Fifty-two percent of the magazine editors responding to a random-sample survey indicated that their publications still buy free-lance material. (Author)

Contains the results of a national survey on journalism enrollments and predicts that journalism enrollments will increase at a rate faster than all other college and university enrollments combined. (RB)

Finds that editors and advisors of high school newspapers agreed that only limited self-censorship was being practiced. Reports on the extent to which the advisors' journalism training and advising experience related to the amount of self-censorship as well as censorship reported. (SR)

Discusses the results of an informal survey done among editors of weekly newspapers. (RB)

Surveys newspaper editors finding that editors with journalism degrees are more favorably predisposed toward journalism programs--in positive attitudes, in stated preference for hiring journalism majors, as well as in actual hiring practices--than those without. (SR)

Presents findings from an annual enrollment survey of U.S. journalism and mass communication programs (conducted since 1968), on enrollment and degrees, curricular specialization, gender and race, and institutional differences. (SR)

Surveys 308 television news directors. Finds that 83.4% of respondents would like some formal management training if they could afford the time. Discusses three fundamental elements that should be included in such graduate programs for midcareer professionals. (SR)

Compares the attributes which news executives and journalism educators find desirable in reporters, finding considerable agreement in the areas of knowledge, abilities, and skills. (RB)

Presents the results of a survey among 135 undergraduate journalism or communications programs on enrollment trends in 47 states and the District of Columbia. (RB)

Shows that 91 percent of 200 students from 40 accredited universities earned 15 semester hours or more in at least one discipline in addition to journalism. (RB)

Presents an annual analysis of journalism school enrollments, comparing total enrollments reported for a given year with the total survey results obtained in the previous years. (RL)

Presents specific criteria on acceptable grant proposals from people who review proposals in mass communication research. Discusses types of studies proposed, types of studies desired, common strengths, other criteria, and recommendations. (SR)

Identifies and compares the perceived educational needs of advertising and public relations practitioners. Explores differences between practitioners in small versus large markets, and assesses practitioners' beliefs about integrated marketing communications (the merger of advertising and public relations under a single organizational unit). (SR)

Traces the increasing use of databases and computerized records of government agencies in newsrooms during the 1980s. Reports on a national survey showing that most journalism education programs do not prepare students to use these rich sources of information now routinely used in the newsroom. (SR)