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ERIC Number: ED258221
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Aug
Pages: 26
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A Profile of U.S. Radio and Television Journalists.
Weaver, David; And Others
A survey was conducted, as part of a larger survey replicating a 1971 national survey of 1,328 journalists, to learn more about the behind-the-scenes editorial personnel in radio and television. A 3-stage sampling plan was used to draw a national sampling of 1,251 journalists, from which telephone interviews were completed with 1,001 for an overall response rate of 80%. Some of the findings, based primarily on 119 radio and 121 television journalists, showed much more similarity between television journalists and daily newspaper journalists than between television and radio journalists, an increase in the proportion of women working in broadcasting since 1971, and little change in the proportion of Blacks and Hispanics employed in radio and television news during the same period of time. Because there exist more similarities than differences between television and daily newspaper journalists, scholars and practitioners of journalism must use great care in categorizing journalists as either print or broadcast. (DF)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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