making scheme. (RB)

Tells how Duff Green obtained editorial and financial control of the "United States' Telegraph"--the primary organ for promoting the 1828 election campaign of Andrew Jackson--and how he expanded the role of partisan journalism. (GW)

College students' subjective evaluations of newspaper articles became increasingly negative as errors of logic, word use, and omission increased. (FL)