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Peer reviewedWestmoreland, Reg; And Others – Journalism Quarterly, 1977
A study of news writing styles of male and female college students indicated that some discernible differences in lexical habits do exist between the sexes. (GW)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Females
Peer reviewedBodle, John V. – Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 1996
Finds that in the areas of readability, interest level, and thoroughness, the news in community daily newspapers was not significantly better than that produced by students. (RS)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Journalism Research
Peer reviewedRamsey, Shirley – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1995
Uses content analysis to compare two community newspapers for indices of elaboration identified through various theoretical sources. Traces the relationship of economic development and technological growth to use of elaborative elements in text describing science and technology. Concludes there were strong correlations for breadth and depth in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Economic Development, Journalism Research
Salsini, Paul – 1985
The zone sections of the Milwaukee "Journal" that go to the northeastern suburbs in Milwaukee County were compared with the community papers that originate in those suburbs in order to investigate the use of conflict and consensus news in zone sections. Hypotheses were constructed to test the validity of assumptions that there would be…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Comparative Analysis, Conflict, Content Analysis
Download full textBodle, John V. – 1992
A study compared six midwestern United States campus newspapers with their respective general circulation newspapers. A content analysis of these publications was designed to determine whether local news stories in daily student newspapers are as readable, interesting, and thorough as those found in general circulation daily newspapers. The daily…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Higher Education
Braman, Sandra – 1984
The debate between objective and new journalism centers upon the question of which approach factually depicts reality. Both genres, however, are part of one fact/fiction matrix in which all narrative forms since John Locke have been based upon factuality. The difference between the genres is that new journalism relies upon the sensory data of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Journalism, Media Research
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 2001
The Newspaper section, Part 1 of the proceedings contains the following selected papers: "Gatekeeping and the Editorial Cartoon: A Case Study of the 2000 Presidential Campaign Cartoons" (Jennifer M. Proffitt); "Campaign Contributions: Online Newspapers Go Beyond Shovelware in Covering Election 2000" (Jane B. Singer); "At…
Descriptors: Athletics, Broadcast Television, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
