Presents a typology of southern United States periodicals by type, date, and place. Finds that southern periodicals from the period 1764-1984 show a culture that was diverse, sophisticated, and changing. (RS)

Proposes that journalism education in general has been drifting in a strong research current for some years and is at present uncertain how to treat growing opposition by professional journalists to such a research emphasis. (RL)

Surveys recent books and articles severely critical of higher education and of college professors. Points out implications for mass communications professors. (SR)

Lists some of the jargon adapted to journalism and media research from the social sciences and behavioral science research. (RB)

Reveals that most regional magazines published in the southern United States were begun after 1970. Notes that most publishers do not expect the number of such magazines to increase. (FL)

Explains a new concept in master's degree programs for students who are professionally oriented. (RB)

Author gives a complete guide for marking student reports that frustrate the grader by a lack of obvious mistakes. (GB)

Federal and state law provides, for the most part, little specific guidance to persons tape recording their own telephone calls for their own record-keeping purposes. In a specific case, a Pennsylvania newsman was prosecuted in 1972 on charges of wiretapping his own telephone conversations without notice to the other parties in the calls. A review…

Concludes that while mechanisms exist to enable news media defendants to file countersuits in nuisance and trivial suits, recent cases in the medical field indicate that the likelihood of success is slight. (FL)

Reviews the history of the oldest newspaper in Oklahoma which was founded in 1876 to reflect Indian society and concerns. (FL)